News Roundup for April 30, 2019
…quoted – April 26 UxC HEADLINE NEWS: Cindy’s field note was included in the UxC headline news distribution. https://www.stimson.org/content/going-deep-underground-visit-waste-isolation-pilot-plant-carlsbad-new-mexcio LIVEDOOR: Last days of the Mighty Mekong: A Review of The Last Day…
Stimson Center Welcomes Back Cindy Vestergaard to Head New Converging Technology and Global Security Program
…External Relations at Datatrails (formerly RKVST), which leverages cryptography and distributed ledger technology to enhance trust in digital content and supply chains. Throughout, Vestergaard maintained her connection with the Stimson…
Build a More Effective Military Force
…a new attack aircraft program. The Air Force is currently in the process of retiring the A-10 program after an often contentious, decades-long fight. The A-10 is the only aircraft…
Facing the Future: Global South Climate Priorities in Trump’s Second Term
…Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. A BRICS summit among heads of state in July 2025 could further advance existing collaboration on energy transition, for instance, on strategic minerals mining…
2024 Showdown: Expert Insights from the Presidential Debates
…accept it. Interestingly, Trump countered by suggesting that it was Israel that rejected the plan and urged them to “finish the job” without specifying how to achieve Prime Minister Benjamin…
The Europe Question, the Rationale of Burden Shifting, and the Promise of Germany
…via mini-ententes facilitated by Washington. Two countries are particularly important to the United States as it retrenches and pushes Europe to build a “minimum credible deterrence”: Turkey and Germany. Turkey…
UN Security Council Can Do More to Address Climate Change
…public discontent and unrest. In the Middle East and North Africa, there is a growing consensus from academics, government agencies, and international organizations, that more extreme and longer droughts played…
China’s Strategic Facilitation in the Persian Gulf Security Crisis
…http://www.china.org.cn/world/2016-01/14/content_37573547.htm; Chinese State Council, “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era,” January 10, 2021, https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/whitepaper/202101/10/content_WS5ffa6bbbc6d0f72576943922.html. 30 Chinese Foreign Ministry, Media interview with Foreign Minister Wing Yi, January 15, 2022,…