Content Type: New Atlanticist

New Partner, New Jobs: A Closer Look at Chinese FDI in Latin America

By Sebastian Maag Pardo

As Latin America embarks on the path to economic recovery, the region is in dire need of job creation sources, which, given dwindling US engagement with its southern neighbors, might be increasingly reliant on China. Beijing has rapidly increased its investments in the region, with over $10 billion invested per year since 2012. If current […]

Trump Risks Ceding World Stage to an Emboldened Xi

By Craig Hart

China steps up on climate change and United States steps down In the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reelection, the Communist Party of China has begun to take steps to realize Xi’s vision of China as an authoritative power on the world stage, adeptly exploiting the vacuum created by a lack of US leadership […]

The Xi Dynasty?

China’s president re-elected with no clear successor in sight Xi Jinping’s re-election to a second five-year term as China’s president, without a clear successor, cements his grip on the Asian nation and raises questions about the future of economic, political, and social reforms in the country, according to Atlantic Council analysts.   Xi was re-elected […]

A Blueprint for a US Strategy in Asia

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The United States should update, revitalize, and defend the rules-based international order while considering “hard-headed” engagement with China, according to the latest in a series of Atlantic Council strategy papers. This “is not a strategy designed in Washington to be imposed on the region,” said Matthew Kroenig, a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s […]

Xi Seeks to Solidify Grip on China

The National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which opened in Beijing on October 18, will solidify Chinese President Xi Jinping’s grip on Chinese politics and society, part of a plan to guide the Asian nation toward dominance on the world stage, potentially at the expense of the United States, according to Atlantic Council […]

Democracy in Doubt

By Elizabeth Ball

Beijing’s disregard for twenty-year-old agreement raises questions about Hong Kong’s future Beijing’s disregard for an agreement that ensures Hong Kong’s basic freedoms raises doubts about the future of democracy in this Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom (UK) handed Hong Kong back to China, ending […]

Trump’s Transgender Ban Raises Legal Questions

By Rachel Ansley

Is a tweet legally binding directive, asks former US Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning [Editor’s note: On July 27, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that military policy regarding who may serve will not change until US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis issues new guidelines. “In the meantime, we […]

The Last Three Feet: Advancing LGBTI Rights Absent a Clear Presidential Mandate

By Erin Clancy

“The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.” – Edward R. Murrow US diplomats serving at embassies and consulates abroad are gearing up for June Pride celebrations with local LGBTI communities and their allies at a time of uncertainty […]

The United States Cannot Afford to Scale Back its Efforts to Advance LGBTI Rights Around the World

By James "Wally" Brewster

In recent years, the protection and advancement of the human rights of LGBTI people has become a hallmark of US foreign policy. In 2011, former President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum that, among other things, directed government departments and agencies working overseas to “combat discrimination, homophobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTI status […]