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June 23, 2023[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Building a Competitive US-Mexico Border Conference [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“The USMCA has already become a model for trade agreements that foster innovation and promote prosperity, and I’m optimistic about replicating this model for our trade relationships with other regional partners. However, advancing regional inclusion will require us to get serious about the way we look at border communities." -Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
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Storytelling that Informs Policy: Addressing Forced Displacement and Refugee Challenges Reckoning with Syria’s Compounding Tragedies
With its arresting images, haunting music, and provocative statistics related to refugees and forced displacement, the opening film shows the power of storytelling. The following discussion provides key context and actionable ideas. “We must remember the tragedy of Northwest Syria is compounded by over a decade of intense military conflict that has leveled its infrastructure, displaced its communities, and destroyed its social fabric.” Read more from Noha Alkamcha in her new blog for the Middle East Women's Initiative.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Video | Smart TakeWorld Refugee Day: Facing the Challenges of the Highest Levels of Displacement on Record
“There is a huge jump from the previous report—approximately 20% or more. This is explained by the fact that conflicts are protracted, they are lasting longer. But the Ukrainian war, the situation in Afghanistan, the protracted nature of the Venezuelan crisis, and the recent Sudan conflict, they are driving the numbers.” -John Thon Majok
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China Still Gets “Developing Nation” Preferential Treatment NATO Defense Ministerial Meeting: A Conversation with Slavjanka Petrovska, Minister of Defense of North Macedonia
“The People’s Republic of China is the world’s second largest economy, ranks in the top five nations for trade and foreign investment, has the world’s largest number of middle-class consumers, and provides an estimated $3 billion per year in foreign aid expenditures. But the United Nations still formally treats it as a developing economy.” Read more from Ambassador Mark A. Green’s latest Stubborn Thing blog. On the heels of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council Defense Ministers, Macedonia’s Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska has a candid conversation with Philip Reeker, Chair of the Global Europe Program. Petrovska reports they are willing to accept Ukraine as a NATO country whenever the conditions for that are fulfilled, and will continue to support Ukraine financially, and through different kinds of military donations. That and much more in this timely talk.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]China, Russia, and the US: Nuclear Competition in a Tripolar World
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW Robert Litwak, Senior Vice President and Director of International Security Studies at the Wilson Center, discusses his latest publication, “Tripolar Instability: Nuclear competition among the United States, Russia, and China.” Litwak describes his new book as explaining how “China’s emergence as a peer nuclear power to the United States and Russia has brought the world to the cusp of a tripolar nuclear order.”
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Book Launch | Tripolar Instability: Nuclear competition among the United States, Russia, and China [[link removed]]Tuesday, June 27 // 11:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)
Critical Minerals in the Arctic: Forging the path forward [[link removed]]Wednesday, July 12–Thursday, July 13 // 9:00 am–4:30 pm (ET)
No Water, No Food: Glacier loss threats to US and Chinese agriculture [[link removed]]Thursday, July 13 // 9:30–10:30 am (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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Modi’s State Visit Aims to Cement US-India Partnership (Foreign Policy) [[link removed]]
“The growth in US-India ties is all the more remarkable given the relationship’s considerable constraints...Meanwhile, each country maintains partnerships with the other’s top rival: Washington with Islamabad, and New Delhi with Moscow.” -Michael Kugelman
“Hell of a Job": Biden’s reaction and five other takeaways from Blinken’s trip to China (CNBC) [[link removed]]
“There’s a joint decision, a joint realization that we mustn’t go to war, but both countries are going to keep competing in every index of power all over the world, by all means short of war,” -Robert Daly


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