Hot Girl Briefing

Sources for Keep It Brief – 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Sources for this episode include the following:

Gabriel Crossley and Yew Lun Tian in “China condemns U.S. diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics” from Reuters
Alex Gangitano in “White House announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics” from The Hill
Euronews with AFP, AP in “Winter Olympics: Is your country doing a diplomatic boycott over China’s human rights record?” from Euronews
Dan Roan in “How much does the diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 matter?” from BBC News
Lisa Kim in “Denmark Latest Country To Join U.S. – Led Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics” from Forbes
Bonnie S. Glaser in “The 2022 Winter Olympics, Calls for Boycotts, and the Role of Sports in China” from The German Marshall Fund

Sources for this episode include the following:

Paul Kubicek in “Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership” from the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
Paul Kubicek in “Faulty Assumptions about Democratization in Turkey” from the Middle East Critique
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in “U.S. Relations With Turkey” from the U.S. Department of State
Central Intelligence Agency in “Turkey” from The World Factbook
Selcan Hacaoglu in “Turkey to Meet Armenia to Resolve Conflict in Russian Backyard” from Bloomberg
“Turkey’s inflation hits 36% amid financial turmoil” from BBC News
Soner Cagaptay in “Erdogan’s End Game” from Foreign Affairs
Freedom House authors in “Turkey” from Freedom House

Sources for this episode include the following:

Gabriela Baczynska in “NATO schedules special meeting with Russia amid Ukraine crisis” from Rueters
“Conflict in Ukraine” from Council on Foreign Relations
“Ukraine” from the Assessment Capacities Project or ACAPS
Cory Welt in “Ukraine: Background, Conflict with Russia, and U.S. Policy” from the Congressional Research Service
“S.814 – Ukraine Security Partnership Act of 2021” from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from congress.gov
Vlad Mykhnenko in “Causes and Consequences of the War in Eastern Ukraine: An Economic Geography Perspective” from Europe-Asia Studies
Steven Pifer in “Crimea: Six years after illegal annexation” from Brookings
David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt in “U.S. Details Costs of a Russian Invasion of Ukraine” from The New York Times

Sources for this episode include the following:

Mahua Venkatesh in “Will China’s rising debt problem hit its ambitious BRI projects?” from India Narrative
Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li in “With Property Sales Plunging, China Evergrande Faces More Protests” from The New York Times
“National debt in the US in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) 2016-2026” from statista
Peter Hoskin reporting in “Evergrande: China property giant misses debt deadline” from BBC News

Sources for this episode include the following:

World Population Review in “Countries That Recognize Taiwan 2021”
Ben Blanchard in “Taiwan says confident Chinese invasion would be very hard” from Reuters
CNBC in “Nicaragua breaks ties with Taiwan, switches allegiance to Beijing”
Trevor Filseth in “China Threatens Lithuania with Economic Exclusion Over Taiwan Spat” from The National Interest
BBC News in “What’s behind the China-Taiwan divide?”
Roland Benedikter in “Extremism and Ethnicity Part III – A Viable Model For Practical Solutions: South Tyrol” from global Policy

Sources for this episode include:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Trade, Investment and Finance Landscape”
Dr. Yu Jie and Jon Wallace in “What is China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)?” from Chatham House
Sofia Baruzzi in “The Belt & Road Initiative: Investments in 2021 and Future Outlook” from Silk Road Briefing
Global Development Policy Center from Boston University in “China’s Overseas Development Finance: Geospatial Data for Analysis of Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands”

Sources for this episode include the following:

D. A. Budiani-Saberi and F. L. Delmonico in “Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: A Commentary on the Global Realities” from the American Journal of Transplantation
Channing Mavrellis in “Transnational Crime and the Developing World from Global Financial Integrity
Sean Columb, Frederike Ambagtsheer, Michael Bos, Ninoslav Ivanovski, Gregory Moorlock, and Willem Weimar in “Re-conceptualizing the organ trade: seperating “trafficking” from “trade” and the implications for law and policy” from Transplant International
The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
The “Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018” from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Yosuke Shimazono in “The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information” from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Sources for this week include:

Sources for this episode include:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Trade, Investment and Finance Landscape”
Christoph Nedopil in “Countries of the Belt and Road Initiative” from the Green Finance & Development Center
Christoph Nedopil Wang in “China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2020 from the Green Finance & Development Center
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Sources for this update include:

BBC News in “Danny Fenster: US journalist freed from Myanmar jail”
Associated Press in “‘It’s over’: U.S. journalist Danny Fenster arrives in N.Y. after release from Myanmar prison”
DeJanay Booth in “Journalist Danny Fenster Returns Home To Metro Detroit After Myanmar Ordeal” from CBS Detroit