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Dear Readers, With the launch of this blog, we want to share stuff that until now we were mostly keeping to ourselves — arguments hashed out at the coffee machine, our editors’ insights on the news, story tips buried on our desks, things we hear from our friends abroad, and interesting links that circulated through ...

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Dear Readers,

Dear Readers,

With the launch of this blog, we want to share stuff that until now we were mostly keeping to ourselves — arguments hashed out at the coffee machine, our editors’ insights on the news, story tips buried on our desks, things we hear from our friends abroad, and interesting links that circulated through our inboxes. The blog will contain all this stuff and much more. This is supposed to be a daily resource for you, whether you’re looking for analysis, interesting links, or just something to help you procrastinate.

Of course, the idea is to fuel discussion. We’re still working on integrating comments (give us a few weeks) but you can send email here.

If you’re new to Foreign Policy, you’re probably wondering about the way we “lean.” FP is a non-partisan magazine and our history shows that. But as individuals, our editors have views that slice across the left-right spectrum. It sounds like a cliché, but visit Passport on a regular basis and you’ll see what I mean. More importantly, this blog will be written by our editors, but none of them will speak for the magazine or our publisher the Slate Group, a division of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC. 

On the substance, here you’ll read about the bread and butter foreign policy issues of the day — Iraq, the spread of nuclear weapons, energy dependence, etc. — as well as under-the-radar stories and angles unearthed from a wide range of sources in America and abroad.

We’re excited to have you here. At its founding in 1970, Foreign Policy was a journal. We relaunched as a magazine in 2000, spawned 9 foreign editions in 5 languages, redesigned ForeignPolicy.com—and picked up some nice awards along the way. We now look to make a place for ourselves in the blogosphere. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 

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    China Has Been Waging a Decades-Long, All-Out Spy War
  3. 3
    Stop Worrying About Chinese Hegemony in Asia
  4. 4
    America Is Winning Against China in Oceania
  5. 5
    A BRICS Currency Could Shake the Dollar’s Dominance
  6. 6
    What Thailand’s Election Means for Myanmar

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