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Yasheng Huang, Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline (Yale University Press, 2023).

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  1. To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump
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    To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump

    Nov 15, 2024 Yasheng Huang urges the party to adopt a long-term strategy aimed at discrediting the MAGA ideology once and for all.

  2. How to Kill Chinese Dynamism
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    How to Kill Chinese Dynamism

    Aug 18, 2023 Yasheng Huang thinks many have underestimated the key role that Hong Kong previously played in the country's growth story.

  3. China's Moment of Decision
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    China's Moment of Decision

    Mar 7, 2022 Yasheng Huang explains why the country's lower-key, less moralistic approach to Russia may prove essential.

  4. Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition
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    Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition

    Dec 14, 2020 Yasheng Huang thinks psychology, rather than demographics, provides the key to contemporary US electoral politics.

  5. Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?
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    Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

    May 22, 2019 Yasheng Huang says Chinese policymakers should repair relations with the West rather than push large infrastructure projects.

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    Opposing Trump

    Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    With Donald Trump's administration constantly commanding the news cycle and throwing the entire world into chaos, what are the Democrats and the rest of the American opposition to do? The first step, former Polish dissident Adam Michnik says, is to understand what gave rise to the regime.

     about the new US administration and how pro-democracy forces can best confront it.
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    Will Qatari Gold Sink Netanyahu?

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    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to fire the country's internal security chief has raised suspicions, given that the move comes just after the launch of an investigation into a new scandal involving his own aides. Israelis are right to worry that they could now be heading for a constitutional crisis.

     explains the latest scandal to hit Israel's increasingly illiberal, norm-breaking government.
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    The US and Russia Are Negotiating in Bad Faith

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks the Kremlin is laying the groundwork for a highly favorable deal on the Ukraine war.
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    Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Demands More Than Competitiveness

    Marietje Schaake & Max von Thun warn that the European Union’s deregulatory push could undermine its autonomy and fundamental values.
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    How Should Africa Respond to Foreign-Aid Cuts?

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor touts the potential of foreign remittances to sustain public services as external support shrinks.
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    How Should China Respond to Trump’s Tariffs?

    Huang Yiping urges Chinese policymakers to fill the leadership vacuum created by America’s protectionist turn.
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    Who Will Drive the Post-American Global Economy?

    Jim O'Neill considers what other large economies can do to offset the effects of the Trump administration's trade warfare.
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    Health Is Wealth in a Geriatric World

    Hippolyte Fofack explains why increasing “healthspans” to match lifespans is a moral and economic imperative.
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    Europe’s Democrats Must Forge a Will to Fight

    Wojciech Przybylski & Goran Buldioski think European leaders' most urgent security task is to nurture citizens' resolve to defend their countries.

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