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Examining the most pressing issues facing the United States and its partners in sustaining economic and technological advantages essential to prosperity, security, and resilience.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent urged the IMF & World Bank to highlight global imbalances and assess how China’s policies contribute.

Tune into the Betting on America with @navingirishankar.bsky.social and World Bank's Indermit Gill: tinyurl.com/385yzdxm

Secretary's remarks: tinyurl.com/458nukue
Europe is adopting environmental measures with extraterritorial reach. For the first time, this could directly impact the world’s largest gas and LNG producers, a development analyzed by CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program’s Leslie Palti-Guzman.

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European Union’s Newfound Pragmatism Focuses on Emission Rules: Will It Appease Doha and Washington?
Europe is adopting key environmental measures with extraterritorial reach. For the first time, these rules could directly impact the business of the world’s largest gas and LNG producers, notably Qata...
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The US agricultural sector is caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war. As tariffs & retaliatory measures escalate, US farmers scramble for new buyers while Chinese consumers seek alternative suppliers—a trend noted by CSIS Economics Program & Scholl Chair scholars.

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When a Trade War Becomes a Food Fight
The U.S. agricultural sector is caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China trade war. As Washington and Beijing escalate tariffs and other retaliatory measures, U.S. farmers are scrambling to find new ...
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Ukraine is creating its own Cyber and Space Forces to defend against Russian threats across domains. CSIS Strategic Technologies Program's Lauryn Williams, Taylar Rajic, and Kuhu Badgi unpack the implications.

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Unpacking Ukraine’s Future Cyber and Space Forces
This piece explores the key questions surrounding Ukraine's proposed Cyber and Space Forces and what they will mean for the future of warfighting.
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China’s latest export controls are a direct response to U.S. trade measures. In his new commentary, CSIS Economics Program and Scholl Chair for International Business’ William Reinsch urges the U.S. to take a consistent, balanced approach to ease tensions.

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What Goes Around Comes Around and Other Cliches
This week, Bill Reinsch argues that China’s recent export controls are a direct response to U.S. trade measures. Rather than reacting with outrage, he suggests that the United States should avoid hypo...
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Can the U.S. meet skilled trade labor demand through 2030?

Tune in to @navingirishankar.bsky.social and Karl Smith on GenAI’s skilled trades demand—and what it’ll take to close the gap.

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Can the United States Meet Skilled Trade Labor Demand Through 2030?
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In his latest commentary, Economics Program and Scholl Chair for International Business' William Reinsch, discusses the expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act and addresses its impact and missed opportunities.

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How Will Tariffs Impact U.S. Cost Competitiveness?

In the latest Betting on America episode, Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic CEO, and @navingirishankar.bsky.social discuss the implications of tariffs for U.S. cost competitiveness and reindustrialization.

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In the latest from the Economics Program and Scholl Chair for International Business, expert Meredith Broadbent examines whether the U.S.-UK Technology Prosperity Deal, despite the excitement, can address major barriers in the U.S. tech sector.

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As the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) enters a new chapter, Erin Murphy, Deputy Director of the CSIS Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics, examines the opportunity to redefine the agency.

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A New Chapter for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation enters a pivotal new phase with a new CEO and upcoming reauthorization—offering a chance to redefine its mission, strengthen global impact, and…
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As the GenAI infrastructure build-out accelerates, CSIS experts @navingirishankar.bsky.social and Karl Smith assess labor supply constraints, policy gaps, and the need for a National AI Infrastructure Workforce Consortium.

Read the full analysis: www.csis.org/analysis/can...
In his latest commentary, Economics Program and Scholl Chair for International Business, Senior Adviser, William Reinsch breaks down how labor shortages and policy decisions have turned America’s long-standing agricultural trade surplus into a growing deficit.

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Down on the Farm
This week, Bill Reinsch analyzes the impact of trade retaliation on the U.S. agriculture industry.
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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

CSIS China experts share their insights on the current state of U.S.-China relations and what might be at stake as a potential Trump–Xi meeting looms on the sidelines of APEC

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit
This collection of brief comments by several CSIS China experts reflects substantial anxieties about the state of U.S.-China relations and the potential downsides to possible agreements reached during...
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"When it comes to the design portion of the semiconductor supply chain, workforce challenges and export control enforcement issues are more prevalent threats to U.S. economic security than design-out considerations," Bill Reinsch writes.

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Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense is rapidly innovating, "integrating fast-moving, nontraditional vendors and new technologies with the institutional need for scale and standardization."

@ai.csis.org's Kateryna Bondar discusses: cs.is/4osDLBF
Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic CEO on supply chokepoints: “It takes 18 months to get a new engine turbine blade built [...] because we let the tooling industry go to China. [...] So, let’s redesign manufacturing so it’s not needed at all.”

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Can U.S. Supersonic Travel Achieve Commercial Scale? Blake Scholl, Founder of Boom Supersonic says, "The fact that we blocked trickle-down innovation is why we’ve had a 50-year hiatus in progress.”

Watch the full episode with host @navingirishankar.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/yn38ajp7