Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Africa this week with stops in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. He is the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit sub-Saharan Africa as parts of the continents struggle with military coup attempts and destabilization.

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David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. In addition to sending a message to North Korea, he says the subs also represent a tightening circle around China.

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Thomas Jungbauer is a professor of strategy and business economics at Cornell University, he says the move puts a significant dent in Microsoft’s plans to take a unanimous leadership in the cloud-gaming market.

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Geoffrey Abers is a geophysicist and chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and says this earthquake was particularly destructive because it occurred on land at shallow depths in the Earth’s crust.

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Gustavo Flores-Macias is a professor of government at Cornell University and an expert in Latin American politics. He says the United States has relatively few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes.

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Emmanuel Macron will retain the French presidency for another five years after defeating Marine Le Pen by 17 percentage points, but she secured the far right's highest share of the vote yet.

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Christopher Barrett is an agricultural and development economist whose research centers on food insecurity and global food markets. He says the import bans would only provide only short-term support for those nations’ farmers, while inflicting considerable harm on Ukraine.

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has landed in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island. 

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Ukraine has utilized drones in its vigorous defense against Russia’s invasion, and now the Biden administration is sending Switchblades to the country as part of a new $800 million weapons package.

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Paul Lushenko is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and a senior policy fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Lab, he says the revelation that the Chinese balloon was in fact used for spying suggests several considerations for the evolving Sino-U.S. relationship. 

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