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Biden’s foreign policy aims to ‘win the 21st century’ Ishaan Tharoor Replay Video , including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. In his first address to a joint session of Congress, marking his first 100 days in office, President Biden heralded his aim for the United States to “win the 21st century.” He spoke of a country that had “stared into an abyss of autocracy and insurrection, pandemic and pain,” but now was already on the way to renewal and uplift. Biden touted his ambitious proposals invol...

American Rescue Plan: US stimulus seen widening trade deficit that sparked Trump’s trade war with China The US$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is poised to attract more Chinese imports. Photo: Reuters The US$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is poised to attract more Chinese imports, and analysts expect it to widen the United States' contentious trade deficit with the world's second-biggest economy. The stimulus will add about US$30 billion to US imports from China this year, estimates Derek Scissors, chief economist at China Beige Book International, a data-collection platform tracking ...

Posted Scott Gates as Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) in 2009. Photo: Marit Moe-Pryce / PRIO ‘Strong critical theory doesn’t play a big role in peace science anymore, or even in peace studies’, states American political scientist Scott Gates in this conversation with his long-term collaborator Nils Petter Gleditsch. Scott calls for more and better recording of data disaggregated in time and space; more work that takes advantage of quasi-experimental designs and other methods through which we can better ascertain causal inference; and further use of...

By Chen Weihua | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-01 13:36 lanes are seen parked at the terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Jan 25, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] Many US politicians have been busy politicizing the novel coronavirus during the past year, resulting in the worst pandemic response from the world's richest country. They have shifted their focus to infrastructure now. For example, US President Joe Biden said that he told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a phone call on March 26 that "democratic" countries should draw up a...

Many US politicians have been busy politicizing the novel coronavirus during the past year, resulting in the worst pandemic response from the world's richest country. They have shifted their focus to infrastructure now. For example, US President Joe Biden said that he told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a phone call on March 26 that "democratic" countries should draw up an infrastructure plan to rival the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.