Why immigrants are America’s superpower, China and the Vilnius Summit, and lessons for the next Arab Spring.
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Brookings Foreign Policy

July 7, 2023

 

Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Ryan Hass as the next director of the John L. Thornton China Center. Read the press release.

G-7 Hiroshima summit in Japan.

Can the United States, South Korea, and Japan boost resilience to economic coercion?

 

Andrew Yeo and Kristin Vekasi examine how trilateral cooperation can help build resilience against economic coercion and sustain the rules-based international economic order.

 

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Xi Jinping may be souring on his 'Best, most intimate friend'

 

Following the Wagner incident, President Xi won't completely abandon Russia's Putin, but the "bromance that has caused so much concern in the West has probably peaked," Ryan Hass argues.

 

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Listen: Why immigrants are America's superpower

 

This week on the Dollar & Sense podcast, Wendy Edelberg joins David Dollar to discuss the positive impact of immigration on the dynamism and fiscal sustainability of the U.S. economy.

 

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"Putin will want to reassure his partners that he is very much still in charge, and leave no doubt that the challenges to his government have been crushed."

 

July 3, 2023 | Tanvi Madan, TIME

 

International affairs 

 

NATO, China, and the Vilnius Summit. In an article for War on the Rocks, James Goldgeier and Garret Martin argue that the war in Ukraine has already reshaped, and will continue to redefine, NATO's approach to China.

 

Lessons for the next Arab Spring. 10 years after Egypt's coup, Shadi Hamid reflects in a Foreign Policy essay that Washington has yet to learn that authoritarian stability is an illusion.

 

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