U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 18. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images |
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Nineteen months on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations continues to struggle with Moscow’s presence as a permanent member of the Security Council. As the General Assembly kicks off this week in New York, the question looming is whether the U.N. is paralyzed or if it can still bring nations together to advance policy. FP’s Ravi Agrawal put exactly this to Linda Thomas-Greenfield on FP Live last Friday. Find out what the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations thinks about the current state of the organization—and learn Washington’s No. 1 priority for this General Assembly. Watch the interview on demand, and afterward, read more about all the perks of belonging to Insider, our highest membership tier. FP’s own convenings in New York start today. There’s a full agenda of briefings and forums on issues including the global energy transition, food security and sustainability, pandemic preparedness, universal health coverage, and the implications of digital transformation across the world. Last-minute speaker additions include U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack at tomorrow’s Food+ Forum and COP28 Director-General Majid al-Suwaidi at the FP Energy Forum on Thursday. Join us to close out the week with a live taping of FP’s Global Reboot podcast, featuring an interview with Kelly T. Clements, the U.N. deputy high commissioner for refugees. And for more on all things United Nations, check out FP’s guide to what to expect at UNGA, watch an FP Live interview with U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power on her agency’s priorities for the General Assembly, and don’t forget to dive into our current print issue. If multilateralism is dead, we asked, what are the alliances that matter now? Consider it counter-programming for the busy days ahead.—The Editors |
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- Putin-Kim Summit: Last week’s meeting between the leaders of Russia and North Korea showcased just how transactional the nations’ relationship has become, Ankit Panda argues. “Unlike typical leader-level summitry, the two chose not to issue any kind of joint statement hinting at what they may have discussed or agreed to,” Panda writes. “The optics of their meeting, however, along with other recent high-level diplomatic engagements between the two countries, were much more overt.” Interested in this topic? Add North Korea to your My FP profile.
- Two Years of Ones & Tooze: On the latest episode of Ones & Tooze, FP columnist Adam Tooze and deputy editor Cameron Abadi toast two years of analyzing the global economy. To celebrate the occasion, Adam tackles listeners’ questions on China, discussing the risk of Beijing going on the offensive economically, the legacy of communism, U.S.-China commercial relations, and more. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss Part 2 this Friday.
- The End of America’s Middle East: In his latest for Foreign Policy, Hisham Melhem a
China Brief: A U.K. parliamentary aide is arrested on suspicion of spying for China, China’s defense minister is missing from public, Beijing plans an iPhone ban across government bodies and other state organizations, and more. Read the latest edition. South Asia Brief: The Maldives prepares for a presidential runoff with consequences for great-power competition, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could return from self-exile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up a rocky trip to New Delhi, and more. Read the latest edition. Africa Brief: Gabon’s palace coup is starkly different from Niger’s, Morocco is slow to accept aid offers after devastating earthquake, a deadly drone strike in Sudan’s capital, Ivory Coast seeks to renegotiate price of ethical chocolate with the EU, and more. Read the latest edition. Latin America Brief: Chile revisits its 1973 coup, feminists celebrate a major Mexican court ruling on abortion rights, and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro gets cozy with a cautious China. Read the latest edition. |
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The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. U.S. soccer negotiations for gender parity. How Kofi Annan mediated a political crisis in Kenya. Season 3 of The Negotiators, a production from Doha Debates and Foreign Policy, is out now, with all new stories from people resolving some of the world’s most dramatic conflicts. Follow and listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
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Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court on Thursday handed down a sentence of how many years to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the capital in January? |
You can find the answer to this question and learn more at the end of this email. |
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The Dilemmas of Deterrence |
A view from the cockpit shows a KC-130J aerial refueler en route from Williamtown, Australia, to Darwin at sunset on July 12. Zuri Linetsky for Foreign Policy |
This summer, Zuri Linetsky, a research fellow at the Eurasia Group Foundation, embedded for a week with a Marine Corps F-35C squadron nicknamed the “Black Knights” in the Pacific to get a firsthand look at the United States’ strategy to avoid a military conflict with China. Flying over the Australian Outback at night in a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J aerial refueler, the scene outside the cockpit is a featureless sea of black. The instrument panels are backlit in neon green. The radio crackles in my ear over the baritone drone of the aircraft’s four propellers. Lt. Col. Courtney O’Brien (call sign Britney) alerts me to two fighter planes approaching from the rear. The KC-130J deploys fuel lines from tanks on both wings as incoming Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II fighter jets extend their fuel probes to begin aerial refueling. I watch as digital displays on five fuel gauges slowly tick down from 50,000 pounds to just under 20,000. As the F-35C’s disconnect and drop away, a core challenge to U.S. strategic objectives across the Pacific theater comes into focus. To operate across this vast region and prepare for a potential conflict with near-peer competitors, the U.S. military needs shrewd solutions for complex logistical puzzles of time and distance… Read the full report from Linetsky’s trip. Also: Don’t miss the latest from FP’s Jack Destch on China’s efforts to provoke and harass smaller nations out of the South China Sea. |
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