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July 2, 2021[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
Maduro’s Powerful Friends [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government has survived multiple calamities, including punishing U.S. economic sanctions and internal dissent. But how? A new book, published by the Latin American Program, Venezuela’s Authoritarian Allies: The Ties That Bind? , explores how powerful nations—including Russia, China, Cuba, India, Turkey, and Iran—have aligned with Caracas for economic, political, ideological, and geostrategic reasons.
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Venezuela’s Authoritarian Allies: The Ties That Bind? Report Launch: Building a Better Lebanon
Global Fellow Stephen B. Kaplan says China’s ability to learn from experience is a key element of its relationship with Venezuela: “China essentially made a bet early on in the case of Venezuela, and that bet went awry.” “The Lebanese people are suffering the consequences of their leaders’ failure to meet their responsibility to put the country's interests first,” says Ambassador David Hale, Wilson Center Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] New ReportA Path Forward In Lebanon?
Can Lebanon recover from a confluence of economic disaster, political dysfunction, pandemic and the August 2020 explosion in the key port of Beirut? A new report, Building a Better Lebanon , argues that the path to do so must be simple, transparent, and managed by a credible government focused on delivering reforms.
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USMCA at One
"We should celebrate the USMCA,” says Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative, “because of what it represents: a renewed commitment by our three countries to pursue negotiations that raise standards and create that race to the top."
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Focus on the Americas: Is a Hemispheric Environmental Treaty Possible?
As the United States prepares to host this year’s Summit of the Americas, what priority should climate issues have? Benjamin Gedan, Deputy Director of the Latin American Program, argues that environmental protection should be at the center of the hemispheric agenda.
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Wilson In the News
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After 100 Years, China’s Communist Party Remains a Black Box (Politico) [[link removed]]
“There are thousands of brave dissidents and free thinkers in the PRC,” writes Robert Daly, “but there is greater unity of purpose between China’s rulers and their 1.4 billion subjects than Americans usually admit.”
Flooding, Pandemic Restrictions Compound North Korea's Food Insecurity (NPR) [[link removed]]
Jean Lee says North Korea’s food instability was created in part by pandemic concerns: "They sealed that border so tight that it wasn't just the virus that wasn't getting in; there was very little flow of people and goods across the border as well."
Does Turkey's Kabul Airport Security Proposal Have Legs? (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) [[link removed]]
Michael Kugelman sees Turkey’s offer to maintain a presence in Afghanistan as a way “to give the U.S. an incentive to ease the sanctions that the U.S. slapped on Turkey” after its S-400 deal with Russia.
The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t the Problem. Iran Is. (The Atlantic) [[link removed]]
The Biden administration must “work with Arab, Israeli, and Turkish partners on Iranian regional issues, and maintain pressure on both Tehran and those governments tempted to yield to Iran,” writes James Jeffrey.


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