The Weekly Leaf
This week, the 79th session of the UN General Assembly met; Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected Shigeru Ishiba as prime minister; the Biden administration announced an initiative to ban Chinese-developed software in connected cars due to national security concerns; and President Putin revealed proposed changes to the Kremlin’s nuclear weapons policy.
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This Week's Content Highlights
Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members
Anja Manuel for the Financial Times: “It’s Time for Limited, Mandatory Testing for AI”
Sylvia Burwell honored with the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix presented by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Michael Froman interviewed General CQ Brown, Jr. at the Council on Foreign Relations
Robert M. Gates for The Washington Post: “We Face Unprecedented Peril. The Pentagon and Congress Must Change Their Ways.”
Jane Harman quoted by David Leonhardt for The New York Times: “Global Threats”
David Ignatius for The Washington Post: “Sadness and Dread as the Next Lebanon War Looms”
David Petraeus and moderator David Satterfield at the Baker Institute: “Global Challenges and U.S. Interests: A Conversation With Gen. David Petraeus”
David E. Sanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg for The New York Times: “Biden Warns the World Is at an ‘Inflection Point’ Amid Global Crises”
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas Hale for Project Syndicate: “A Summit Caught Between Past and Future”
Tweet of the Week
Things to Know
Content Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions
Abdi Latif Dahir and Sarah Hurtes for The New York Times: “Sudan’s Army Launches Operation to Retake Capital”
Gabriel Dominguez and Jesse Johnson for The Japan Times: “Japan MSDF Warship Sails Through Taiwan Strait for First Time”
Edward Helmore for The Guardian: “Biden Administration Proposes Rules to Ban Chinese-Made Cars Over Spying Fears”
Ahmede Hussain for Foreign Policy: “Bangladesh Picks Up the Pieces After the Revolution”
Rory Jones for The Wall Street Journal: “How Israel’s Spies Got Blindsided by Hamas But Still Hit Hezbollah Hard”
Murali Krishnan for DW: “Will a New President Shift Sri Lanka's Foreign Policy?”
Joe Leahy and Arjun Neil Alim for the Financial Times: “China Lifts Markets With Promise of More Support for Economy”
Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Julia Mio Inuma for The Washington Post: “Japan’s Ruling Party Elects Shigeru Ishiba as New Prime Minister”
Matas Maldeikis for Euronews: “Russia Wants the World Divided and in Conflict. NATO Cannot Let This Happen”
Francis Mao for BBC News: “Putin Proposes New Rules for Using Nuclear Weapons”
Walter Mayr for Der Spiegel: “Albanian Leader Rama a Darling of Europe Despite Corruption Back Home”
Robin Wright for The New Yorker: “Iran’s New President Makes His UN Début as the Middle East Is in Flames”
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From the Archives
Revisit our conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the UN
Linda Thomas-Greenfield from the 2023 Aspen Security Forum.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative of the United States to the United Nations, U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Book of the Week
By Erik Brynjolfsson, Alex Pentland, Nathaniel Persily, Condoleezza Rice, and Angela Aristidou
“Just as the Federalist Papers of the 18th century analyzed the great challenges of the day and provided a roadmap of institutional innovation for the young nation, today, we need a similar ambition of imagination.
The Digitalist Papers aims to bridge domains and disciplines by assembling experts from multiple fields—including economics, law, technology, management, and political science—alongside industry, and civil society leaders. The series is curated by renowned scholars and leaders Erik Brynjolfsson, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Nathaniel Persily, and Condoleezza Rice, and features contributions from 19 thought leaders who bring their unique disciplinary expertise.”
Podcast of the Week
The Eastern Front: “Soft Power and the War in Ukraine (with Joseph Nye)”
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