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n Progress and Barriers to the Youth, Peace, and Security Agenda' U.S. Institute of Peace online event, marking five years since the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed the resolution. Speakers include U.N. Population Fund Secretariat on Youth, Peace and Security Head Cecile Mazzacurati and USIP A

visa access for Chinese Communist Party officials as part of the campaign which has also seen penalties imposed on China for its actions in western Xinjiang province, Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea." Secretary of State Pompeo released a statement reading, "Beijing's unrelenting assault against Ho

ed that O'Brien had tested positive, says, "Since his diagnosis, O'Brien has been isolating at home while still running the National EFTA00136187 Security Council, doing most of his work by phone." Bloomberg adds, "NSC staff weren't informed that O'Brien had tested positive," and "some found out through press

gions, raising fears of a serious resurgence." According to Bloomberg, "Of the 61 infections reported Monday, 57 were local cases with 41 of them in Xinjiang, the politically fraught western province where China's treatment of the local Muslim Uighur population has come under global criticism." Reuters <

ations "appear to have decided that, to better advance their own interests, they need to knock Washington down a peg or two." Especially on the UN Security Council, the two authoritarian powers will continue taking positions that reflect their interest in curtailing American influence and thwarting what they e

ublic in 1949. Beginning in the 1850s, Russians seized advantage of Chinese disarray to pressure the Qing's northern frontier, from restive Muslim Xinjiang in the west to the Amur River in the east. Two "unequal treaties" in 1858 and 1860 gave Russia more land than it had conceded to the Manchus two hu

The administration's priority is to hold together an international consensus against Russia, including even China, its longtime supporter on the UN Security Council. While Obama's long-term approach takes shape, though, a quiet debate has roiled his administration over how far to go in the short term. EFTA0068

uslim-populated former Soviet republics of Central Asia. China similarly worries that upheaval in Afghanistan could exacerbate Islamic extremism in Xinjiang; India thinks the same could happen in Kashmir. And Shiite Iran almost went to war with the Taliban, an extremist Sunni movement, in 1997; its lead