Trump’s High-Stakes Asia Tour: Resetting Power at ASEAN and APEC

In the landscape of modern geopolitics, few tropes are as durable—or as damaging—as Afghanistan being the “Graveyard of Empires.” It is the go-to explanation for every military withdrawal from Kabul, including the British in the 19th century, the Soviets in the 20th, and the Americans in the 21st. But if you look closely at the […]

This past week, the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC was granted an audience with Colombian Ambassador Daniel García-Peña, in which he sat down and discussed with students and faculty our evolving US-Colombia relationship. As a child of Colombian immigrants, I was eager to be present for this conversation, and its examination of Colombia’s future […]

Since the fiscal reforms of the 1990s, China’s provinces, prefectures, cities, and counties have taken on massive amounts of debt. With localities on the hook for their liabilities but paying at least half of their tax revenue to the central government, and with bureaucrats promoted partially on the basis of their contributions to GDP growth, […]

The negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and the European Union, commonly termed the “mother of all deals,” concluded on January 27th. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa traveled to Delhi to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the 16th EU-India Summit to finalize discussion […]