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December 2, 2020

Background: Russia and Japan have jockeyed for power in the northwestern Pacific for more than a century. The two countries never even signed a peace treaty after Japan’s defeat in World War II (though they did formally declare an end to a state of war in 1956). The main point of contention is continued Russian […]

Daily Memo: US Tariffs on Chinese Goods, Russian Weapons in the Kurils

December 2, 2020

U.S. tariffs. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that he won’t quickly do away with U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods – and rather that...

Russia Considers a New Economic Model

December 2, 2020

The flaws in Russia’s economy might be too deep to gloss over. At an annual civil forum in Moscow on Saturday, Alexei Kudrin, the...

Daily Memo: US Liquidity, Chinese Manufacturing

December 1, 2020

U.S. liquidity. The U.S. Federal Reserve will extend until March 31 four emergency liquidity programs that were set to expire at the end of...

The Utility and Morality of Assassination

December 1, 2020

The head of the Iranian nuclear weapons program was killed Friday near Tehran. The assumption is that he was killed by the Israelis, whose...

Brief: Havana’s Rare Concession to Protesters

November 30, 2020

Background: For Washington, Cuba’s proximity to the United States and location at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico makes it a strategically important...

Daily Memo: Mediterranean Drills Begin, Russian Pipeline Construction to Resume

November 30, 2020

Training in the Med. Naval and air exercises dubbed MEDUSA 2020 involving Greece, Cyprus and Egypt began on Monday in the Mediterranean Sea off...

The Geopolitics of Vaccine Distribution

November 30, 2020

The American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, in collaboration with German firm BioNTech, surprised the world when it announced that its coronavirus vaccine showed 90 percent...

Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni Apartheid

November 27, 2020

Like many other countries of the Middle East, Bahrain has been repeatedly conquered by foreign invaders, including the Abbasids, Jarwinids, Omanis, Persians and Portuguese....

Daily Memo: Russia’s Missile Test, Concerns Over Central Asia

November 25, 2020

Conspicuous missile test. Russia’s newest naval corvette for the first time test-launched a cruise missile at a naval target in the Peter the Great...

Daily Memo: US Activity in the Asia-Pacific

November 24, 2020

Washington bears gifts to Manila. During a visit to the Philippines, U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien announced the formal transfer of an $18...