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The Weekly Leaf

Dec 2, 20224 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 12/2/22
The Weekly Leaf The 2022 Aspen Security Forum: D.C. Edition This Week’s Content Highlights Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 11/18/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, President Biden and President Xi met on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Bali, the world's population...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 11/11/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, COP27 kicked off in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the White House announced that President Biden will meet with...
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Nov 7, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 11/4/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned for his third term as president of Brazil after defeating Jair Bolsonaro,...
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Oct 28, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 10/28/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, the 25th Secretary of Defense and ASG member, Ashton B. Carter, passed away, Rishi Sunak became the Prime...
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Oct 21, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 10/21/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Liz Truss announced her resignation as U.K. Prime Minister and Xi Jinping opened the 20th Communist Party...
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Oct 14, 20223 min read
The Weekly Leaf: 10/14/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, the Biden administration released its National Security Strategy, the NATO defense ministers met in Brussels,...
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Oct 7, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 10/7/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, OPEC Plus announced a plan to cut oil production by two million barrels a day, the U.S., Japan, and South...
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Sep 30, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 9/30/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Giorgia Meloni came out victorious in the Italian elections, both Nord Stream pipelines were damaged by...
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Sep 23, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 9/23/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Vladimir Putin announced a 'partial mobilization' of Russian reserve troops, anti-regime protests broke out...
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Sep 16, 20222 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 9/16/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Ebrahim Raisi, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, Narendra Modi, and other leaders met in...
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Sep 9, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 9/9/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the age of 96, U.S. intelligence reported that Russia is...
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Sep 2, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 9/2/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Mikhail Gorbachev passed away at the age of 91, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan has affected 33 million...
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Aug 26, 20222 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 8/26/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, the U.S. and South Korea executed their largest joint military exercise in five years, Ukraine's Independence...
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Aug 19, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 8/19/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and UN...
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Aug 12, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 8/12/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 was signed into law bolstering U.S. semiconductor development and...
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Aug 5, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 8/5/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, China fired missiles toward waters near Taiwan as tensions escalated following Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the...
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Jul 8, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 7/8/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Boris Johnson announced his resignation as U.K. Conservative Party leader, the Russian army captured Luhansk,...
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Jul 1, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 7/1/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Finland and Sweden were formally invited to join NATO, Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong to mark the 25th...
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Jun 24, 20223 min read
The ASG Weekly Leaf: 6/24/22
The Weekly Leaf This week, Ukraine and Moldova were granted candidate status by the EU, President Emmanuel Macron lost his parliamentary...
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