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Assessing AMLO’s First Year [[link removed]]
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Where does Mexico stand one year into the term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador? A Ground Truth Briefing convened scholars and policymakers to assess whether or not AMLO has fulfilled the lofty expectations that propelled him into office.
Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War [ [link removed] ]
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“Washington was responding to things that happened in Korea that they had neither anticipated nor desired to join… they really had a very severe shock with the Chinese intervention in October of 1950, which is the critical turning point in the war,” observed Samuel F. Wells Jr., Cold War Fellow and former Wilson Center deputy director at an event to celebrate publication of his new book that examines how military conflict in Asia shaped the nascent Cold War.
Challenges in the Horn of Africa [[link removed]]
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“If the international community is not coherent,” remarked Ambassador Alex Rondos, EU Special Representative to the Horn of Africa, “it will merely reinforce any incipient incoherence in the region. We will mirror each other, and then we’ll be sitting here in a few years’ time wondering what went wrong.”.
Is China Dictating What We See on TV? [[link removed]]
[link removed] [[link removed]] China is one of the hottest entertainment markets in the world. So what Chinese viewers want (and are allowed) exerts an increasing power in global markets. Join Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and author of Hollywood Made In China, for a discussion about how Chinese investment and interest is reshaping one of the key U.S. exports to the world.
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Wilson in the News
Bipartisan Bill Supporting Uighurs (Bloomberg Balance of Power) [[link removed]]
“We can’t sit silent,” says Wilson Center Director & CEO Jane Harman, speaking in favor of legislation passed by both houses of Congress to impose sanctions on Chinese officials over human rights abuses against Muslim minorities.
How The Impeachment Inquiry Has Changed The Dynamic Between Russia And Ukraine (NPR) [[link removed]]
Matthew Rojansky observes that “this moment is Vladimir Putin's fantasy moment for American vulnerability. All of it adds up together to a kind of policy paralysis.”
Armenian Genocide Descendants Face Another Turkish Onslaught, One Century Later (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School) [[link removed]]
In a co-authored piece, Amy Austin Holmes places Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish-held border areas in Syria in the historical context of the Armenian genocide.
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