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Xi’s Florida Mission

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Who will hold the stronger hand when President Trump hosts Xi Jinping at their Mar-a-Lago summit? If Trump repeats his threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and brand China a currency manipulator, can he still secure Chinese help in reining in North Korea?

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  1. Crouching Donald, Paper Tiger
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    Crouching Donald, Paper Tiger

    Apr 10, 2017 Barry Eichengreen is not surprised by the US president's deference to his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago.

  2. Will Nuclear History Repeat Itself in Korea?
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    Will Nuclear History Repeat Itself in Korea?

    Apr 4, 2017 Michael Mandelbaum shows why China holds the key to avoiding four bad options on the peninsula.

  3. Storm Clouds Over Korea
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    Storm Clouds Over Korea

    Apr 4, 2017 Joschka Fischer points out that, rhetoric aside, diplomacy is the only option for resolving the North Korea crisis.

  4. Tillerson Goes to Asia
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    Tillerson Goes to Asia

    Mar 29, 2017 Christopher R. Hill calls for a more comprehensive – and better-articulated – US strategy toward North Korea.

  5. The Temptations of a Resilient China
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    The Temptations of a Resilient China

    Mar 27, 2017 Stephen S. Roach urges the country's leaders not to project global power that domestic strength cannot support.

  6. Mnuchin’s Mission
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    Mnuchin’s Mission

    Mar 22, 2017 Jeffrey Frankel thinks Trump's treasury secretary needs to give his boss a dose of reality about China – and soon.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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