Qatari Cash May Be Coming Soon to a Town Near You
It’s time for Washington to drop the rose-tinted glasses and make clear that America is not up for sale
Brookings Institution
The Time Is Right for Ally-Shoring, and It’s About More Than Being Friends
As the global economy realigns, the next U.S. president should formalize a liberal economic bloc of allied countries to stand up against authoritarian rivals.
Op-eds
What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion
The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.
Op-eds
Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies
Last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a huge win for America's "green" game, but it also provoked worries among U.S. allies about the protectionism...
Op-eds
Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making
If companies and their jobs leave for China, it will be hard for Germans to ignore the economic and social implications of significant job flight.
Op-eds
Tweaking the Inflation Reduction Act Can Strengthen Democracies’ Hand
“Made in Democracy” is a better label than “Made in America” if the goal is to strengthen our collective Western economies as well as our political alliances.
Op-eds
Made in America? Try Made in Democracy.
Excerpt President Biden is attempting to reassert U.S. global leadership and rally democracies to outcompete China and other authoritarian regimes that threaten a democratic, rules-based global political...
Op-eds
Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch
Here’s how to get the world excited about it again.
Op-eds
Workforce ‘ally-shoring’ brings benefits across borders
Excerpt After a swing and a miss with the Summit of the Americas, President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s recent meeting at the White House was a critical opportunity to...
Op-eds
Global Supply Chains Are Driving Conflict. They Can Be Rewired for Peace.
The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin’s brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russian oil and natural...
Op-eds
U.S. Must ‘Ally-shore’ to Reassure Partners, Reassert Power of Democracies
When we first introduced “ally-shoring” in Newsweek (seizing on then-USAID deputy administrator Bonnie Glick’s phraseology) as the most powerful path to rewire COVID-disrupted supply...
Op-eds
Rebuilding America’s economy and foreign policy with ‘ally-shoring’
Last month, President Joe Biden came to Michigan to push America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles—or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. In doing so, the...
Op-eds
America needs healthy supply chains with allies
President Joe Biden recently came to Michigan — pushing America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. He held out...
Op-eds
Biden Must Push President Moon to Get Real on ROK-China Relations
Moon’s reluctance to hold the Chinese government accountable for its misdeeds underscores a challenge for the United States and other allied governments in bolstering regional cooperative efforts supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
Op-eds
‘Ally-shoring’ will help US rebuild economy and global leadership
Excerpt Like a giant global pause button, the COVID-19 crisis has forced us to look hard at our world, our relationships with people and governments across continents. It has also made vivid the fragility...
Op-eds
Beijing Seeks to Divide Seoul and Washington
Last week, the South Korean and Chinese governments held high-level meetings to enhance coordination on North Korea policy. Beijing seeks to erode Seoul’s commitment to working with the United States...
Insights
Re-Forge Strategic Alliances and Check China Abroad, Rebuild Economy at Home
The industrial heartlands of the U.S. and its European allies have become crucibles for the polarizing politics of neo-populism for a population left behind in the information age. Anxious and angry citizenry,...
Op-eds
COVID-19 in Iran and Turkey: Mismanagement, Crackdowns, Economic Crises, and Corona-Diplomacy
Iran and Turkey have been the two countries in the Middle East hardest hit by COVID-19. Their respective epidemics – which both governments have largely mismanaged – have amplified their democratic...
Insights
Communist China’s imperialist dreams
The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure
Op-eds
The advance of illiberal world disorder
What Americans achieved after World War II is endangered