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September 23, 2022[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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China's Quest for Self-Reliance: Beijing’s Plans to Decouple from the Dollar [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Beijing is challenging the privileged status of the almighty dollar, as it tries to carve out its own sphere of influence free of Uncle Sam. Our new report—and launch event [[link removed]] —explores China’s plans to reconfigure the global financial order, analyzing whether it can create a parallel system based on the yuan.
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A Conversation with Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Ayman Safadi A Looming Cable Race in the Arctic: What Role for NATO?
After signing an unprecedented MOU between Jordan and the US, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Ayman Safadi came to the Wilson Center to talk with Ambassador Mark Green and Merissa Khurma, director of the Middle East Program. Topics include the just signed MOU, peace and stability in the Middle East, the ongoing refugee crisis, and more. As the receding ice conditions allow for increased navigation along the Arctic’s waterways, a cable race bringing technological progress is beginning to take hold in the region; a development that could turn the Arctic’s maritime domain into a critical global data chokepoint. Nimma Khorrami tells us what this means and what’s at stake.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Iran’s Failed Hijab Policy Claims Another Victim
Twenty-two year old Mahsa Amini was stopped outside a metro station by Iran’s notorious Gasht-e Ershad, or Morals Police, for allegedly violating the hijab dress code. She was forced into a van and driven to the office of the Gasht. Within hours her unconscious body was transported to a local hospital; two days later, she was dead. Haleh Esfandiari asks how many more victims will fall to the Islamic Republic’s obsession with women’s appearance.
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Jordan’s Queen Rania and Amb. Mark Green Discuss the Need for International Cooperation Remembering the Queen: A Conversation with Louis B. Susman
“We’re completely off course. Instead of finding new channels, we’re building walls,” says Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah or Jordan. “Nobody is saying that you have to adopt globalization as an ideology, but you have to recognize that we have an increasingly integrated economic and political landscape.” “Everything she did, as long as it was in the UK’s best interest, she promoted the special relationship [between the US and the UK]. And she told me once that it was special to her.” The Honorable Louis Susman, former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Wilson Center board member.
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Summer 2022Horn of Africa Tips Closer to Famine
Two aid workers from International Medical Corps provide an intimate look at how Russia's war with Ukraine is further affecting those already ravaged by hunger a continent away. Read more in the Wilson Quarterly’s summer issue.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Introducing the Polar Institute’s New Director
“When we talk about the Arctic... on one side we’re talking about Europe and the adjunct competition with Russia...but then we’re also talking about Alaska... we’re talking about homeland defense.... and then in the Bering Sea... we’re talking about Indo-Pacific perspective and vectors of attack from Asia,” says Rebecca Pincus, new director of the Polar Institute.
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Upcoming Events
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What’s Next for Brazil? The 2022 Elections and Beyond [[link removed]]Monday, Sept. 26 // 10–11:00 a.m. (ET)
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Priorities: A Conversation with Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari [[link removed]]Tuesday, Sept. 27 // 9:30–10:30 a.m. (ET)
Report Launch: Collapsed Security Threatens the Future of Yazidis & Minorities in Sinjar [[link removed]]Wednesday, Sept. 28 // 12–1:00 p.m. (ET)
Phase Two of ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’: Expanding Global Vaccine Production Capabilities [[link removed]]Thursday, Sept. 29 // 10–11:00 a.m. (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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At U.N. General Assembly, South Asia Focuses on the Climate Crisis (Foreign Policy) [[link removed]]
“South Asia will be on the outside looking in when it comes to discussions on Russia’s war in Ukraine. No South Asian country has joined the United States in its effort to build a common front against Russian aggression. Moscow has no enemies in South Asia. In fact, it has a friend in New Delhi.” Read more from Michael Kugelman as he previews what’s on tap with South Asian leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
Jean Lee on North Korea Threat (Sirius XM) [[link removed]]
“I would tell younger South Koreans that their future is inextricably linked to North Korea, whether they like it or not, and it is important to them to really understand what that threat is, and to know how to read propaganda.” -Senior Fellow Jean Lee in conversation with Elliot Williams.
Millennials, Assembled: At UN, Younger Leaders Rise (Associated Press) [[link removed]]
“A mistake would be to say, ‘Younger generations, they’re more liberal,’ and therefore we’ll see a turn to the left as these people come to the age of influence... Dissatisfaction with the status quo—it can show up on either end of the political spectrum.” -Jennifer Sciubba
Putin Expands His War as Biden Tries to Rally the U.N (The New Yorker) [[link removed]]
“Biden’s surprisingly brief retort to Putin’s declaration that he is expanding the war—on the military and political fronts—reflects the weakness, even dysfunction, of the U.N....This year, the world’s largest annual gathering of heads of state lacked the luster, leverage, and energy—and even attendance—that usually accompanies it,” writes Robin Wright.


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