How Beijing Turned Its Food Insecurity Into Geopolitical Leverage; How Fragile States Can Fortify Themselves; The Case for a Strategic Investment Fund
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A supermarket in Beijing, October 2024

China’s Hunger Games

How Beijing Turned Its Food Insecurity Into Geopolitical Leverage

By Caitlin Welsh and Brian Hart

 

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At a World Food Programme distribution center in Dikwa, Nigeria, August 2025

The Path to Development in a Post-Aid World

How Fragile States Can Fortify Themselves

By Eghosa E. Osaghae

 
On the assembly line at an electric vehicle parts factory in St. Clair, Michigan, March 2025

How to Reindustrialize America

The Case for a Strategic Investment Fund

By Jake Sullivan

 

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The Small Suffer What They Must?

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