Analysis
List of Analysis articles
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The CCP’s 100th anniversary is celebrated. Xi Jinping Is Using Party Outreach to Build an Anti-U.S. Bloc
An overlooked summit shows the scale of the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitions.
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U.S. soldiers in Bradley tanks near the Iraq-Syria border No Matter What Biden Calls U.S. Troops in Iraq, Iran Is Gunning for Them
Relabeling U.S. soldiers as “noncombat” won’t spare them from militia attacks.
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African leaders attend an entrepreneurship forum. To Improve Women’s Access to Capital in Africa, Look to California
Development finance institutions should follow California’s highly effective gender-equitable standards.
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Industrial robots prepare to attach doors to the body of an ID.3 electric car at a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany, on Feb. 25, 2020. What Biden Can Learn From Europe’s Industrial Policy
It’s not about the size of a spending package but about sharing brainpower and creating networks.
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A Tibetan activist holds a placard and a Tibetan flag during a protest against Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in front of the Olympics Museum in Lausanne on June 23. The IOC Should Stop Lying to Itself About the Beijing Olympics
Allowing the Games to happen alongside an ongoing genocide would be a disaster.
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Presidential nominee Joe Biden wears voting sticker. What Biden Really Thinks About Democracy Promotion
The new U.S president has crafted a novel approach to human rights that’s marked both by idealism and humility.
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Schoolchildren and their teacher peer out from under their desks during a Cold War air raid drill Be Wary of China Threat Inflation
Look at what happened with the Soviet threat in the Cold War.
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Cuban activists and supporters rally outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 27. Don’t Let Cuba’s Protest Momentum Evaporate
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration should listen to activists on the ground.
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A nurse takes Moderna COVID-19 vaccines ready to be administered at a vaccination site in Los Angeles on Feb. 16. The Science Says Everyone Needs a COVID-19 Booster Shot—and Soon
The biology of the delta variant has made mass revaccination an urgent necessity.
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Taiwanese soldiers display Happy New Year signs Beijing’s Attempts to Intimidate Taiwan Have Backfired
Chinese coercion has strengthened democratic resolve.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Tehran on April 21, 2002. The China Model Will Never Work in Iran
Tehran thinks it can have Chinese-style authoritarian prosperity—but Iranian leaders will never abandon revolution or offer citizens rising living standards in exchange for acquiescence.
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Activists protest LGBTQ discrimination in the Commonwealth. The New Anti-Gay Bill Proposed in Ghana Will Destroy Lives
It happened to us in Nigeria.
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An opposition activist holds a banner that reads “vaccination now” during a protest to demand the government generally vaccinate the population in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 28. Venezuela Is Without a Vaccination Plan
Maduro’s abject failure is consequential for the nation, the region, and the world.
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South Korean athlete runs bases at Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan Wasted a Golden Chance for Olympic Reconciliation
Tokyo-Seoul relations remain mired in bad history and petty insults.
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Advocates for student debt cancellation in front of the White House You Shouldn’t Have to Pay for That IR Master’s
Institutions like the State Department need to scrap credentialism.
