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Daily Memo: Quad Leaders’ Summit, Russian Grain Exports

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Quad summit. Leaders from the four members of the Quad security grouping – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – said they would oppose attempts to “change the status quo by force” in the Indo-Pacific during a summit in Tokyo on Tuesday. Though their joint statement following the meeting avoided referencing China and Russia […]

Daily Memo: Fallout From the Bucha Killings

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Fallout from Bucha killings. Ukrainian authorities on Saturday released photos and videos showing corpses lying on the streets of the town of Bucha near...

Daily Memo: Top Diplomats Visit India

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Lavrov in India. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in India on Thursday for a two-day trip. Prior to the visit, India was...

Daily Memo: More Talks on Ukraine, Europe’s Energy Plans

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Russia-Ukraine talks. The Russian military said on Monday it would open humanitarian corridors in four Ukrainian cities – Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkov and Sumy –...

Daily Memo: Reactions to Russia’s Move on Ukraine

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Escalation. Early Thursday morning local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass. He said the Russian armed forces would...

New Political Strategies in a New Economic Order

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At several debates I’ve attended since the beginning of the year – and in several responses I’ve received from readers – one question is...

The World in 2022

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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,” Winston Churchill once quipped. Predicating expectations of the future on an understanding...

Daily Memo: Kazakhstan Unrest Spreads, North Korea Tests a Missile

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Kazakhstan on fire. With the internet in Kazakhstan shut down, reliable news is hard to come by, but here’s what we know. Unrest that...

Globalization After the Pandemic

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We enter 2022 with the same hope that we had as we entered 2021: that the pandemic will end soon. This time, we will...

2021 Year-End Review

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(click to enlarge) Scale: Hit, Partial Hit, Inconclusive, Partial Miss, Miss Global The defining feature of 2021 will be insularity. Countries will simply be too consumed with...

Daily Memo: Bad Economic Signals From Germany, Mercenaries Moving in Africa

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German downturn. Germany’s closely watched Ifo business confidence index fell in December for the sixth consecutive month amid COVID-19 uncertainty, supply chain bottlenecks and...

Daily Memo: European Powder Kegs, North American Trade Disputes

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Appeal for calm. Foreign ministers from the leading industrial nations of the G-7 called on Russia to de-escalate military tensions on the border with...
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