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Can the Democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
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.
WATCH HERE
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- A health crisis as an incentive to foster regional cooperation in the Persian Gulf? 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 by Ethan Azad, Responsible Statecraft, 5/14/20
- The "new Cold War" started in Beijing 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 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? 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 by Daniel Marans/ Quoted, Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Huffington Post, 5/11/20
- The new Cold War in Asia Is born of desperation 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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