Weekly Round-Up
Quincy in the news

April 26.2020
Guesswork and rumors make for bad North Korea policy
By Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow for East Asia
Foreign Policy, 4/20/20

North Korea is a famously hard country to understand from the outside. The satellite image of a dark North Korea surrounded by its well-lit neighbors, South Korea and China, captures the darkness that swallows up information there. Even those of us who have studied North Korea extensively have, if we’re honest about it, little idea as to what its leaders are actually thinking or what they might do.
Will American exceptionalism survive the pandemic?
By Andrew Bacevich, President
Spectator USA, 4/24/20

What does a writer do when essentially the entire nation is on lockdown? This one — and probably many others besides — sets out to write a book. Will the coronavirus pandemic substantially change America’s role in the world? I can’t say for sure — but it should. Since the end of the Cold War, authorities in Washington have tended to define that role in terms of acquiring and using military power, behavior justified by the conviction that we Americans are indeed God’s New Chosen People, summoned to do the Lord’s work. Dispatching U.S. troops to liberate the oppressed and spread democracy in such far-off places as Afghanistan and Iraq was an expression of American exceptionalism — the United States doing what history expects it to do.
Why Retribution Against China for COVID-19 Harms U.S. Interests
Rachel Esplin Odell, Senior Research Fellow for East Asia & Khody Akhavi, Multimedia Producer
4/20/20

As COVID-19 ravages America, some U.S. politicians are focusing their efforts on trying to punish the Chinese government through sanctions and other measures. Quincy Institute’s Rachel Esplin Odell explains that punitive action against Beijing right now will only undermine U.S. economic interests — after a month that saw more 22 million Americans lose their jobs.

If U.S. officials are serious about punishing China, then the situation could quickly escalate out of control, costing untold lives and devastating the global economy.

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