John, 

From Moscow to Beijing to Pyongyang, the Biden Administration is faced with mounting foreign policy challenges on all sides that threaten peace and stability around the globe. 

Catch up on all the top foreign policy headlines from the last month below and add your name to echo Mike’s call for sanctions against the International Olympic Committee officials complicit in Peng Shuai’s disappearance.

Bottom Line: “‘It's time to call the IOC out for their complete cowardice,” Gallagher said. “They’re just allowing self-interest to dictate the terms of a massive human rights violation here.”...The Wisconsin Republican argued that it was no longer enough to call for an Olympic boycott or to even move the Games, but said it was time to slap sanctions on IOC President Thomas Bach and any other IOC official who has played a complacent role in Peng’s disappearance.”

Bottom Line: “Despite the growing bipartisan consensus on the need for selective technological and financial decoupling from the CCP — and despite dealing with a pandemic from Wuhan that exposed our dangerous dependency on China — Wall Street cannot seem to get enough of the Chinese market.”

Bottom Line: “The Chinese government increasingly is using its economic weight to reshape global behavior and strengthen its own authoritarianism. And democratic governments have left companies to fend for themselves… Through state-fanned patriotic boycotts, website shutdowns and other retaliatory measures, the Chinese government pressures international firms and other organizations to avoid statements or actions that cross Chinese Communist Party red lines.

Bottom Line: “Ahead of the trip, Blinken spoke to his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on Tuesday and reiterated calls for Moscow to de-escalate tensions by reducing its military build-up along Ukraine’s border. During the call, the two agreed to meet in Geneva on Friday.”

Bottom Line: “North Korea on Monday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea in its fourth weapons launch this month, the U.S. and its allies South Korea and Japan said, with the apparent goal of demonstrating its military might amid paused diplomacy with the U.S. and pandemic border closures.”

Thank you for reading this month’s edition of the Foreign Policy Newsletter –– we’ll be in touch soon as we monitor developing stories from around the globe.

–– Gallagher Foreign Policy HQ