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Aug 21, 2020

Oh in National Interest on a potential Biden administration’s North Korea policy

By Atlantic Council

Dr. Miyeon Oh, Director and Senior Fellow of the Asia Security Initiative at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, published an article, “Could Joe Biden Work With China to Denuclearize North Korea?”, for The National Interest. In the article, Oh discusses Joe Biden’s potential DPRK policy with the upcoming 59th quadrennial presidential election in […]

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Aug 21, 2020

Kroenig explains why democracies have an advantage over autocracies

By Atlantic Council

On August 21, IAI News published an essay by Matthew Kroenig, in which he explained the advantages possessed by democracies as they engage in geopolitical competition with autocratic great-power rivals. The essay distills key arguments from Kroenig’s book released earlier this year, The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the […]

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Aug 21, 2020

Fernandes in UNESCAP: A cascade of COVID-19 and climate extremes call for new algorithms to protect at-risk communities

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 21, 2020

Garlauskas on Ri Pyong Chol, vice chairman of the DPRK Central Military Commission

By Atlantic Council

Markus Garlauskas, the former US National Intelligence Officer for North Korea and Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Asia Security Initiative, was quoted by UPI on his remarks of Ri Pyong Cho, the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 20, 2020

Rebounding Asian exports could signal problems for China’s supply chains

By Jeremy Mark

While China is currently providing its neighbors with critical economic lifelines, many in the Asia-Pacific are still looking for alternatives. China’s continued economic power means that any decoupling will carry a cost, as Taiwan is beginning to experience in the Huawei dispute.

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Aug 20, 2020

Riaz quoted in TRT World about diplomacy between India and Bangladesh

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 20, 2020

Varshney in The Indian Express: The black part of Kamala Harris’s identity is bound to be bigger, but the Indian part will not be suppressed

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 19, 2020

Manning interview on podcast: China in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

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New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2020

Pakistan races to avoid financial watchdog blacklist

By Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

The Pakistani Senate is racing to approve multiple bills to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing—and fulfill a twenty-seven-point plan from global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF). With thirteen remaining conditions and an eye on the mid-October deadline, Pakistan is hoping to avoid a demotion from the FATF’s grey list to the blacklist, joining countries such as Iran and North Korea.

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Aug 17, 2020

Hillary Clinton: The work awaiting the next US president will be ‘overwhelming’

By Katherine Golden

Just ahead of the Democratic National Convention, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that if Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris were to win the 2020 US presidential election, their administration must be prepared to advance on several domestic and international fronts simultaneously because the work they’ll face is “rather overwhelming.”

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