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Who's in the News

THE WASHINGTON POST

John Kelly Offered a Not-Very-Reassuring Adage About Diplomacy and War
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Philip Bump

At the White House news briefing on Thursday, Chief of Staff John F.
Kelly fielded questions from reporters aimed in part at tamping down
uncertainty about the security of his position in the administration.
At one point, he was asked what issues facing the nation kept him up
at night. "The good news is, out there we have a great State
Department doing the diplomacy thing night and day," he said.
But then he added something striking. "As Jim Mattis and I have
many, many times said when we were in uniform: If we don't fund
the State Department properly, buy us more bullets," he said.

CNN
This Year, the Day of the Girl Is Marked by a State of Emergency

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Gayle E. Smith, Pesident and CEO of the ONE Campaign and former USAID
Administrator

Over 130 million girls around the world didn't go to school today.
Millions more braved long distances and dangerous conditions to get to
classrooms whose teacher never arrived, or where there were no
textbooks or other materials to help them learn. This is not only an
injustice, but a crisis with far-reaching and long-lasting
consequences. Today is International Day of the Girl -- a day for the
world to pause and recognize the importance of girls in society. This
year, with so many girls deprived of an education, we're declaring a
state of emergency.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Lessons From the Sorry History of Steel Protectionism

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Bill Lane, former Director of Global Governmental Affairs at
Caterpillar Inc.

Aside from new tariffs on Canadian lumber, the protectionist
extravaganza many expected-including me-hasn't
materialized. They clearly don't want to wreck the economy by
starting a trade war, but at the same time they recognize Mr. Trump
still wants big tariffs on steel imports. The Commerce Department and
trade representative are looking at options, including aggressive
enforcement of existing trade laws and new quota-like remedies.
Fortunately everyone seems to realize that a misstep, such as a
flagrant imposition of tariffs or quotas, would certainly trigger
foreign retaliation against American farmers, ranchers and
manufacturers.

Development & Diplomacy

THE NEW YORKER
Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point |

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Dexter Filkins

Tillerson's reservations turned out to be well founded. His
tenure, like that of other members of Trump's Cabinet, has been
marked by strife and confusion. As Tillerson has struggled with
diplomatic crises in North Korea, Iran, Qatar, and elsewhere, Trump
has contradicted and even embarrassed him, usually by emphasizing
America's willingness to use force instead of diplomacy. In a
further slight, he has given Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, a broad
portfolio of international responsibilities typically reserved for the
Secretary of State. Tillerson, for his part, shows little evidence of
holding his Commander-in-Chief in high regard.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

For Dignity and Development, East Africa Curbs Used Clothes Imports |

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Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura

Now, a handful of countries here in East Africa no longer want the
foreign hand-me-downs dumped on them because they're trying to
manufacture their own clothes. But they say they're being
punished for it - by the United States. Here in East Africa,
Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Burundi have been
trying to phase out imports of secondhand clothing and shoes over the
last year, saying the influx of old items undermines their efforts to
build domestic textile industries. The countries want to impose an
outright ban by 2019.

THE WASHINGTON POST

China Treats Its Foreign Aid Like a State Secret. New Research Aims to
Reveal It |

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Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura

Since the turn of the century, China has become an unavoidable global
provider of foreign assistance, funding everything from opera houses
in Algeria to tobacco farms in Zimbabwe. Try to find in-depth data
about these projects, however, and you are mostly out of luck. China
treats its foreign assistance budget like a state secret, refusing to
work with international bodies that try to coordinate and quantify
foreign development funding. In part due to this paucity of
information, a reputation has spread among Western critics that China
is a "rogue donor" - one that lavishes illiberal
regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth. An
ambitious new research project released this week challenges that
assumption by producing the first-ever global data set on Chinese
overseas development spending between 2000 and 2014.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Rohingya Recount Atrocities: 'They Threw My Baby Into a
Fire' |

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Jeffrey Gettleman

Human rights investigators said that Myanmar's military killed
more than 1,000 civilians in the state of Rakhine, and possibly as
many as 5,000, though it will be hard to ever know because Myanmar is
not allowing the United Nations or anyone else into the affected
areas. Peter Bouckaert, a veteran investigator with Human Rights
Watch, said there was growing evidence of organized massacres, like
the one Rajuma survived, in which government soldiers methodically
slaughtered more than 100 civilians in a single location. He called
them crimes against humanity.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG
Gender Equality Starts on Sesame Street |
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Megan Rabbitt

