CHIPS Act Passed; Tory Leadership Contest; Navigation Plan 2022; Lavrov in Africa; Dynamics of Japan’s LDP; Speaker Pelosi’s Planned Taiwan Trip — Welcome to the final Friday News Roundup of July. As Congress approaches its August recess, Congressional leadership has been making a mad dash to wrap up legislation. The big stateside news of this week was the passage of the CHIPS Act (which Dan discusses in detail in his roundup contribution)…

SIS Assessment of Russian Losses; Turkish Participation in Tehran Summit; What Putin Wants from Iran; Jair Bolsanaro and Brazil’s October Election; What we know about Abe’s assassination; Europe’s Heatwave and Energy Politics — Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday News Roundup in the penultimate Friday of July. Despite the dog days of summer, the CSPC team has been busy with plenty in the media and a roundup jam-packed with analysis this week.

U.S. Commitment to Strategic Competition; LCS Funding Debate; Uzbekistan Unrest Aftermath; FBI and MI5 on Chinese Economic Subversion; African Regional Medical Emergency Hubs — Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday news roundup on July 15. The House and Senate were both in session this week — the former will be in session through the end of the month, while the latter is scheduled to be in session through the first…

Requiem for Shinzo Abe; Boris Johnson Resigns; Milestone in Russian Donbas Offensive; Issues in Military Recruiting; The U.S. and Lithium-Ion Batteries — Welcome to this week’s edition of the CSPC Friday News Roundup on July 8, 2022. This morning, we woke up to news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed at a campaign stop. The attack happened in the city of Nara, where Abe was delivering a…

A new security order in Europe; NATO Strategic Concept; 1937 Moment; Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment; Post Roe America — Hello from a sweltering Washington, D.C. on the first Friday of July. As we look forward to a long Independence Day weekend (and wish all our friends to the north a happy Canada Day), we at CSPC would like to take this moment to wish you a happy July 4th…

Roe Overturned; Real Solutions for Economic Bottlenecks; State of the UK Army; Artillery in the Ukraine War; Russia-Kazakhstan Relations; Shangri-La Dialogue & U.S.-China Differences — It is the final Friday of June in Washington, D.C., where the Supreme Court has issued a seismic decision. From behind sets of barriers, a 5–4 decision has overturned Roe and Casey, which have defined abortion rights in the United States for decades. Along with the rulings handed down this…

Where’s the strategy?; Vaccine Production in Africa; Japan’s Regional Power; Reflections across the USA — Friday greetings from Washington where the weather can best be described as soupy. The outlook is equally hazy for Senate compromise in the wake of recent mass shootings. With the bipartisan group of Senators agreeing to the framework for a deal, there is a window for success, but the proverbial…

Boris Johnson Hangs On, For Now; Breaking Russia’s Grain Blockade; Resolution on SEPs; Friendsourcing; Japan Pivots to the West — Friday greetings from Washington, D.C., where the January 6th Select Committee met in televised prime time hearings to recount the events of the insurrection, with new footage, testimony, and details about the former president’s extraordinary efforts to remain in office. While most of the coverage — and those counterprogramming the…

Hunting Forward; Indo-Pacific Tightrope; DoD on Connectivity; Washington System 4.0; WHA Negotiations — Welcome to this week’s Friday news roundup at the end of the first week of June. While those of us who live in DC have been sweltering in a heat wave this week, there is still plenty of news to discuss. This week, the debate on gun control continues to…