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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Jon Huntsman, Jim Matheson Lead Group Pushing for More Foreign Aid |

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Matt Canham

A bipartisan group of Utah's political heavyweights, business
executives, military brass and education leaders is pushing for an
expansion in foreign aid and international diplomatic programs. The
effort is an extension of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and in
Utah it's led by former Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican, and former
U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, a Democrat. "What happens around the world
absolutely affects us here in Utah and strategic investments in global
development strengthen our national security, demonstrate our
humanitarian values and create jobs here at home," Huntsman said in a
statement announcing the 55-person Utah advisory committee.

Campaign 2016

THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Really Bad Deal for America

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Eliot Cohen, former counselor to the U.S. State Department

This campaign shows that the foreign policy consensus that has framed
this country's work overseas since 1950 is in peril. The left wing of
the Democratic Party believes in it no more than does Mr. Trump. That
consensus, with its attempt to reconcile values and interests,
prudence with action, needs to be articulated and championed. The
public must hear why American leadership abroad is essential to our
prosperity and freedom at home. There is a wide gulf between those who
have thought hard about and worked on the challenge of American global
leadership and those who assure the American people that foreign
policy can be reduced to "don't do stupid stuff." Today, the
Trump and Obama versions of that sentiment are ascendant. It is the
task of those of us in the foreign policy field, Republican and
Democrat alike, to make the case that they are profoundly, dangerously
wrong.

PEW RESEARCH CENTER
Clinton, Sanders Supporters Differ Sharply on U.S. Global Role |

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Rob Suls

Two-thirds (66%) of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered
voters who support Clinton for the party's presidential nomination say
that world problems would be even worse without U.S. involvement; just
28% say U.S. efforts usually make things worse. By contrast, Sanders
supporters are divided: 49% say global problems would be even worse
without the U.S. being involved, while nearly as many (45%) say U.S.
efforts usually make matters worse. Sanders supporters also are less
likely than Democratic voters who back Clinton to say that the U.S.
should help other countries deal with their problems (41% vs. 52%). A
majority of those who prefer Sanders (54%) say that the U.S. should
deal with its own problems and let other countries deal with their own
problems as best they can, while 45% of Clinton supporters hold this
view.

POLITICO
Lt. Gen. Flynn: I'm Trying to Improve Trump's Foreign Policy Talk |

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Nolan McCaskill

"First of all, I don't agree with everything that he said. But he's an
individual who's willing to take on a challenge," the retired
lieutenant general, a former President Barack Obama appointee who
advises Trump on foreign policy, told Al Jazeera English's "UpFront."
"The other aspect is there must be more precision in the use of the
language that he uses as the potential leader of the free world. There
has to be more precision, and those are the types of pieces of advice
that I'm trying to get into him to say [to] be more precise, be more
conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues because they
are complicated."

Who's in the News

TRADEWINDS
Women's Work: Rebuilding Rwanda Through Trade

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Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative

During a few months in 1994, 800,000 Rwandan men, women and children
were killed. The population that was left was 70 percent female,
leaving it largely to women to take on the work of rebuilding the
devastated country. One of those women, and a hero of Rwanda's
rebuilding, was Aloisea Inyumba. As minister of Social Affairs,
Inyumba argued that the shared experience of overcoming economic
hardship was a healing agent. "We are using poverty as a concept
of reconciliation," she said. "Together, we can put up a house,
build a new country, and ensure that nothing like the genocide happens
ever again."

THE HUFFINGTON POST
Lessons Not Yet Learned: Ebola, Zika and Global Health Security

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Senator Ed Markey, junior Senator from Massachusetts

The international community is once again calling for a united front
to a new global health threat. We need to put in place a system that
can rapidly mobilize against infectious diseases instead of relying on
a fragmented, reactive approach each time a crisis appears. Our lack
of an immediate financial response to Zika has already left us at a
disadvantage against the inevitable infiltration of the virus here in
America. But it's not too late to build a cohesive plan that
establishes a permanent system and protocols for when the next health
crisis emerges. Let's appoint a single entity to coordinate a U.S.
response to health care epidemics. Let's build a national strategy
against communicable diseases by investing in our agencies with the
capacity to develop tests, vaccine candidates, and educational tools.
Let's strengthen communication and collaboration with our
international partners so that we truly are ready to detect, prevent,
and respond to Zika and the next threat. Let us not wait until the
next global health crisis to develop a lasting solution that
reinforces global health security for decades to come.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
Ending Poverty Means Closing the Gap Between Women and Men

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Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Directorof
the World Bank

