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Trump’s Shield of the Americas is billed as a fight against organized crime, but one of its real motives appears to be pushing China out of Latin America.
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As columnist @CandaceRondeaux writes, Ukraine and its European backers face a predicament in space: U.S. suppliers may rewrite the fine print when Washington’s political mood shifts, and Russia seems inclined to dispense with the paperwork altogether.
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Roland Barthes, the French intellectual, called the graffiti of May 1968 “the storming of the word.”
The clever slogans on the signs of today’s marching French high school students hearken back to that revolt, Robert Zaretsky writes.
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Elon Musk has no place in the chain of command and no accountability. Yet as senior columnist @FridaGhitis writes, militaries that depend on SpaceX’s satellite internet have given him the power to disrupt their operations at will.
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Most members of Trump’s Shield of the Americas, a regional coalition against organized crime, have records of undermining the strong public institutions that experts say any winning anti-crime strategy depends on.
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Arab-led parties won a combined 19 seats in Israel’s election, a historic result, as neither main bloc reached a majority.
Yet PM Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Gadi Eisenkot have both ruled out governing with them.
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European governments are seeking out alternatives to Starlink. That will provide them with greater control, but it raises other, more difficult questions, @CandaceRondeaux writes.
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Trump’s trade-over-aid approach faces a test in Niger, where a planned U.S. loan for a uranium mine could create jobs and rebuild ties two years after American troops left—if Washington also backs accountable governance.
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When the Global Financial Crisis hit China’s export markets, Beijing flooded the economy with credit.
The shadow banking boom that followed, and the sharp contraction when Beijing reined it in, set off the property collapse behind China’s economic doldrums.
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From WPR’s Trend Lines podcast, revisited for our 20th anniversary: Can bans on the cross-border trade in plastics and e-waste work when processing that waste is an important source of income for the communities those bans are meant to protect?
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The Shield of the Americas, the Trump administration’s Western Hemisphere security coalition, looks less like a serious effort to tackle organized crime than an ideological project among politically aligned leaders, @SimeonTegel writes.
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European governments can buy satellites, ground stations and terminals to escape dependence on Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Deterring a Russian spacecraft from harassing them is a much harder transaction, @CandaceRondeaux writes.
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The midterms will change U.S. foreign policy. The question is how.
Get an expert read on the results less than 24 hours after polls close at WPR’s live webinar on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 12pm ET. Sign up to reserve your seat.
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Even as it prepares to finance a uranium mine in Niger, Washington has been dismantling the democracy aid that helps citizens hold officials accountable.
That contradiction puts the lasting gains the deal promises at risk.
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Because China avoided a dramatic financial crisis, Beijing can blame U.S. trade wars for its malaise rather than its own policy failures.
But controlling the narrative only buys time, Mary Gallagher writes: “Structural problems demand structural solutions.”
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Kate O’Neill and Peter Dörrie discuss why bans on trading plastics and e-waste across borders have had limited success in a Trend Lines episode we’re highlighting for WPR’s 20th anniversary.
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Amnesty International has called Rwanda’s deal to host Formula 1’s African Grand Prix “a sportswashing prize.”
Beyond that charge lies another open question: Who does the race benefit?
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Three weeks after trailing in the first round, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won by rallying his base one last time.
But Brazil will almost certainly return to the anti-incumbent mood that made the race so hard for him, James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz) writes.
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