Associate professors Magnus Fiskesjö, anthropology, and Allen Carlson, government, on China’s expected passage of a new law shifting policy away from regional ethnic autonomy.  

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Allen Carlson, associate professor of government and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says the episode illustrates how governments courting Beijing, amid frustration with Washington’s volatility, can find engagement with China difficult to manage.

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Lourdes Casanova, director of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University, says the ruling on serves as a visible bellwether for escalating U.S.–China competition in the Western Hemisphere.

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David Silbey is a professor of history at Cornell University, where he specializes in military history and defense policy. Despite tough talk from European leaders, Silbey says a NATO military response to the US annexation of Greenland would not happen.

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Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University, says the ruling is still unlikely to slow the administration’s broader push to deploy tariffs across economic and geopolitical fronts.

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Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government and expert on Chinese foreign policy, says Japan’s refusal to retract the remarks—despite some efforts to de-escalate—has left relations between the two countries the worst they've been in decades.

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Adam Murray, a beef cattle extension specialist at Cornell University, says this plan isn’t likely to have a significant impact on domestic beef prices.

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Vincent Intondi is an affiliated scholar at Cornell University who studies nuclear disarmament. He says many of Trump’s statements about other nations’ nuclear operations are not accurate, and he questions the president’s understanding of the full consequences of resuming nuclear testing.

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Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology at Cornell University and an expert on international populism, says the writing was on the wall for the no confidence vote.

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Rohit Lamba is a professor of economics at Cornell University and co-author of the book, “Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity.” He says Washington's tariffs are basically a sanction, stemming from New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil.

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