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USGLC in the News

MONTGOMERY ADVISER
Roby Pushes Fair Trade, National Security at Global Forum |

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Rebecca Burylo

Fair trade deals, foreign policy and the looming election took center
stage at Wednesday's U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's forum where
Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery was the keynote speaker. The inaugural
forum was organized at the Renaissance hotel downtown to discuss how
America can strengthen its leadership abroad against ISIS and create
jobs on the home-front. While Roby believes "government is not the
answer for all ills," she said the world does look to the United
States and its government for leadership whether it's fighting evil or
fighting global poverty.

THE SENTINEL
Pa. Leaders Talk Global Engagement |

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Zack Hoopes

The organization convened at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel &
Convention Center in Camp Hill on Oct. 28, to discuss the continued
importance of U.S. engagement in shaping global economic development
and diplomacy - and how that effort impacts Pennsylvania. In
noting that foreign aid and development funding consists of less than
1 percent of the federal budget, the USGLC panelists pressed that the
benefits of such spending - in terms of military security and
economic opportunities - far outweigh the cost.

2016 Campaign

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Why Russia Will Remain the Centerpiece of US Foreign Policy After the
Elections

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Dr. Ariel Cohen is a Nonresident Senior Fellow for the Atlantic
Council.

With the final stretch of the U.S. presidential elections upon us,
Russia's challenge in Syria has rapidly developed into a
centerpiece of the foreign policy debate. The candidates need to
formulate a clear vision of how to deal with Moscow. The next
president should ensure that Russia reverses its global challenge
against the United States and the West. Moscow should fully implement
the Minsk II agreement on Ukraine, stop its military buildup, and
fully cooperate in Syria. Only then can the sanctions on Russia be
lifted - and only then can relations improve, to the benefit of
both sides.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Foreign Policy Bipartisanship Is the Future Under Hillary Clinton |

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Lawrence Haas

Across the foreign policy establishment, key Democratic and Republican
figures are coalescing around a more robust approach to foreign
affairs that reflects Hillary Clinton's longstanding view of how the
United States should operate on the world stage. Meanwhile, by virtue
of the people who occupy key positions in Congress, and presuming they
continue to do so, the pieces will be in place for more bipartisan
policymaking between the president and Congress.

FOREIGN POLICY

The 2016 Election Turned the Politics of Foreign Policy on Its Head |

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Molly O'Toole and Dan De Luce

Although Trump's stance is ever evolving on a host of
foreign-policy issues and lacking a coherent political philosophy, the
Republican nominee loosely calls for a nativist neoisolationism he has
dubbed "America First," harking back to the origins of the
phrase in the 1940s. Trump's rhetoric is openly hostile to the
vision pursued by Republican presidents dating back to Dwight
Eisenhower. That vision saw the United States as a global superpower,
promoting and protecting free markets and free trade while wielding
diplomacy and military might to defend its interests and allies.

Who's in the News

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Haiti Is Facing a Humanitarian Crisis We Can Solve - So Why
Aren't We?

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Michael Nyenhuis is the President and CEO of AmeriCares, Nancy Aossey
is the President and CEO of International Medical Corps, Tiffany R.
Kuehner is the Chair of Hope for Haiti, and Carolyn Miles is the
President and CEO of Save the Children.

Of the many humanitarian crises challenging the world today, none is
as solvable as the human disaster that Hurricane Matthew has wrought
in southwestern Haiti. The threats to human life in Haiti's Sud
and Grand Anse departments are entirely within our grasp to address
immediately: starvation, exposure and disease-cholera, from
contaminated water. And we have the solution at hand: food, shelter,
clean water, medicine and sanitation supplies.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Melinda Gates Focuses the World's Largest Foundation on Gender |

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Julia Reed

In June, Melinda Gates took the stage at the American Enterprise
Institute's Washington, D.C., headquarters for a chat with the
think tank's president, Arthur Brooks. She explains, as she has
many times before, the "why" of the eponymous foundation
she and her husband, Bill Gates, co-chair from their home base in
Seattle: "The world doesn't treat all lives as if they
have equal value, and we thought there was something that a foundation
could do about that." She says, not surprisingly, that they
pursue this guiding principle with a commitment to technology,
innovation and data.