On this International Day of the Girl Child we're shining a
spotlight on Proctor & Gamble and Sesame Workshop. They have teamed up
to break down barriers to education for the world's 1.1. billion
girls! The partnership features new videos with Sesame Street's
iconic Muppets, teaching our youngest generation that gender should
never stand in the way of getting an education or going after a career
inspiring girls around the world to dream big and study hard. And
because we know that lifting up girls will help to lift up entire
families and communities, this work has the potential to not only
create a brighter future for young girls today, but a better, safer,
and more prosperous world for us all.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG

Brookings Podcast: The Experts Break Down Issues Facing U.S. Foreign
Assistance |

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Megan Guilfoyle

The latest episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast delves into the
current challenges facing U.S. foreign assistance- including how
Americans perceive foreign aid, the role the United States plays in a
complex and turbulent world, and a deep dive into the current
consensus around restructuring and reforming the State Department and
USAID. Check out part one of the podcast- which includes
interviews with foreign policy experts like Former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, Former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley,
Blum Capital Founder & Chairman Richard C. Blum, USIP President Nancy
Lindborg, and USGLC's very own President & CEO Liz Schrayer.

Politics & Foreign Policy

FORBES

Inside Trump's Head: An Exclusive Interview With the President,
And The Single Theory That Explains Everything | |

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Randall Lane

Trump's bilateral world, of course, explains why foreign aid gets cut.
It comes with a huge downside. Deals score points, but deals don't
create long-term investments. It's impossible to think of something
like the Marshall Plan, which teed up more than six decades of peace
and prosperity, coming out of the Trump White House. To that, he
shrugs again. "For me, it's America first. We've been doing that so
long that we owe $20 trillion, okay?" Trump intends to run the country
more like the Trump Organization in other ways. Much has been made
about how slow he's been to nominate people to key positions. In the
State Department, for example, he has failed to put up names for more
than half of the comfirmable positions. That's apparently not an
accident. "I'm generally not going to make a lot of the appointments
that would normally be--because you don't need them," he says.

POLITICO
Trump Asks Congress to Fix Iran Deal's Flaws |

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Nahal Toosi and Louis Nelson

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will decertify the
Iran nuclear deal but will not urge Congress to immediately reimpose
nuclear-related sanctions on the country, instead calling for new
legislation that could trigger penalties down the line. He also
unveiled other initiatives aimed at reining in the longtime U.S.
nemesis, including plans for new sanctions on Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guard military corps over allegations that it supports
terrorism. The president predicated his new approach to the Islamic
Republic on a litany of bad behavior that he said includes Iran's
support for groups labeled by the U.S. as terrorist organizations and
its oppression of its own people.

THE WASHINGTON POST

For Some Foreign Diplomats, the Trump White House Is a Troubling
Enigma |

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Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe

After nearly nine months of the Trump administration, many of
America's closest allies have concluded that a hoped-for
"learning curve" they thought would make President Trump a
reliable partner is not going to happen. Senior diplomats and
officials from nearly a dozen countries in Europe, Latin America and
Asia expressed a remarkable coincidence of views in interviews over
the past several weeks. Asked to describe their thoughts about and
relations with the president and his team as the end of Trump's
first year approaches, many described a whirlwind journey beginning
with tentative optimism, followed by alarm and finally reaching
acceptance that the situation is unlikely to improve.

POLITICO
America's Shadow War in Africa |

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Wesley Morgan and Bryan Bender

America's little-known war on terrorists in Africa is becoming
more perilous as the U.S. deploys growing numbers of troops to the
continent's most lawless regions, including the part of Niger
where four special operations soldiers died in an ambush last week.
The escalation is occurring with little public debate - and,
some military experts say, too little attention from top
decision-makers in Washington. The U.S. military presence in the Sahel
and sub-Saharan regions has grown to at least 1,500 troops, roughly
triple the official number of American troops in Syria, according to
Pentagon and White House figures.


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