Nicolas van de Walle is a professor of government with special focus on the democratization of Africa; and the politics of economic reform. He notes the coup is surprising given that Gabon has been a stable civilian dictatorship since independence, with firm control over the military. 

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Kenneth Roberts is a professor of comparative and Latin American politics at Cornell University, he says China has emerged as an increasingly important economic power in Central America.

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Anil Menon is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, where his research focuses on the historical and political legacies of trauma. He says it is important to put these threat assessment headlines in context.

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Washington D.C.

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Tom Pepinsky is a professor of government and director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, he says the deal is a major development in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.

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Arts & Humanities

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Jessica Chen Weiss is a professor of China and Asia-Pacific studies at Cornell University, she says Xi's visit will try to balance two very conflicting priorities.

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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, he says the document leak will have widespread tactical and diplomatic repercussions.

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Richard T. Clark is a political scientist who studies policymaking at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Given the IMF’s prior hesitance to give to countries at war, he says the question at hand, is why the agreement came now rather than earlier in the crisis.

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With the 20th National Congress of China’s Communist Party over, the country has finally reported that its third-quarter gross domestic product grew, beating expectations.

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John Blevins, guest lecturer in Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business, focuses on technology-driven market changes, strategic management and leadership in the tech sector.

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Paul Lushenko is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and senior policy fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Lab, he says there are several potential reasons as to why balloons have thrust back into the spotlight.

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