by Pingping Yin | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON– Every few months over the last several years, there seemed to be a new low in recent U.S.-China relations. However, President Joe Biden’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Monday in Bali, Indonesia, signaled their openness to repair...
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by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
Twenty women making soap in Idlib hope to expand their factory and increase their production in a bid to improve the living conditions of their families, which they provide for after losing their husbands in the Syrian war. Published in conjunction...
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by Zoya Mirza | Dec 2, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Military
WASHINGTON –– China’s rapid economic, technological and military expansion over the past two decades poses serious competition and an imminent threat to the United States, according to the Secretary of the U.S. Army, Christine Wormuth. “We shouldn’t be seeking, in my...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists placed thousands of pairs of flip flops on the National Mall last weekend to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has resulted in more than 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the country. Demonstrators also lobbied for...
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by Julia Mueller | Nov 18, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security
WASHINGTON — The United States needs a strategy for upcoming elections at several key international organizations, lawmakers said Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on U.S. leadership in the United Nations. The last U.S. administration...
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by Julia Mueller | Nov 17, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Threats to human rights and democracy were central to lawmakers’ conversations Tuesday at a House Foreign Affairs hearing to examine the Biden administration’s policy priorities for Latin America and the Caribbean. “It is a turbulent time for the Western...
