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February 5, 2010 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website. In this Issue: Confronting the Debt Threat Deficits in a Growing Defense Budget Security in Northeast Asia Confronting the Debt Threat Some of Obama's budget proposals are sound policy, but congressional gridlock and faster economic reforms in China and Europe could jeopardize U.S. competitiveness, says Economist.com editor Ryan Avent. Read more Op-ed: "How to Destroy American Jobs" by Matthew Slaughter (Wall Street Journal) Geo-Graphics: Chart on President Obama's "Export Ambitions" CFR Meeting Trancript, Video, Audio: "Global Economic Trends - A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz" Op-ed: "Fiscal Death Spiral" by Edward Alden (Daily Beast) CFR Meeting Transcript, Video, Audio: "Stimulus in a Volatile Financial World" with World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin Op-ed: "How to Make a Weak Economy Worse" by Amity Shlaes (Wall Street Journal) CFR experts on Economics, Financial Crises Deficits in a Growing Defense Budget The Obama administration's proposed defense budget fails to align spending with calls to rebuild the military to handle irregular warfare, says expert Todd Harrison. Read more CFR Meeting Transcript, Audio, Video: "Rebalancing and Reforming Defense - Quadrennial Defense Review 2010" with Undersecretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy Op-ed: "Drones - War from Afar" by Micah Zenko (ISN) Foreign Affairs: "The Best Defense - Preventive Force and International Security" by Abraham Sofaer Council Special Report: Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action by Paul Stares and Micah Zenko Op-ed: "New Doubts about Afghanistan" by Leslie Gelb (Daily Beast) CFR experts on Defense Policy and Budget Security in Northeast Asia CFR Senior Fellow Sheila Smith says the Six Party Talks have built cooperation among Northeast Asian countries, which need to work together on North Korea, but also on tension between the U.S. and China over planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Read more Project: "Northeast Asia Security Architecture" directed by Sheila Smith Interactive: Crisis Guide - The Korean Peninsula Article: "Prospects for a Northeast Asia Security Framework" by Scott Synder (Korea Economic Institute) Council Special Report: The United States in the New Asia by Evan Feigenbaum and Robert Manning Op-ed: "The North Asia Security Split" by Caroline Leddy (Wall Street Journal) Backgrounder: Six Party Taks CFR experts on Northeast Asia

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