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Christian Caryl, Senior Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies, and, Contributing Editor for both Foreign Policy and Newsweek
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Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is also a Contributing Editor of Newsweek and Foreign Policy, where he writes a regular column ("Reality Check"). From 2004 to March 2009 he served as the head of the Northeast Asia Bureau of Newsweek, based in Tokyo. Before that, from 2000 to 2004, Caryl served as Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief. After 9/11 he carried out numerous assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of Newsweek's reporting on the war on terror.
Earlier Caryl served as Moscow bureau chief for U.S News & World Report starting in 1997. Before moving to Moscow Caryl spent 13 years as a freelance journalist in Germany, where he contributed to publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Spectator and Der Spiegel. He was a 1999 finalist in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting. In his journalistic career he has reported from 37 countries. A 1984 graduate of Yale College, he speaks Russian and German. He is a native of Midland, Texas.
November 2, 2009 07:41 AM
Updated at 10:06 a.m. on Nov. 2. The Chimerica idea is sexy. China’s growth is dramatic; America’s current account deficits are scary. So it’s very exciting to focus on the relationship between the two. But this paradigm leaves out just a bit too much to be really useful. America’s biggest trade partner is not China but the European Union. Japan holds almost as much Treasury debt as China. And there are quite a few other countries that are also racking up growth rates just as impressive as China’s, even if they aren’t quite in the same league as American trade…
Read moreSeptember 28, 2009 08:48 AM
Personally, I doubt very much that President Obama will undertake anything drastic before the midterm elections. Given the extent to which he’s decided to ease up on the Israelis already, I don’t think we should be expecting any sort of drastic action on the Middle East from the White House for some months to come. For that reason, I believe we'll see a steady erosion of his image among the Islamic countries (who aren’t really that impressed to begin with) - and, even more importantly, the Israelis will feel even less like they have to take Washington’s feelings into account.…
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