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Elizabeth Wishnick

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Professor, Department of Political Science and Law; Senior Research Scholar
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Montclair State University; Columbia University
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Montclair State University (Bio)
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China, Central Asia, Energy, Environment, Migration, Public Health
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China and Russia: Vaccine Competitors or Partners?

  • February 22, 2021
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(China’s Resource Risks) The most valuable resource to the average person today is a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For China, which has rolled out two vaccines so far (Sinopharm and Sinovac),…
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Reading the Soy Leaves: What Soybean Imports Say about China’s 2020 Election Preferences

  • October 26, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(China Resource Risks) Which candidate do Chinese leaders hope will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump or Joe Biden? According to the U.S. Directorate for National Intelligence, the Chinese…
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Mining for Trouble: The Resources at Stake in the China-India Border Dispute

  • October 5, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(China’s Resource Risks) What is at stake in the recent Sino-Indian border clashes? Competing efforts to build roads, exploit mineral deposits, and secure water resources are an important backstory to the…
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Pipeline “Khanfluence”: Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China

  • September 18, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(China’s Resource Risks) The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as of December 2019, after nearly thirty years of discussion. Despite this dilatory timeline, plans for…
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China in a Belarus Pickle

  • September 8, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(China’s Resource Risks) The massive ongoing protests starting in August 2020 in capital city Minsk and throughout the country, galvanized by President Alexander Lukashenko’s fraudulent reelection, have Chinese leaders in…
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The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19

  • August 18, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(Weatherhead East Asian Institute) Taiwan and Estonia are known as digital democracies. As both face threats from neighbors, their degree of digitization typically has been seen as a vulnerability. The…
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Masked Diplomacy: Xi and Putin Seek Advantage and Cover from the Pandemic

  • April 1, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In the United States, President Donald Trump claims to be a wartime president, while denying any responsibility as the country proved unprepared to confront its most serious…
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Sino-Russian Consolidation at a Time of Geopolitical Rivalry

  • March 18, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(CLM) There has a been a notable consolidation of the Sino-Russian partnership during the past two years. Although this has coincided with the U.S.-China trade war and a period of increased…
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Putin and Xi: Ice Cream Buddies and Tandem Strongmen

  • October 25, 2019
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As Moscow and Beijing enter into the 70th year of their relationship since the Communist Revolution in China, what does the apparent bromance between Presidents Xi…
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The Sino-Russian partnership in the Arctic

  • March 13, 2018
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(CPI) In December 2017, the 27 billion dollar Yamal LNG project became operational, the first joint Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) project to reach fruition and a major Chinese…
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