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This week's edition brought to you by Daniel Malloy, Managing Editor
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| | JULY 29, 2023 | The sweltering summer doldrums around the office were broken last week with the arrival of a bona fide star in our midst: Elina Svitolina, Wimbledon semifinalist and (more importantly for our purposes) fierce advocate for her homeland of Ukraine. Her inspiring remarks about her tennis journey and advocacy pair well with the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which I’ve been watching to cheer for Team USA and pine for the cooler temperatures right now in the southern hemisphere. For more powerful women’s voices and research on the impact of all this scorching heat, our experts have you covered. | | |
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| |  And justice for all. The parade of high-level US officials making their way to Beijing amid talk of a “thaw” in US-China relations has Rayhan Asat in a bind. As a clear-eyed policy analyst, she knows that better relations between the two countries can have benefits for the world. But as a human-rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage whose brother is imprisoned in China, Rayhan finds it “deeply unsettling” that Uyghurs could end up a “bargaining chip” in this relationship. So fresh off delivering a comprehensive report to the UN Human Rights Council about China’s abuses of Uyghurs, Rayhan penned this piece for us to lay out how the United States can condition improved relations on human-rights improvements from China. Read on to learn why she thinks Joe Biden should go to Xinjiang. | | |
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| |  Hot off the presses. It’s been impossible to miss the soaring global temperatures this summer, but our Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center team dropped some new research this week examining an underappreciated aspect of extreme heat—its disproportionate impact on women. Given that women perform most unpaid labor, already suffer from a wage gap, and have disproportionate health challenges, lost work hours due to unbearable heat impact women more. The result of months of work across the globe, the report dives into all the numbers around temperatures and GDP, while also lifting up the stories of women on the ground in India, Nigeria, and the United States. Dive into the details. | | |
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| |  BFFs? Last year, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen introduced a new concept during a speech at the Atlantic Council: “friendshoring.” At a time of testy US-China relations, she proposed, supply chains for critical items should be routed through friendly nations—just in case a conflict breaks out and trade is choked off. Researchers Niels Graham and Mondrita Rashid wondered whether the US was actually delivering on the friendshoring promise, so they dove into the data and found very little recent change in the sourcing of the critical goods and materials the United States wants to move to friendlier shores. Green technologies and critical minerals, they write, will be particularly hard to scale up anywhere other than China. Dive into their supply chain research. | | |
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| |  Moderación. In recent months, the drumbeat of commentary around Europe’s rightward turn, from Italy to Germany and beyond, has grown louder—with all eyes on a decisive slate of 2024 elections across the continent. Then last weekend, Spain’s voters delivered a surprising split result. Complex negotiations to form a government lie ahead, but one thing is clear: The biggest loser was the far-right nationalist Vox party. That’s because if you’re on a ten-point scale ranging from far left to far right, “Spanish voters tend to position themselves on the ideological spectrum around the 4, 5, 6,” Manuel Muñiz, provost of IE University in Madrid, said this week on our Atlantic Debrief podcast. Hear more from Muñiz breaking down the results, then explore the trends and issues to watch in a new project from our Europe Center, “Eye on Europe’s elections.” | | |
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| |  Reasonable doubt. Is Israel’s democracy teetering on the brink? The protesters swelling its streets sure seem to think so, following the Knesset’s passage of a law to restrict the Supreme Court’s use of the “reasonableness” standard. Analyst Carmiel Arbit notes that the court had been a bulwark against “Israel’s ultra-religious parties” implementing laws “to tyrannize its majority secular population”—but that check on the government is now in danger. So the debate over the very nature of the country is playing out in the streets. As the Supreme Court itself prepares to review challenges to the law, read all our expert takes on what to expect next in Israel. | | |
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