On March 10, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio tweeted that 83 percent of the 6,200 projects run by USAID globally would be shut down. While it wasn’t stated exactly which programs were to be terminated, a leaked document from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee provides some insight. This documentContinue Reading
For decades, free trade has been a divisive issue in U.S. politics, criticized by both the New Right and progressive Left. While Washington policymakers focus on competing with China, they have also reset U.S. trade priorities, moving away from traditional free trade agreements and toward narrower frameworks. This shift hasContinue Reading
More than a decade since the announcement of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the ambitious project faces mounting scrutiny, despite its outward appearance of driving rapid development growth. The so-called BRI 2.0 vision, which promises to be “smaller, greener, and smarter,” is Beijing’s response to widespread criticism of theContinue Reading
Since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, the country has experienced a resurgence of political violence. Fighting has flared up along old and new conflict lines: the military and democratic opposition forces are contesting control of Myanmar’s heartlands populated by the Bamar majority, while several powerful ethnic armed organizations (EAOs)Continue Reading
