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What does Europe expect of President-elect Biden? Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Norbert Röttgen and Dan Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson Center 

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US – The fraught politics facing Biden’s foreign policy, Thomas Wright, The Atlantic  
US/Immigration – At the starting gate: The incoming Biden administration’s immigration plans, Migration Policy Institute   
US/China/Russia – “Great Power Competition” as an Anachronism, Richard Hanania, Defense Priorities  
US/Europe/Russia – How the West should deal with Russia, Daniel Fried and Alexander Vershbow, Atlantic Council  
US/Russia/Arms control – The looming US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, Steven Pifer, Brookings   
US/EU/Global – The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the US and European commitment to the multilateral economic order, Claudia Schmucker, Istituto Affari Internazionali  
US/Poland – With a Biden Administration, Poland Expects Continuity in Security and a Return of Democracy, Michal Baranowski and Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska, GMF 
US/Germany – How Berlin Can Help Biden – And Itself, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, GMF 
US/Germany – President Biden: Think bigger and broader with Berlin, Stephen F. Szabo and Jason Bruder, War on the Rocks 
EU – Brussels prepares for a protracted fight with Poland and Hungary, Markus Becker, Christiane Hoffmann, Martin Knobbe, Walter Mayr, Jan Puhl, Christian Reiermann, and Britta Sandberg, Der Spiegel   
EU/Defense – Results of First Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, European Defence Agency 
EU/Asia/Trade – The impact of the new Asian trade mega-deal on the European Union, Uri Dadush, Bruegel  
EU/New Zealand/Trade/Environment – EU-New Zealand chart course toward green trade deals, Jakob Hanke Vela, Politico 
UK/Canada/Trade – U.K., Canada Reach Trade Deal in a Brexit Boost for Johnson, Joe Mayes, Kait Bolongaro, Tim Ross and Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg 
Biotechnology – The blessing and curse of biotechnology: A primer on biosafety and biosecurity, Ronit Langer and Shruti Sharma, Carnegie Endowment   
Belarus – Interview with Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Der Spiegel 
China/Conflict – China has made drone warfare global, Michael Horowitz, Joshua A. Schwartz, and Matthew Fuhrmann, Foreign Affairs