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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 5, 2024
United States
Election 2024: China’s Efforts to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China is following Russia’s lead in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
November 21, 2013
Iran
Friedman: There He Goes Again
Here’s an interesting quote: Never have I seen Israel and America’s core Arab allies working more in concert to stymie a major foreign policy initiative of a sitting U.S. president, and never have I…
April 17, 2008
China
Friedman: Chinese Believe Tibetans, Other Ethnic Groups Should be Incorporated into One China
Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."
December 14, 2011
United States
Mr. Friedman’s Diatribe Against Israel
Occasionally critics of the government of Israel and of its American supporters put aside polite talk and bare their souls, and that can be an edifying if deeply unattractive moment. Such a moment ar…
March 3, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa
Friedman’s List: What It May Mean Below the Sahara
A youth wearing a shirt of U.S. President Barack Obama stands in a crowd waiting for food distribution at Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, August 24, 2010. (Finbarr O'Reill…
October 5, 2023
Israel
The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later
Fifty years ago, on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel. The resulting conflict sparked an Arab oil embargo, a superpower confrontation, a global recessio…
