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July 9, 2021[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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The Gaza Ceasefire: What’s Next? [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]At a recent Wilson Center event examining the steps forward after the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Motaz Zahran, Ambassador of Egypt to the United States praised the Biden administration’s efforts to quell violence: “Pivoting away from the Middle East is [not] any option….If you decide to leave the Middle East, the Middle East will never succumb to your decision.”
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Creating Livable Asian Cities: Challenges Ahead for Urbanization in Asia Breaking the Ocean Connection in Aquaculture
Neeta Pokhrel, Chief of the Asia Development Bank’s Water Sector Group, says that while Nature-Based solutions are increasingly seen as an effective way to build urban resilience and rejuvenation, “implementation [in Asia] is still very limited.” China and the U.S. and other large aquaculture producers may reduce wild fish catches. But Karen Mancl writes that “the current rate of harvesting ocean forage fish to feed farmed fish, like salmon, trout, and bass, is not sustainable, and may lead to the collapse of the forage fishery.”
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Exploring Stubborn Things
In his new blog, Stubborn Things , Wilson Center President, Director, and CEO, Ambassador Mark Green lays out often surprising – and even counterintuitive – trends, events and movements that will shape our global future: the boom in India’s population growth, the status of women in Afghanistan, the immensity of China’s fishing fleet, and even the viral megaphone of Cuban rap.
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Venezuela’s Democratic Unity Platform and the Search for Democratization USMCA at One Year – Happy Birthday?
Leopoldo López, National Coordinator of the Venezuelan opposition group Voluntad Popular, argues that “Venezuela is a laboratory of the influence that authoritarian regimes” such as China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Cuba can exert in Latin America. “One of the things we learned right away [in the COVID-19 pandemic],” observes Public Policy Fellow Earl Anthony Wayne, “is that there wasn’t an understanding of what were important supply chains, and who was connected to whom.”
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Unleashing the Potential of "Serious Games"
Can you educate citizens with games that challenge players to put the federal budget on course? Elizabeth M H Newbury, Director of the Wilson Centers’ Serious Games Initiative dives into how she leverages games as a tool for public communication of science and policy research.
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Upcoming Events
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter [[link removed]]Monday, July 12, 2021 // 4–5:30pm (ET)
Uruguay’s Technology Sector and the Future of Fintech in Latin America [[link removed]]Wednesday, July 14 // 10–11am (ET)
Tokyo and the Long Game for the Olympics [[link removed]]Wednesday, July 14 // 11am–12pm (ET)
Cybersecurity on the Final Frontier: Protecting Our Critical Space Assets from Cyber Threats [[link removed]]Wednesday, July 14 // 3–4:30pm
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Wilson In the News
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We Just Had Another Ransomware Attack. It's Time Biden Gives Putin an Ultimatum. (Washington Post) [[link removed]]
“Stopping ransomware attacks is an urgent problem with consequences for all Americans, not just big companies and tech interests,” writes Matthew Rojansky.
James Jeffrey on Biden Administration Mideast Policy (Washington Journal/C-SPAN) [[link removed]]
“The more countries that have nuclear weapons,” observes James Jeffrey, “particularly irresponsible countries like Iran or North Korea that gain nuclear weapons, more dangerous the world is.”
Green: USMCA's First Year Is One That Will Not Be Soon Forgotten (Rio Grande Guardian) [[link removed]]
Ambassador Mark Green, President, Director and CEO of the Wilson Center, says that “all three governments should be commended for their vision and their willingness to take on the risk of renegotiation with no guarantee of success.”
Congress and the European Parliament Must Work Together to Counter China (The Hill) [[link removed]]
Nicola Casarini suggests that “the U.S. Congress should take the lead, reaching out to the European Parliament to propose setting up an inter-parliamentary group with focus on China.”


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