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After a Feelgood Summit, Biden Has to Make Good on U.S.-Africa Ties

U.S. President Joe Biden hosted 49 African heads of state and government, as well as senior leaders from the African Union, African entertainers, members of the continent’s diaspora and business, civil society and youth leaders during this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Senior Biden administration officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris, …

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A Protectionist America Won’t Be a Global America

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, as the United States began devoting significant amounts of military and diplomatic resources to helping Kyiv defend itself against Russian aggression, some analysts have argued that the effort would undermine Washington’s ability to counter China. Once again, they lamented, the postponed “pivot …

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The West Can Still Save the G-20 From Irrelevance

Geopolitical tensions will dominate next week’s Group of 20 summit in Bali, as leaders of the world’s major advanced and emerging economies convene for the first time since Russia’s fateful invasion of Ukraine in February. When Indonesia assumed the group’s rotating presidency last December, the G-20’s primary focus was bolstering …

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