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August 11, 2023[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Europe and the Americas: The Road Ahead for Transatlantic Cooperation [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“The European Union presence as a whole is massive in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the EU is looking to expand that. One of the notable things that took place at the EU-Latin American Summit in July was a pledge by the EU to invest another $50 billion in the region.” -Cindy Arnson
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Can Camp David Pave the Way for Durable Japan-Korea Ties? Argentina Elige: A Conversation with Economic Adviser to Presidential Candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
“Personalities matter in diplomacy, and a demonstrated rapport between President Yoon, Prime Minister Kishida, and President Biden is a prerequisite for the summit’s success.” Read more from Shihoko Goto. In the Latin America Program’s ongoing dialogues about Argentina’s upcoming elections, we hear from Martín Redrado, senior economic adviser to Argentina’s presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. He discusses Rodríguez Larreta’s plans for repairing Argentina’s chronic economic imbalances and turning around its stagnant economy.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Video | Smart TakePresidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio Assassinated in Ecuador
“He was an investigative journalist, he had a lot of information, he had uncovered a lot of corruption cases here in Ecuador, including former president Rafael Correa. His whole political platform was based on zero tolerance for corruption.” -Beatriz Nice
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Blog | Focus Ukraine [link removed] [[link removed]] Podcast | Blockchain Explained [link removed] [[link removed]]
Reconciliation but No Resolution to Poland’s and Ukraine’s Memory War Legislating for an Innovative Financial Future
“The seeds for the downfall of this latest attempt at reconciliation lie in the very language the presidents used to describe the event. In parallel Twitter statements, they proclaimed: ‘Together we pay tribute to all the innocent victims of Volhynia! Memory unites us! Together we are stronger.’ While the statement seems to project unity and agreement on this tragic past, it obscures the past more than resolves it.” -Alex Perez Reyes turns to history to uncover the present. “Bitcoin is like digital gold; it is a store of value. Ethereum, on the other hand, is a blockchain that may never develop into a currency like asset, but rather become a platform for smart contracts. Most other digital assets, crypto currencies, are fraudulent and they’re going to go away.” -Senator Cynthia Lummis, a co-founder of the Digital Asset Caucus, explains the complexities of legislating blockchain.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Video | Smart TakeUS Women’s Soccer Team Can Claim Victory for Maternity Rights
"US Soccer offers six months of paid parental leave to all national team parents, including adoptive parents. Parents also get fully funded childcare during training camp and competition.” Learn more from Sarah Barnes, who tells us how they got there.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]China, Russia, and the US: Nuclear Competition in a Tripolar World
“They’re on the cusp of becoming a peer nuclear competitor with the United States, achieving parity in numbers. By the end of this decade, it’s predicted that China will have 1,000 warheads,” says Robert Litwak. “And that’s a gamechanger.”
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Wilson In the News
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China and the US: ‘Era of Competition’ Must End as Communication Opens Between the Nations (Times Radio) [[link removed]]
“Right now, the political environments in the United States and China are in a bit of a state of flux,” says Rui Zhong. “These types of changes make it so that Washington and Beijing are more likely going to favor maintaining some type of status quo.”
What’s Next for Imran Khan’s Party? (Foreign Policy) [[link removed]]
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party faces elections with its leader in jail, interreligious violence flares in India, and Bangladesh replaces a controversial cyber law. This and more from Michael Kugelman in this week’s South Asia Brief.
Europe’s AI Act is Going Forward: Expect Trade Disputes to Follow (The Hill) [[link removed]]
“There can be no doubt that the definition of high-risk AI will grow for political, not just technological reasons. As it does, compliance and verification costs will balloon from an estimated 6-10% of investment for domestic companies, and by much more for foreign ones if the EU demands redundant testing.” -Marc L. Busch


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