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Graphite represents nearly a third of the weight of an electric vehicle. The newly announced tariffs on Chinese critical minerals, including graphite, could therefore impact U.S. EV manufacturing.
SOURCE: "Experts React: Energy and Trade Implications of Tariffs on Chinese Imports" by CSIS's Joseph Majkut, William Alan Reinsch, Scott Kennedy, Emily Benson, Gracelin Baskaran, Jane Nakano, and Quill Robinson.
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4,000
On April 20, the Venezuelan military launched a field exercise involving as many as 4,000 cadets as part of the regime's escalating competence strategy against Guyana in the Essequibo.
SOURCE: "The Essequibo Pressure Cooker: Runaway Nationalism and Maduro’s Compellence Strategy" by CSIS's Ryan C. Berg, Christopher Hernandez-Roy, Henry Ziemer, Rubi Bledsoe, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., and Jennifer Jun.
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90 percent
The Russo-Ukrainian war is now longer and bloodier than 90 percent of all interstate wars in the last 200 years.
SOURCE: "Victory in Ukraine Starts with Addressing Five Strategic Problems" by CSIS's Benjamin Jensen and Elizabeth Hoffman.
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40 times greater
The number of people traveling through the Darién Gap rose to a record 520,085 migrants in 2023—more than 40 times the annual average between 2010 and 2020.
SOURCE: "Mind the Darién Gap, Migration Bottleneck of the Americas" by CSIS's Daniel F. Runde and Thomas Bryja.
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