What Actually Mattered This Week: US-China Climate Pact, Belarus-Poland Border Crisis
WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
My thoughts on some of this week’s biggest news stories:
Excellent news, and a much-needed step forward on global climate action.
The Poland government doesn’t want the refugees. The Belarusians are happy to cause trouble. The Russians have been behind the scenes supportive and the Europeans with support from the US will expand sanctions in relatively short order. This is yet another flash point between the Europeans and Minsk and more significantly Moscow because the Lukashenko government isn't going anywhere.
It’s easier to win when you jail your top rivals.
TRUTHS, DAMNED TRUTHS, AND STATISTICS
US: developed best vaccines & acquired them fasted…but vaccination rate now lowest of advanced economies.
THE GZERO WORLD WE’RE JUST LIVING IN
GRAPHIC TRUTH
YOUR GZERO WORLD?
In recent years, as nuclear disarmament worldwide has slowed to a crawl, world powers are engaging in a new kind of arms race: a technological one. Today's nuclear threat is not about who has the most nukes, it's about who has the smartest ones. Arms control expert Kelsey Davenport joins me on GZERO World to talk about the world's long fascination with these horrible weapons and how close we still remain to all-out nuclear war.
For a longer, more in-depth version of my interview with Davenport, check out the GZERO World podcast.
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WORLD IN 60 SECONDS
US inflation hits its highest level in three decades. How will the Biden administration be impacted?
What's happening on the Poland-Belarus border?
What's the draft deal of the COP26 climate agreement?
Find out in this week’s World in 60 Seconds! ?
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BECAUSE THE INTERNET
Sad but true
WHAT TO READ THIS WEEK
Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End by Dave Pell
Word to the wise: Whatever happens, never lose your sense of humor. Even if you face a global plague and a threat to democracy. And racial tensions explode into the streets, and the Internet turns sane people insane, and there just isn’t enough toilet paper. Humor is the anti-Doomsday missile shield. There’s no better proof of this principle on bookshelves near you than Dave Pell’s “Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End.”?
DEEP THOUGHTS
“Aspire to inspire before you expire.” – Eugene Bell Jr.
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Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and foreign affairs columnist at TIME. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. You can follow him on?Twitter,?Facebook,?and?Instagram.
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