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    A Missed Opportunity in Bali

    Stephen S. Roach

    The summit between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was, at best, a public-relations effort to provide a brief respite in the ominous progression of conflict escalation. But there was no substance, no strategy, and no path to de-escalation.

     explains why the Biden-Xi summit yielded little more than lofty rhetoric – and proposes a new approach.
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    The Case for Mandating Climate-Risk Disclosure

    Timothy Meyer, et al. defend the legal and economic justification for the US Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed new rule.
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    The Global Ambitions of Chinese Law

    Jeremy Daum & Moritz Rudolf explain why the challenge of cooperation with Western systems is as technical as it is political.
  5. sierakowski92_WOJTEK RADWANSKI,DAMIEN SIMONARTAFP via Getty Images_polandmissile Wojtek Radwanski, Damien Simon/AFP via Getty Images
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    The Rocket Attack That Wasn’t

    Sławomir Sierakowski warns that the next deadly explosion near Poland's eastern border may not be an accident.
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    What’s Holding Back Germany’s Zeitenwende?

    Helmut K. Anheier sees four reasons why the country has struggled to craft a foreign policy that matches its aspirations.
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    Peak Atlantic Unity?

    Mark Leonard urges European leaders to reduce their dependence on the United States while there is still time.
  8. szabo5_ CARL DE SOUZAAFP via Getty Images_lula Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images
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    What Lula Must Do

    Ilona Szabó sees four overarching priorities that Brazil's president-elect should put at the heart of his agenda.
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    The Climate Fight Is Asia’s Leadership Opportunity

    Kevin Rudd & Ban Ki-moon urge the region's leaders to unite the G20 agenda around the opportunities offered by the green transition.
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    Rebooting the World Bank

    Suma Chakrabarti & Chris Humphrey outline key reforms that could help the institution regain the trust of developing countries.
  2. ahzhang7_ NOEL CELISAFP via Getty Images_chinaprotest Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
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    No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang propose a strategy for loosening China's pandemic restrictions without triggering a nationwide health crisis.
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    Faking It, Making It, Losing It

    Harold James

    The spectacular rise and fall of FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried were driven by effective marketing, trickery, and financial speculation. In that, they bear a striking resemblance to the disastrous eighteenth-century experiment that fueled the Mississippi Company bubble and created the template for all future Ponzi schemes.

     draws parallels between the FTX collapse and economist John Law’s infamous eighteenth-century scheme in France.
  4. davies83_ Peter MacdiarmidGetty Images_bankofengland Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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    The Regulators’ Revolt

    Howard Davies traces the rise and fall of the UK government's recent effort to wield the power to rewrite financial rules.
  5. roach147_SAUL LOEBAFP via Getty Images_bidenxi Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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    A Missed Opportunity in Bali

    Stephen S. Roach

    The summit between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was, at best, a public-relations effort to provide a brief respite in the ominous progression of conflict escalation. But there was no substance, no strategy, and no path to de-escalation.

     explains why the Biden-Xi summit yielded little more than lofty rhetoric – and proposes a new approach.
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    Will Crypto Survive?

    Kenneth Rogoff assesses the strategies regulators could adopt in the aftermath of the FTX debacle.
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    Done With Deglobalization?

    Michael Spence sees reason to hope that the scales may soon tip back from international confrontation to cooperation.
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    The Unbearable Uselessness of Crypto

    Andrés Velasco explains why FTX's collapse should sink a hyped-up lie bobbing on an ocean of libertarian technobabble.
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    Is Germany Sick Again?

    Hans-Werner Sinn pours cold water on the fantasy that European economies can weather gas shortages with minimal pain.

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