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June 8, 2021 Caleb Diamond: Thank you, Operator. And welcome, colleagues. We have a great briefing today on Biden’s first overseas trip, the upcoming G-7/NATO summits, and the bilateral meetings on the sidelines. So we’ll get right to it, but first I do want to introduce our speakers. So we have with us today Matt Goodman – he’s the CSIS senior vice president for economics; Rachel Ellehuus, our deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Europe Program; Heather Conley, senior vice president for Europe; and then we’ll close with Jim Lewis, also senior vice president here at CSIS....

US President Joe Biden administration, along with the Japanese and Australian governments, are reviving the Blue Dot Network infrastructure initiative to pr

Charles Boustany Jr., partner at Capitol Counsel and former representative from the state of Louisiana, and Jennifer Hillman, senior fellow for trade and international political economy at CFR, and Daniel H. Rosen, partner at Rhodium Group, will discuss the findings of the latest CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and implications for U.S. economic security, climate change, and global health interests.   FASKIANOS:  Thank you, welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations State and Local Officials webinar. I’m Irina Faskianos, Vice Presiden...

25 May in 8:00 The National Interest Washington seeks to limit Russian and Chinese influence in the region, contain China’s Belt and Road Initiative, encourage Uzbekistan’s reform process under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and enlist the Central Asian states in fighting terrorism,  The National Interest reports. Biden’s foreign policy is likely to retain most of the features of the Trump administration’s “U.S. Strategy for Central Asia,” released in February 2020. The core policy objectives of the strategy are to support the sovereignty and independence of Central Asian state...

Victor Cha The Seoul Central District Court last month dismissed a claim for compensation from the Japanese government from victims of wartime sexual slavery. That is bad news for the victims but surely correct under international law, and an inadvertent byproduct of this development may be a return for South Korea to the center of regional relations and diplomacy. The court ruling prevents the government from appropriating Japanese company assets in South Korea and recognizes a 2015 compensation agreement as the primary vehicle for addressing any damage claims for survivors. At the same tim...