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The Decline of China and Taiwan Codels

Congressional travel to China has collapsed since the pandemic, and travel to Taiwan is now falling sharply as well. As the cohort of members with firsthand experience shrinks, fewer in Congress know China directly at precisely the moment it matters most.

Blog Post by Isabella McCallum and Ryan Featherston — September 4, 2026

K-Beauty’s Brazil Push Signals a New Type of Korean Diplomacy

K-Beauty has long been filed under soft power, a pleasant byproduct of the same Korean wave that carried K-pop and K-dramas abroad. However, it has since become a serious economic engine in its own right, transforming into a commercial asset that the government now negotiates for and regulates around. 

Blog Post by Nicole Choi — August 28, 2026

South Korea’s Strategic Capital Play

This blog chart shines a light on South Korea's $1.5 trillion in sovereign-fund assets and explores how it can be deployed to serve both financial and economic-security objectives.

Blog Post by Navin Girishankar, Karl Smith, Andrea Leonard Palazzi, and Joseph Lim — August 4, 2026

The Coordination Gap: Improving G7 Economic Sanctions Alignment

As the G7 turns increasingly to sanctions for the problems on which the Security Council is deadlocked, narrowing the gap between shared intent and aligned action is among the most tractable ways to make that pressure count.

Blog Post by Brad Spicher — July 27, 2026