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Taking the Pulse: This Year’s Good and the Coming Bad and Ugly

As the year draws to a close, experts reflect on the positives of 2024 and share their concerns for 2025.*

· December 19, 2024
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Toward a Cleaner, Smarter USMCA

Renewal negotiations offer the best—maybe the only—path to strengthening North America's clean energy supply chain.

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· December 17, 2024
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The AI Export Dilemma: Three Competing Visions for U.S. Strategy

As cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology proliferates worldwide, U.S. policymakers will need to figure out how to leverage first-mover advantages and reconcile national security pressures with economic constraints.

· December 13, 2024
A wind turbine factory worker is seen as US President Joe Biden tours CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world, in Pueblo, Colorado, on November 29, 2023.
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Focusing Industrial Strategy: Which Clean Energy Supply Chains Should Have Priority?

The world is being defined by global value chains, fierce competition, and limited public resources. Must the United States compete in all areas and domains?

· December 12, 2024
enegal's Foreign Minister Yassine Fall delivers a speech at the ministerial conference of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on September 3, 2024 in Beijing, China.
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What FOCAC 2024 Reveals About the Future of China-Africa Relations

China’s domestic situation and its engagement with Africa indicate a drastic shift in China’s checkbook diplomacy approach.

· November 21, 2024
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Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union

In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credibility, the union will have to balance its pursuit of economic security with broader foreign policy goals.

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· November 19, 2024