** Weekly Round-Up
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** Quincy in the news
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** May 17, 2020
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** UPCOMING WEBINARS
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** Anti-Asian racism and implications for civil liberties and national security
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** Date: Thursday, 5/21/20
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** Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ET
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The rise in Anti-Asian hate crimes related to COVID-19 pandemic is alarming from civil liberties and human rights perspectives. But the stigmatization of Asian Americans also arguably has a negative impact on U.S. national security. Anti-Asian bigotry coming from the very top of the U.S. government risks driving away the Americans the U.S. national security apparatus needs to navigate Asia’s rising strategic importance. Join Quincy Institute and the Jewish Currents magazine for a webinar on the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States and its implications for civil liberties and national security. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Rep. Judy Chu will offer introductory remarks, followed by a panel discussion featuring Gordon Chang, Peter Beinart, and Jessica Lee. Kaiser Kuo will moderate.



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The essential role of dissent in government

Date: Friday, 5/22/20
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET
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The ongoing global health crisis has revealed the costs of a government unwilling to correct its course. While the Trump administration carries disdain for contrary opinions to a new level, the culture of the federal government has long dismissed voices of dissent, frequently to our peril. In her book, The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age, Elizabeth Shackelford shares her personal experience as a diplomat trying to push back against the status quo, and offers insight into the State Department's long history of ignoring others who have tried to do the same. Join Elizabeth and Ambassador Nancy McEldowney as they discuss with moderator, Andrew Albertson, how a healthier culture of dissent is necessary for a more effective national security strategy. This event is co-hosted by Quincy Institute and Foreign Policy for America.


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Can the Democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
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By Rachel Odell Esplin, Senior Research Fellow for East Asia, & Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Policy and Research
New York Times, 5/10/20

Before the pandemic, before the Great Recession, before proliferating hurricanes and fires, the United States began a global war on terrorism. Its leaders fixated on a shadowy enemy abroad as life at home crumbled for millions of Americans. The war on terrorism did not end terrorism; the war itself became endless. What it did shatter was the myth that a triumphant United States could bend the world to its will.

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Getting rid of the Saudi burden for good
By Annelle Sheline, Research Fellow for the Middle East
The American Conservative, 5/11/20

Can Washington afford tough love with the House of Saud? Recent reports seem to answer affirmatively, revealing that the U.S. military recently removed its Patriot antimissile systems from Saudi territory and that serious U.S. threats prompted the kingdom to de-escalate its oil price war with Russia.
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Pundits with undisclosed funding from arms manufacturers urge ‘stronger force posture’ to counter China
By Eli Clifton, Director of Democratizing Foreign Policy
Responsible Statecraft, 5/14/20

The Trump administration’s efforts to blame China for COVID-19’s rising death toll in the U.S. have not been backed up by intelligence assessments, but it has not stopped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from making the baseless assertion of the virus originating from a Chinese lab or the Trump campaign from attacking the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, as going too weak on China. But there may be more than political opportunism at play. Weapons manufacturers stand to reap huge profits if they can stoke a new cold war between the U.S. and China.
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The myth of Henry Kissinger
By Thomas Meaney, Non-Resident Fellow
The New Yorker, 5/11/20

In 1952, at the age of twenty-eight, Henry Kissinger did what enterprising graduate students do when they want to hedge their academic future: he started a magazine. He picked an imposing name—Confluence—and enlisted illustrious contributors: Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Lillian Smith, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr. The publisher James Laughlin, who was a backer of the magazine, described the young Kissinger as “a thoroughly sincere person (terribly earnest Germanic type) who is trying his hardest to do an idealistic job.”

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Don’t fall for the cold war trap
By Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy
Quincy Institute, 5/13/20

Before the pandemic the United States began a global war on terrorism. But it only shattered was the myth that a triumphant United States could bend the world to its will.Yet that myth may be roaring back, in a more vicious guise. To deflect blame for the pandemic, the White House is now targeting a foreign power: China.

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** MORE. MORE. MORE
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* A health crisis as an incentive to foster regional cooperation in the Persian Gulf? ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Adnan Tabatabai, Responsible Statecraft, 5/14/20
* U.S. and Europe must shift focus toward aiding the Syrian people, not toppling Assad, experts say ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Ethan Azad, Responsible Statecraft, 5/14/20
* The "new Cold War" started in Beijing ([link removed][UNIQID]) ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian/ Quoted: Rachel Esplin Odell, Senior Research Fellow for East Asia, Axios, 5/13/20
* There’s no one worse than Trump on climate and war ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Murtaza Hussain/ Quoted: Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy, Intercept, 5/12/20
* Can Bernie make Biden a bro on foreign policy? ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Daniel Depetris/ Quoted: Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy, The American Conservative, 5/12/20
* Anti-war groups demand foreign policy promises from Joe Biden ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Daniel Marans/ Quoted, Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Huffington Post, 5/11/20
* The new Cold War in Asia Is born of desperation ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Jeet Heer/ Quoted: Rachel Esplin Odell, Senior Research Fellow for East Asia, & Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director for Research and Policy, The Nation, 5/11/20

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