Gaps in what we know about women and girls are huge, particularly in
the poorest countries. This makes the task of diagnosing challenges,
designing solutions, and benchmarking progress far more difficult. The
Bank Group is working with UN agencies and other partners to address
these data gaps-in vital statistics, asset ownership, time use,
labor, health, welfare, and uptake of financial services. Data gaps
are particularly acute among the world's poorest countries where more
equality for women and girls will have a critical impact on poverty.
Other data initiatives include Women, Business and the Law, Global
Findex, the new Identification for Development Initiative, and support
to the private sector to collect sex-disaggregated data. Smart
investments and sound policies that advance gender equality will be
game-changers in building a more resilient, peaceful, and prosperous
world. We know much better what works to achieve our goals-and
the World Bank Group is resolved and ready to work with partners to
get there.

Development & Diplomacy

THE HUFFINGTON POST
The Zika Virus: Pandemic Preparedness is Needed Now

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Susan Blumenthal, former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General

On May 6, 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the
establishment of the UN Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund, which
will provide a rapid, flexible, and accountable platform to support a
coordinated a response to support the global Zika Strategic Response
Framework and Joint Operations Plan in consultation with UN agencies,
partners, and international public health experts. Donors will
contribute to a central "fund" and an Advisory Committee will direct
funds to priority activities and programs. This is an important step
forward but this Fund should be established as a permanent entity for
supporting the global response to all emerging infectious disease
threats. The response to infectious diseases must be fought as if the
battle against epidemics were wars against international enemies. This
was the framework for America's response to Ebola overseas and
in the U.S, and now Brazil's strategy for addressing Zika includes
military personnel and public officials who coordinate and mobilize
supplies, conduct surveillance activities, build hospitals, oversee
community efforts and establish emergency response operations centers.

NPR
You Can Have Our Millions - But First You Must Pass Our Test |

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Marc Silver

MCC, as it's called, is a U.S. government foreign aid agency created
by Congress in 2004 to fight global poverty... To be selected for aid
that can help reduce poverty, countries are evaluated by a scorecard
drawn from third party data gathered by groups like Freedom House, the
World Bank and UNICEF. If there are concerns - say, evidence of
corruption or a lack of democratic rights - then a country would
not be eligible for an MCC compact. So far, MCC has signed compacts
with 32 countries and handed out about $11 billion. The average
compact is around $350 million.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Stealing from Ebola to Fight Zika |

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Editorial Board

The money in the House bill would be available only until the end of
September, when the fiscal year ends. That cutoff seems to assume that
Zika will no longer be a problem by then, an absurdly risky line of
reasoning that most health experts do not accept. Cutting off funds
that early would also severely hamper the effort to create a Zika
vaccine, which is expected to take more than a year to develop and
test. Some ultraconservative House Republicans have said that they do
not consider Zika a major health crisis. Perhaps they have yet to see
(or, more distressingly, they deliberately ignore) the photographs of
babies born with small heads because of the virus. Or perhaps they do
not think of this as an emergency worthy of their attention because
those babies were not born in the United States or to their
constituents.

HIGH PLAINS JOURNAL
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY2017 Ag Bill

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The legislation recommends... $1.6 billion for Food for Peace grants,
which support the delivery of American-grown food to foreign countries
experiencing chronic hunger crises. The McGovern-Dole International
Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program is maintained at FY2016
levels, and includes $10 million for the Local and Regional Food Aid
Procurement at the Foreign Agriculture Service. The bill also includes
$1.5 million to open an overseas post in Cuba.

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Report Predicts Trans-Pacific Pact Will Boost Economy, But Passage
Still Uncertain in U.S. |

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Don Lee

The 792-page report by the U.S. International Trade Commission,
released Wednesday after months of public comment and much
anticipation, said that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was likely to
boost U.S. annual real income by $57.3 billion by 2032. That amounts
to an increase of 0.23% compared with what income would be without the
agreement... U.S. exports would grow under the agreement, but imports
would increase even more, although American firms would see a
significant net gain in trade with new free-trade partners in the
Pacific pact, which includes Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam. By year 15
of the agreement, the commission projected, U.S. employment would be
128,000 jobs higher annually, although that amounts to just 0.07% more
than the baseline projections... Michael Froman, Obama's top trade
official who brought the Pacific deal to completion in November, noted
that the report's quantitative projections do not include non-tariff
benefits in the pact, such as rules that would help U.S. firms better
protect intellectual property, secure a freer and more open Internet
for commerce, and face less red tape and unfair competition from
state-subsidized foreign competitors.


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