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China's Africa Problem
Performers during the inauguration ceremony of Ivory Coast's new 60,000-seat stadium, built with the help of China ahead of 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images)
The People's Republic of China has earned the reputation for being a pragmatic, transactional actor in Africa, and for good reason, writes James Barnett in the new report, “ The ‘China Dream’ and the African Reality: The Role of Ideology in PRC-Africa Relations [[link removed]].” Since 2000, Chinese lending, trade, and investment in Africa have increased dramatically, while over one million Chinese migrants have moved to Africa for work. But while the CCP can bolster illiberal regimes on the continent, African political realities and ambitions are ultimately what drive these nations’ behavior.
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Young Arabs Break with the Past
Men and women watch the Saudi Arabia vs. Egypt 2018 World Cup match at a public viewing on June 25, 2018 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
As the U.S. reduces its regional footprint in the Middle East, the perspectives of Arab youth have begun to change on their own, writes Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]]. According to the 12th annual ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey, which interviewed 4,000 young Arabs, the younger generation is turning its back on religious radicalism, and Arab public opinion is moving to accept the presence of a Jewish state. The Palestinians have lost their position at the center of Middle East politics, and it is Turkey and Iran, not Israel, that most concerns Arab rulers.
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One Year, One Million Lives Later
Last October, hospitals in Wuhan began experiencing a surge in hospitalizations that would later be connected to COVID-19. Twelve months later, the virus has claimed more than one million lives. To mark Year One of the pandemic, Hudson has produced a brief video [[link removed]] highlighting its Coronavirus Timeline [[link removed]]. Citing open-source information and news outlets, the timeline provides a clear record of the global crisis in real time, enabling journalists, researchers and others to continue tracking the impact of the virus.
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Pakistan's Grey List Operations
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives at UN Headquarters on September 27, 2019. (AFP)
Pakistan has spent years on the pre-sanctions "grey list" of the United Nations’ terror financing watchdog, the United Nations Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Writing in The Diplomat [[link removed]], Amb. Husain Haqqani notes that the threat of sanctions hasn't persuaded Pakistan to shut down funding of UN-designated terrorist groups operating on Pakistani soil, including the Taliban, al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad.
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Peter Navarro speaks at Hudson Institute on October 19, 2020.
This week, Hudson's Michael Pillsbury was joined by Assistant to the President and Director of the Office for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro. During their conversation, Navarro detailed the multiple ways in which the CCP is endeavoring to “convince the world that Communist China’s authoritarian political and social systems are far superior to an American exceptionalism built upon free markets, free persons, democratic elections, the rule of law, and an independent judiciary.”
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BEFORE YOU GO...
The Hunter Biden controversy has revealed the changing rules of Twitter and Facebook, writes Harold Furchtgott-Roth and Kirk Arner in RealClear Markets [[link removed]]. Social media companies initially thrived by creating platforms driven by user-generated content. But as companies bury, block, and ban user content deemed unsafe or untruthful, the haphazard nature of Twitter and Facebook’s current efforts reek of political favoritism.
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