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August 5, 2022[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Either Go Back to the Drawing Board or Man the Battlements [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“To borrow a famous phrase from the USSR: China pretended that we embraced the One China Principle and we pretended to respect the pretense, sort of. This kept the peace and enabled the prosperity of Taiwan and China for almost 50 years. It was an extraordinary record, but it couldn’t last.” Read more from Robert Daly in this timely feature.
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After Two Years, Lebanon Has Done Nothing in Response to the Port of Beirut Blast The Latest on Brittney Griner’s Case
“Lebanon has only a number of months to make essential changes to curb the suffering of its people and reinforce its crumbling institutions before the country collapses.” Edward M. Gabriel makes the case for more US support. “It hasn’t really parlayed into a national movement, or a real demonstration of political opposition, in light of the Russian system’s proclivities. I think she’s perceived as someone who has gotten caught and now in the midst of the Russian legal system.” Listen to more from Kennan Institute director William Pomeranz and others in this Twitter Spaces conversation.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Zawahiri Killed in US Strike in Afghanistan
“The operation demonstrated that the United States could still conduct counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan nearly a year after the last U.S. troops withdrew on August 30, 2021.” Read more in this analysis of the protracted effort to rid the world of one of the most wanted terrorists.
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Canadian Petroleum Supplies to the US Global Health & Gender Policy Brief: Global Fertility Rates and the Role of Infertility
“Americans often forget that our largest foreign supplier of oil is right next door—Canada—and it has the capacity and willingness to increase production.” Read more from Wilson Center President and CEO in his latest blog. While the world’s population now approaches 8 billion people, global fertility rates have been declining for decades. In this new policy brief the Maternal Health Initiative explores the social causes and consequences of infertility, and strategies to address infertility in different contexts.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Vladimir Putin and the "Weaponization of History"
“These stories that are being told to the Russian soldiers who are being sent into Ukraine, to people who are urged to support them back home, this dehumanization, this demonization, this idea that they’re fighting on the side of right, in a just and noble and heroic cause, that has real affects. It takes people’s lives.” Hear more from Global Fellow Katie Stallard, who joins Isabella Tabarovsky and host John Milewski on this Wilson Center NOW.
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The Awakening of Rare Diseases in Latin America [[link removed]]Tuesday, August 9 // 10–11:30 a.m. (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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Brittney Griner Found Guilty in Russian Drug Trial (CBS News) [[link removed]]
“A lot will depend on where she goes in terms of what her sentence really means. I anticipate that she will be imprisoned in someplace outside of Moscow, and most likely a difficult place to get to, which means she will have difficulties meeting her teammates, her friends, and her loved ones in Russia. It will be a very lonely sentence for Brittney Griner, unfortunately.” —Will Pomeranz
Former US diplomat on Ayman al-Zawahiri's death, US-Taliban relations (CBS News) [[link removed]]
“Taking him out will make us all safer, but it means we have a lot of work to do as the Islamic State is an even bigger threat to the region.” —Ambassador James Jeffrey
Robert Daly on China's Reaction to Trip to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi (CNN) [[link removed]]
“Our goal needs to be to reassure China that while we stand with the people of Taiwan, we don’t seek Taiwan independence. I think that’s the piece that’s been missing. We’ve been deterring China, but we haven’t been reassuring.” —Robert Daly
A New Era for US-Colombia Relations (Americas Quarterly) [[link removed]]
“It’s a lot of love even for Colombia, which President Biden has described in recent months as the ‘linchpin,’ ‘keystone,’ and ‘foundation,’ of security and prosperity in the hemisphere. The very intensity of the outreach speaks to a broader nerviosismo over the potential for the US-Colombia relationship to go sideways during a Petro presidency.” —Cynthia Arnson


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