Development & Diplomacy

NPR
When Disaster Strikes, Aid Groups Often Strike Out. Why? |

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Malaka Gharib

Over the past few years, researchers have found that big aid groups
haven't been able to meet the needs of people in crisis in places from
Haiti to Syria to South Sudan - even though there are more
relief groups now than ever before. Some analysts, such as Sara
Pantuliano, managing director of the Overseas Development Institute, a
global development think tank based in London, have been wondering: Is
there a better way? The answer is yes, Pantuliano says, but aid groups
may not like what they hear. Pantuliano, a 20-year veteran of the
industry, spoke to NPR during a break from last week's conference
hosted by USAID and the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in
Washington, D.C.

THE HILL
A Banner Year for U.S. Leadership on Aid Effectiveness

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George Ingram is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development
program at the Brookings Institution. Carolyn Miles is the president
and CEO of Save the Children. Connie Veillette is a senior fellow for
global food security and aid effectiveness at The Lugar Center.

With Election Day next week and the end of this Congress in sight, it
seems a fitting time to take a look back at this past year and the
many bipartisan accomplishments to strengthen U.S. foreign assistance.
At less than one percent of the federal budget, U.S. development
programs improve lives around the world and are vital to our national
interests. To be effective, these programs need to be transparent and
monitored and evaluated properly, and they need to be responsive to
the priorities of people in partner countries. To this end, the
Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a coalition of
international development and foreign policy practitioners and
experts, has united behind a reform agenda to make U.S. development
policy and practice more effective and sustainable through greater
accountability and country ownership.

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Health and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Miracles

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Thomas J. Bollyky is a Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and
Development, and Eric Goosby is a UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis and
Former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

The great journalist and former CEO of the ONE Campaign Michael
Elliott, who died earlier this year, called this era in global health
"the age of miracles." Even amid concerns over recent
infectious disease outbreaks and rising rates of antimicrobial
resistance, it is hard to argue against the remarkable progress made
over the last fifteen years. Global deaths from malaria and
tuberculosis (TB) declined 48 percent and 47 percent, respectively,
over this period. Maternal mortality dropped 43 percent. Deaths for
children under five have halved, which means nineteen thousand fewer
of these children die each day.

Politics & Foreign Policy

CNBC
Opposing Trade Agreements is Dangerous for the Economy

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Michael L. Ducker is FedEx Freight President and CEO.

International trade is getting its fair share of attention this
campaign season. Unfortunately it's not getting a fair shake.
Candidates from both parties express caution or outright opposition to
trade and our country's trade agreements. The fact is trade is good
for and critical to the American economy. Exports create new markets
for American-made products while imports help American families
stretch their budgets by providing more choices and lower prices.
Although the U.S. is the world's largest economy, 92 percent of global
economic growth and 80 percent of the world's purchasing power are
outside of the U.S., according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That
means that trading with the world isn't an option. It's a necessity.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Philippines' Deal With China Pokes a Hole in U.S. Strategy |

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Jane Perlez

For years, the United States and its allies have struggled to contain
China's ambitions in the South China Sea, even as China steadily
seeded the waters with artificial islands and military installations.
Now, by cutting its own deal with China, the Philippines has suddenly
changed the calculus, persuading the Chinese to let its fishermen
operate around a disputed shoal but setting a worrying precedent for
the United States and its hopes of using regional alliances to
preserve its place as the dominant power in the Pacific.

CNN
Putin Declares 10-Hour 'Humanitarian Pause' for Aleppo |

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Euan McKirdy, Alla Eshchenko and Schams Elwazer

Russian President Vladimir Putin has unilaterally declared a 10-hour
"humanitarian pause" for Aleppo on Friday, a senior Russian official
said Wednesday. "A decision was made to introduce a humanitarian pause
in Aleppo on November 4 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (3 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET),"
chief of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov said in a statement
on Wednesday. The latest truce comes as fighting in the beleaguered
city grows ever more deadly, with rebel assaults on regime-held parts
of Aleppo claiming 84 lives over the weekend, the Syrian military said
Monday.

REUTERS

White House Study: China Trade Deal Worsens Damage From TPP Failure |
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David Lawder

The Obama administration issued a fresh warning on Thursday about the
dangers of Congress failing to pass its Asian trade deal, saying that
millions of U.S. jobs could be at risk if a rival China-led trade pact
is enacted. As they gear up for one last push to persuade Congress to
pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the two months following
Tuesday's elections, senior administration officials said 35 U.S.
industrial sectors would lose substantial ground to Chinese
competitors in the Japanese market alone.


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