God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler

By Azra Isakovic

Friday April 2, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Featured

Biosecurity – WHO’s “exciting adventure” to find the origins of COVID-19 runs into trouble, Thomas Gaulkin, Matthew Field | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The COVID-19 origin story is still being written, but the first draft is this “likely", “unlikely", or “possibly” inconclusive report from WHO’s controversial visit to China.@BulletinAtomic https://t.co/R8bByyhJ6I

— Thomas Gaulkin (@ThomasGaulkin) March 31, 2021

Books

The Biography – PHILIP ROTH, Blake Bailey, by Cynthia Ozick | The New York Times
À propos de – “Liberalism, Diversity and Domination, Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference”, Inder S. Marwah | Cambridge University Press

Kant, Mill et les autres: À propos de : Inder S. Marwah, Liberalism, Diversity and Domination, Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference, Cambridge University Press. Pour certains auteurs postcoloniaux, la pensée libérale du XIXe siècle est… https://t.co/Bn8ps2t6uM

— La Vie des idées (@laviedesidees) March 11, 2021

Must-Reads

EU/China – Watching China in Europe – April 2021, Noah Barkin | German Marshall Fund
China – Is It Too Late to Challenge China’s Belt and Road?  Howard French | WP Review
Russia – An Opportunity for Russia’s Northern Sea Route?  Sergey Sukhankin | Jamestown
China – The New China Shock  Mark Leonard | Project Syndicate
Digital/Finance – Who Needs a Digital Dollar?  Barry Eichengreen | Japan Times
US/Russia/Arctics – U.S.-Russian Arctic Relations: A Change in Climate? Heather A. Conley and Colin Wall | CSIS
Suez – The Next Suez Threat? a Big Hack  Victoria Coates & Robert Greenway | Bloomberg
Russia – Russia’s Extraterritorial Military Deployments  Jeff Hawn | Newlines
Russia – Cyber Deterrence Matters  Erica Borghard | Russia Matters
Ukraine – Russian Troop Movements on Ukraine Border Test Biden Administration, Thomas Grove and Alan Cullison | Wall Street Journal
Europe/Populism – Orban plots new populist alliance for European parliament, Valerie Hopkins, James Shotter, Davide Ghiglione | FT

Orban and Salvini’s reasons for wanting to form a new parliamentary group were clear. “Orban is alone out in the cold and needs a new political home. Salvini would like to be seen as a mover and shaker at European level,” GMF's @DanielHegedus82 tells @FT: https://t.co/gvlOf0gSza

— German Marshall Fund (@gmfus) April 1, 2021

Research & Analysis

EU/Digital/Trade – EU Digital Policy and International Trade, Rachel F. Fefer | Congressional Research Service
Trade –2021 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers | United States Trade Representative
EU/Digital – Europe’s Quest for Digital Sovereignty: GAIA-X as a Case Study, Simona Autolitano and Agnieszka Pawlowska | IAI

#UE🇪🇺/#Numérique/ La quête de l'Europe pour la souveraineté numérique: GAIA-X comme étude de cas, par @simoautolitano et @Aga_Pawlowska | @IAIonline https://t.co/xOdO0pKZB3
[PDF] https://t.co/kQte1DtZqJ pic.twitter.com/mYFWAghUTW

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 2, 2021

Podcasts

Europe – Scandinavie : des socio-démocrates nouvelle génération Florian Delorme | France Culture

[À PODCASTER] 🌍
écoutez, dès maintenant, notre émission du jour !

Europe : quand la gauche se cherche un avenir

4/4 – #Scandinavie : des socio-démocrates nouvelle générationhttps://t.co/U9VwD8SLz5

— Cultures Monde (@CulturesMonde_) April 1, 2021