In The News: May 5, 2023

‘In the News’ is a roundup of recent media coverage featuring the Johns Hopkins SAIS community and is produced and distributed by the Office of Marketing and Communications.

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: TREASURY SECRETARY YELLEN'S SPEECH AT SAIS

• Biden’s Economic Diplomacy Push with China is High Risk, Low Reward. The Washington Post, 4/26

• Janet Yellen Warns US Decoupling from China Would Be Disastrous. Financial Times, 4/20

• America Has Dictated Its Economic Peace Terms to China. Foreign Policy, 4/24

• Yellen: U.S. Decoupling From China Would be a 'Disaster', But China-U.S. economic Relationship Should Be 'Constructive and Fair'. (Chinese) Guancha, 4/21

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen Warns that Decoupling from China Would be a 'Disaster'. (Chinese) ChinaNews, 4/21

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Seeks Cooperation, Airs Complaints In Major Speech On China. Forbes, 4/20

• US Treasury Chief Says Separation from Chinese Economy Would Be 'Disastrous'. Anadolu Ajansı, 4/20

• Yellen Calls for Better US-China Relations as Tensions Rise. The Independent, 4/20

• Yellen Says US Seeks 'Healthy Competition' with China, Eyes Beijing Trip. Reuters, 4/20

• Yellen Calls for 'Constructive and Fair' US Economic Ties with China. DailyMail, 4/20

• Janet Yellen Says U.S. Economic Competition with China Must be ‘Fair to Both Sides’. CNBC, 4/20

• Yellen Raps China for Serving as 'Roadblock' in Debt Restructuring Process. Reuters, 4/20

• Yellen's New Strategy in U.S.-China Economic Diplomacy. Axios, 4/20

• Janet Yellen Says the US and China ‘Need to Find a Way to Live Together,’ But She’s Kind of Suggesting They’re Not. Fortune, 4/20

• Security Comes First in U.S.-China Economic Relations, Says Treasury Secretary Yellen. NPR, 4/20

• Secretary Yellen Says National Security May Come at a Cost in US-China Relationship. CNN, 4/20

• Yellen Says US Seeks ‘Constructive’ Economic Ties with China. Al Jazeera, 4/20

• Janet Yellen Says Security Comes Before Economy in U.S.-China Relationship. The Wall Street Journal, 4/20

FACULTY U.S. & INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

• Democracy or Authoritarianism and Upcoming Turkish Elections. Assistant Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Lisel Hintz interviewed on Project on Middle East Political Science podcast, 5/5

• South Korea, US Should Aim to Render North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Useless. Dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies James B. Steinberg quoted in Asia News, 5/4

• Graduate Programs in International Relations: What to Know. Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Filipe Campante quoted in U.S News and World Report, 5/3

• Everyday Politics of Neo-Conservatism: Cooking Shows, Islamic Fashion, and Consumption in Turkey. Lisel Hintz interviewed on Paradigma podcast, 5/2

• This is What China is Striving for - "Moscow's All-Consuming". (Finnish) Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko quoted in Verkkouutiset, 5/2

• International Relations with Nina Hall. Assistant Professor of International Relations Nina Hall interviewed on Nights with Karyn Hay podcast by Radio New Zealand, 5/2

• Is China Engaged in Dollar Diplomacy? Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative Deborah Brautigam quoted in RFA, 5/1

• European Countries Struggle to Align On China. Adjunct Professor Hanns Maull quoted in The China Project, 5/1

• ‘The Devil We Know’: Does the West Want Erdogan to Win? Adjunct Professor Ömer Taşpınar wrote in Kathimerini, 5/1

• The Counteroffensive. Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute Anne Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic, 5/1

• Malaysia’s Businesses Unlikely to Stop Using US Dollar in Trade Deals: Analysts. Director of SAIS Europe and Eni Professor of International Economics Michael G. Plummer quoted in The Straits Times, 5/1

• The Foreign Policy Implications of Turkey's National Elections. Lisel Hintz interviewed on Global Dispatches podcast, 4/30

• Modi: The Phenomenon. Professor of South Asia Studies Walter Andersen wrote in The Sunday Guardian, 4/29

• Biden Sparks a $2 Trillion Arms Race Over Chips, Green Subsidies. Director and Senior Faculty Lead, Korea Studies Miyeon Oh quoted in Bloomberg, 4/27

• The Elections in Turkey and Poland: How Domestic Corruption Undermines Democracy. Lisel Hintz interviewed by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 4/27

• Hasta Mañana. Lisel Hintz quoted in Turkey Recap, 4/27

• The Global South Owes America Some Thanks. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 4/27

• Op/ed: The Balkans Are Coming Apart. Senior Fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and Professorial Lecturer in the Conflict Management Program Daniel Serwer wrote in Tirana Times, 4/26

• Erdogan is Bound to Lose Even If He Wins. Ömer Taşpınar wrote in The Asia Time, 4/24

• ‘Untenable’: Coalition Calls For Ban on Government Ads on TikTok. Professorial Lecturer Seth Kaplan quoted in Financial Review, 4/24

• The Probable War Between China and the US? (Spanish).  HNC Co-Director and Resident Professor of Political Science Adam K. Webb interviewed for FM Colombia Podcast with Luís Carlos Vélez, 4/24

• Re-Globalization, Seriously? Adjunct Professor of International Law Arthur Appleton wrote in the Globalist, 4/20

• Amid a Leak, the Pentagon is Reviewing the Way Classified Data is Distributed. Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and Professor of Strategic Studies Thomas Rid interviewed by NPR News, 4/19

• Hundreds of Houthi prisoners, 16 Saudis freed on day two of swap. James Anderson Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies Sanam Vakil quoted in Al Jazeera, 4/15

• Will Reconciliation Across the Middle East Bring Lasting Change? Sanam Vakil wrote in Chatham House, 4/14

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• Surprise Resort Trips and Empty Hotel Rooms Reveal How Russia's Plan for an Easy Victory in Ukraine Fell Apart. SAIS MA student ’23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Business Insider, 4/30

• US-China Relations: Be Thankful War Between the Superpowers is Limited to Board Games – For Now. Senior Fellow James Borton wrote in South China Morning Post, 4/29

• Preventing Money Laundering In The Age Of Big Data. SAIS MA student ’23 Wilson Trawick wrote in Inkstick, 4/27

• Global Economic Experts Warn Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act is Unfeasible. Senior Fellow Anne Krueger quoted in The Hankyoreh, 4/27

• Russia Wanted a Quick Victory in Ukraine, and it Sent its Spies after Ukrainian nuclear power plant workers to make it happen. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Business Insider, 4/27

• Kazakh Energy for German Cash: A New Power Partnership? SAIS MA student ’23 Jakob Barlow wrote in CEPA, 4/26Russia's Military has been Preparing for a Drone-filled Battlefield, and Even its Cooks are being Trained to Shoot Them Down. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Business Insider, 4/26

• U.S. Special Forces Just Evacuated The American Embassy In Sudan. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in 1945, 4/25

• A Global Americans Explainer: Colombia Venezuela Relations Under Gustavo Petro. SAIS MA student '24 Robert Carlson wrote in Global Americans, 4/25

• Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman: Trump ‘Aspires to be a Dictator’. Senior Fellow Alexander Vindman interviewed by MSNBC, 4/24

• Reshaping the International Order through Human Rights and “Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration” Implementation in Multilateral Organizations. SAIS MA student '23 Shu Fukuya wrote in Think7, April