Assessing AMLO’s First Year

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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

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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

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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?

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. Also: Kokas tracks China’s influence on global cinema markets on a previous Need to Know.

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