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China’s Modernization Plan: The Blueprint and the Backlash
“Made in China 2025” promises to help Beijing dominate the high-tech world, but it has raised suspicions in the West.
Tracing the Origins of Venezuela’s Crisis
The country’s current predicament was centuries in the making.
Gulen Revisited
The U.S. reportedly wants to trade an exiled cleric for better relations with Turkey.
India’s Own String of Pearls
New Delhi is boosting its defense presence across the Indo-Pacific, as Beijing’s footprint also grows.
On Visiting the Lincoln Memorial
It is the evil that you do to achieve the good that haunts any nation.
The Predictive Power of Demography
History suggests the conventional wisdom about demographics and national power may be wrong.
Daily Memo: Taiwan’s Allies, US Interest Rates
All the news worth knowing today.
Daily Memo: Russia’s Shuttle Diplomacy, China’s Checkbook Diplomacy
All the news worth knowing today.
Understanding Our Geopolitical Model
Dec. 28, 2015 The quiet of the past few days gives us an opportunity to explain how we decide whether or not an event is important.
Marketing and the Delegitimization of Elections
The core issue is not one of marketing but of citizenry.
A Fight for Power in Southern Mexico
Violence is making it harder for companies to operate in the country.
A Southeast Asian Homecoming
China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula tend to overshadow Southeast Asia, a geographically confounding region that was, until very recently, also home to our very own Phillip Orchard. Now that he’s back, he, Jacob Shapiro and Cole Altom will discuss this oft-overlooked area. But first, they address the elephant in the room: the meeting in May between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

