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2023 March

Tick Tock for TikTok?

Last Thursday, TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, testified in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as efforts to ban the app have picked up support among lawmakers. After a 5-hour testimony, Republican and Democrat lawmakers appeared unconvinced by Chew’s arguments as he tried to address their concerns regarding TikTok’s threat to national...

Walking the Bank

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) this month has sent shockwaves throughout the global tech sector — especially U.S. venture capital-backed science and tech firms, of which about half banked with SVB. This bank failure, which is the largest since the 2008 financial crisis, immediately caught the attention of federal regulators: the U.S. Treasury...

Indian Ambiguity

On March 10, Xi Jinping was re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of China, solidifying his control over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for another five years. While the election in China was performative, the message was heard loud and clear in Washington; China is not backing down and, under Xi, will continue...

Mexican Democracy Under the Gun

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Mexico City this week to protest changes to Mexico’s electoral laws promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. They say the reform – which introduces new limits on the oversight and sanctioning powers of the nonpartisan National Electoral Institute as well as cuts down its size and funding...