14 octubre, 2021
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Making Sense of China’s Pledge to Stop Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad
CFR Fellows’ Book Launch Series Guest Event: «The Fight for Climate After COVID-19
The Fight for Climate After COVID-19
Adapting to Climate Change, With Alice C. Hill
Climate Report Causes Concern, Taliban Attacks Escalate, and More
Why NOAA Matters for U.S. Climate Policy
The EU Green Deal Just Raised the Bar on Climate Policy
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13 octubre, 2021
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Editor’s Note: In collaboration with the Financial Times (FT), Eswar Prasad of Brookings and Aryan Khanna of Cornell have constructed a set of composite indexes that track the global economic recovery. The Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER) is also featured in the Financial Times.
The world economy’s sharp snapback from the short-lived but deep COVID-19 recession appears in danger of stalling. The latest update of the Brookings-Financial Times Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER) shows growth momentum weakening across the world, particularly in the two major engines of global growth—the U.S. and China. Continue leyendo →
13 octubre, 2021
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Le Monde diplomatique in English
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President Xi has vowed to ‘utterly defeat’ any bid for Taiwanese independence, and sorties by Chinese military aircraft near the island are now common. On the podcast, @AliceHerait discusses US-Taiwanese relations and what they mean for regional security. mondediplo.com/2021/10/07taiw
Arms, vaccines and pork, and an embassy that isn’t
Taiwan strengthens ties with the US
Taiwan expressed its thanks for American vaccines during the pandemic. However, it is equally grateful for US arms sales, vital to an island intent on averting enforced reunification with China.
by Alice Hérait
The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) in Taipei’s Neihu district is relatively discreet, despite its huge size. There are no flags, armed marines or cars with diplomatic plates outside; only a US seal with a bald eagle over the front door reveals the building’s identity. The institute opened on this site in 2018, having moved out of the Xinyi district, where most nations locate their ‘representative offices’. (They are not officially ‘embassies’ because most nations do not recognise Taiwan as a country.)
The AIT, which cost $255m and occupies a 16-acre site, is often referred to as the US’s ‘de facto embassy’. Including its offices in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second city, the US has almost 500 staff on the island (compared to 1,300 in Beijing). Officially, it’s a non-profit organisation sponsored by the US government. Unofficially, it’s one of its most expensive diplomatic buildings in Asia.
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12 octubre, 2021
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Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.” The series will examine the issues and choices facing the U.S. in a multipolar global economy and shifting world system.
The series kicks off with an in-person lecture by Fukuyama on Monday, Oct. 18, at 4:30 p.m., in Klarman Hall KG70. He will be introduced by President Martha E. Pollack.
The talk is free and open to the public; registration is required for the online broadcast. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.
