Financial power must be an important component of the U.S.’s Russia containment strategy, not an afterthought.
It’s the essential ingredient for Taipei to achieve its economic diversification goals.
Beijing sees the Ukraine crisis as its opportunity to gain influence over financial markets.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s speech to parliament fundamentally shifted Germany’s foreign, security, and defense policies, with major regional repercussions.
Everyone presumes that China is the senior partner and Russia is the junior. That’s intuitive. But Beijing is now carrying a hell of a lot of freight for Moscow.
Turkish President Erdogan has long played Russia and Ukraine against each other, squeezing out the best deal for himself. However, as the fighting intensifies and the West ratchets up the pressure on Vladimir Putin, Ankara is under pressure to finally pick a side.
Join us for this conversation with H.E. William Ruto, Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya (2013-present).
Even though the U.S. economic role in Asia is growing in absolute terms, it is receding in relative terms, which means that, to lead, Washington should be leaning harder on the other traditional pillar of its economic leadership, which was to be a rule writer and standard setter.
China may study the new sanctions toolkit U.S. has rolled out against Russia both to figure out how not to become a target and to use as tools to coerce other players in the future.
Anna Ohanyan, Professor of Political Science, discusses the latest on Ukraine as President Biden amps up sanctions on Russia.