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Patrick Fine

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

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China's first domestically-built polar research vessel and icebreaker "Xuelong 2" prepares to take water at Jiangnan Shipyard in Chongming's Changxing Island in Shanghai, China, 10 September 2018.China's first wholly domestically conceived and built icebreaker Xuelong 2 took to the sea on Monday (10 September 2018) at Jiangnan Shipyard in Chongming's Changxing Island. Construction of the vessel began in December 20, 2016. Xuelong 2 will be put into service in the first half of 2019. It will team up with another icebreaker Xuelong on polar expeditions next year. The vessel is 122.5 meters in length and 22.3 meters wide, with a draught of 7.85 meters and displacement of 13,990 tons. It can reach 15 knots and it has a range of 20,000 nautical miles. Xuelong 2 can break 1.5-meter ice with a thick covering of snow at speeds of 2 to 3 knots. Its combines the requirements of a new-generation research vessel with environmental protection having an azimuthing electric propulsion system. Researchers can make observations of environmental elements like the ocean water, sea ice and polar air from the vessel and take samples from the marine environment in connection with climate change.No Use China. No Use France.

Order from Chaos

The Polar Silk Road will be cleared with Chinese icebreakers

Jeremy Greenwood

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Robert Greenstein

Visiting Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hamilton Project

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TechStream

The conspiracy and disinformation challenge on e-commerce platforms

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Johannes F. Linn

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Cameron F. Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

Kristin F. Butcher

Director - Center on Children and Families

Cabot Family Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Anthony F. Pipa

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

The parent of 8-year-old student Reem Al-Jaony helps her son with his school work at their home, after coronavirus lockdown forced schools to go online amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Amman, Jordan March 23, 2020. Picture taken March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Education Plus Development

Adapting approaches to deliver quality education in response to COVID-19

Patrick Hannahan

Thursday, April 23, 2020

David F. Damore

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

@dfdamore

Flower tributes are pictured outside Al-Noor mosque after it was reopened in Christchurch, New Zealand March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Order from Chaos

Reflections on the Christchurch commission report

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- In the photos, it shows the exterior of Olympia London, where the London Book Fair 2020 is scheduled, in London, United Kingdom on March 4, 2020. The London Book Fair, one of the most important events in the literary calendar, it was suspended on Wednesday (4) because of the concern of the new outbreak of coronavirus.

Order from Chaos

Is Trump right that Britain is handling the coronavirus well?

Friday, March 13, 2020

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer during a campaign stop in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

FixGov

Biden has women to thank for his primary victories

Michael D. Hais and Morley Winograd

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

A map of Yemen overlayed on a portrait of President John F. Kennedy.

Essay

John F. Kennedy’s Yemen crisis

Monday, December 13, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, France's President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after posing for the G-7 family photo with guests at the G-7 summit, in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain June 11, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

Around the halls: Impressions and conclusions from President Biden’s first international trip

Madiha Afzal, Giovanna De Maio, James Goldgeier, Patrick W. Quirk, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, and Caitlin Talmadge

Friday, June 18, 2021