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Nov 29, 2016

The United States Needs China and Vice-Versa

By Filippos Letsas

Over the last decade, China’s large holdings of US debt have helped the Bank of China keep the value of the renminbi artificially low. This strengthened China’s competitive position in the global markets, allowing for cheaper Chinese exports and contributed significantly to China’s large trade surplus, which now accounts for about half of the total US trade deficit.

China Economy & Business

Defense Industrialist

Nov 28, 2016

Advice to the Trump Administration on the evolution of war

By James Hasik

Technological developments and actual financial constraints demand top-to-bottom rethinking of the business of defense. As I wrote earlier this month, Donald Trump’s unpredicted electoral victory has brought the possibility for real change in the enterprise of national security. To borrow Paul Ryan’s phrase, thoroughly rethinking the business of defense could create a military that moves closer to […]

China Defense Industry

In the News

Nov 28, 2016

Slavin in Voice of America: Cuba Shows Fallacy of Sanctions, Regime Change

By Barbara Slavin

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Cuba

In the News

Nov 27, 2016

Schechter Quoted by POLITICO on US Support for Cuban Freedom and Reform

By Peter Schechter

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Cuba

In the News

Nov 26, 2016

Schechter Quoted by Agence France-Presse on US-Cuba Relationship

By Peter Schechter

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Cuba

In the News

Nov 26, 2016

Schechter Quoted by Boston Globe on Lifting Embargo on Post-Castro Cuba

By Peter Schechter

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Cuba

In the News

Nov 26, 2016

Marczak Quoted by Fox News on US-Cuba Relations

By Jason Marczak

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Cuba

In the News

Nov 26, 2016

Marczak Quoted by Reuters on Role of US in Cuba After Castro’s Death

By Jason Marczak

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Cuba
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, June 15, 2016

NATOSource

Nov 23, 2016

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter: US Policies on NATO and Russia

By Ash Carter, Survival

[T]he United States is preparing for a longer-term situation of tension and military competition with Russia.

NATO Russia

Trade in Action

Nov 23, 2016

TTIP&TRADE in Action – November 23, 2016

By Global Business & Economics Program

Happy Thanksgiving from the TTIP&TRADE in Action newsletter team!                                 Thanksgiving Turkey Fun Facts:-Americans will consume 46 million turkeys tomorrow ($610 million worth)-Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first meal on the moon was turkey-Every year, the US president pardons two Turkeys, and one is voted as the National […]

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