Wilson Weekly
February 14, 2020

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America Rethinks China: A View from Journalists

Video & key quotes

“China’s opportunism is counterbalanced by its pragmatism,” says New Yorker staff writer Jiayang Fan. “I think its politicians are deeply attuned to the ways in which it could possibly lose on the chessboard, if it is not aware of the other’s position.”


The Age of Hiroshima: The Nuclear Revolution on the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings

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“There is a diffuse effort to blend the history and Hiroshima’s legacy into social movements, and to leverage, and remind, and have all of that feed into our politics and diplomacy,” observes G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.


Amid Venezuela’s Exodus, Remittances Boom

Insight & Analysis

Beatriz García Nice of the Latin American Program observes that “given Venezuela’s staggering economic decline, its dependency on remittances has grown unusually fast. That is why policies toward displaced Venezuelans, both in the region and in the United States, are so consequential, even beyond the humanitarian considerations.”

 

The Science and Politics of the Coronavirus Outbreak

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“This is definitely going to be one of the bigger security issues, albeit a nontraditional security issue, that is going to test Chinese resources this year,” says Rui Zhong, Program Associate in the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. “Already, we’ve had PLA medical personnel deployed to Wuhan, and we’ve had construction teams begin to build two temporary hospital care facilities.”

 

 

Wilson in the News

Parasite: What Does It Say About South Korea? (Beyond Today, BBC Radio 4)

Jean Lee says Parasite’s Oscar for Best Picture allows South Koreans to vault past the nation’s fraught history and say: “We have our own identity. We have our own culture…. And we can step onto that stage into the limelight, and do our own thing, and not be overshadowed.”

The Coronavirus Outbreak Will End, and China Will Remain, With All Its Strengths and Weaknesses (Barron’s)

“Americans have been prophesying the collapse of the Chinese system since the mid-’80s,” says Robert Daly. “But the Chinese have considerable confidence in their economic power.”

Ambassador Bill Taylor on Impeachment, Russia, and the Law of the Jungle (New Yorker)

The former top diplomat to Ukraine tells Robin Wright that “there’s no thought that the Ukrainians are going to militarily push the Russians out. The concern is to keep the Russians from taking more, from invading further.”

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