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In the swirling debate around global health, "the health and rights of women, children, and adolescents are not center stage," write Helen Clark and Rajat Khosla for Think Global Health. The current system needs an overhaul, they argue. "Reform will fall short, however, if it merely assumes the prioritization of women's, children's, and adolescents' health without explicitly safeguarding it." "A reformed architecture that is more streamlined but less capable of protecting a woman in childbirth, a girl seeking contraception, or a newborn in need of timely care is not progress—it is regressive, and it is deadly," Clark and Khosla write. "The question before policymakers is not whether women's, children's, and adolescents' health belongs within the new architecture. It is whether the architecture will be designed around it." https://bit.ly/4wwyrSf

Argentina's proposed departure from the World Health Organization raises complex legal questions about treaty withdrawal and global health governance, argues Sara Al Dallal for Think Global Health. https://bit.ly/3RrBMC6

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Is the dollar still indispensable to world trade and finance? The Iran War is revealing its vulnerabilities, CFR expert Benn Steil and Yuma Schuster argue. They find evidence that Chinese RMB payments rise and fall with the perceived sanctions risk of dollar payments. Chinese banks operating outside the dollar system—such as the majority owner of the U.S.-sanctioned Bank of Kunlun—have emerged as beneficiaries. "Dollar sanctions function like powerful antibiotics–highly effective when used selectively, but less so when repeated use encourages development of resistant alternatives," Steil and Schuster write. https://on.cfr.org/3PMO0ot

“The administration has issued licenses for 750,000 H200 chips, but those licenses are still stalled on the Chinese side. . . . It would triple China’s AI computing power capacity, if those were to go through,” says CFR expert Chris McGuire, discussing the stalled sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips to Chinese companies during a media briefing on the Trump-Xi summit.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping just wrapped up their long-awaited summit. "Expectations were low—and met," CFR President Mike Froman writes. "If the summit was short on major concrete deliverables—at least as far as we know at this point—it was long on protocol, pomp, and circumstance." "Both leaders left able to claim a measure of victory, having locked in what amounts to a delicate détente," Froman writes. "For Trump, that meant a fresh round of commercial deliverables—China’s commitment to purchase more planes, agriculture, and energy products. For Xi, it was an opportunity to lay down a marker on Taiwan and to offer up a new framework for the bilateral relationship." "Per the White House readout, the two leaders reached a mutual understanding that 'Iran can never have a nuclear weapon' and that the Strait of Hormuz 'must remain open,' with Xi voicing opposition to the militarization of the strait and to any effort to 'charge a toll for its use.'" Read the full analysis: https://on.cfr.org/4dL7NO9

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“All four [demands on Taiwan] would be pretty big policy moves, and all four of them we know the Chinese would like to see. Here’s the thing, the [Trump] administration is indicating they won’t do it,” argues CFR expert Rush Doshi, in reference to the talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Watch or listen to the latest episode of The President’s Inbox: https://on.cfr.org/43cv99m

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both praised their Beijing summit for improving bilateral ties, though the visit produced few specific public commitments. Read and subscribe to the Daily News Brief: https://on.cfr.org/3PsubCP