By Óscar Arcos, Executive Director

As trade, technology, and economic security increasingly reshape North American supply chains, where do you see the most overlooked opportunities for Mexico and companies operating there? Beyond nearshoring, what should businesses be doing now to position themselves for this new phase of regional integration?

By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade 

As trade, technology, and economic security increasingly reshape North American supply chains, where do you see the most overlooked opportunities for Mexico and companies operating there? Beyond nearshoring, what should businesses be doing now to position themselves for this new phase of regional integration?

By Abel Hibert, Senior Fellow 

As trade, technology, and economic security increasingly reshape North American supply chains, where do you see the most overlooked opportunities for Mexico and companies operating there? Beyond nearshoring, what should businesses be doing now to position themselves for this new phase of regional integration?

By Jake E. Jennings, Basilinna Chair of Technology and Trade, Abel Hibert, Basilinna Senior Fellow, Oscar Arcos, Basilinna Executive Director

As trade, technology, and economic security increasingly reshape North American supply chains, where do you see the most overlooked opportunities for Mexico and companies operating there? Beyond nearshoring, what should businesses be doing now to position themselves for this new phase of regional integration? 

Hosted by Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade

As Japan confronts an aging workforce and shrinking labor pool, the country is becoming a real-world test case for how industrial economies can use AI to sustain productivity and competitiveness.

By the Basilinna Team

Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded a two-day state visit to Egypt this week, his first visit to the country in a decade. Marking 70 years of diplomatic relations between Egypt and China.

By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO

When President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo this week for his first state visit to Egypt in a decade, trade, investment and geopolitics were inevitably high on the agenda. But Xi also made something else unusually prominent: culture.

By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO

At a time of geopolitical competition and shifting alliances, China and the Arab world are finding common ground around a problem they share: the desert.

By the Basilinna Team

President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Egypt, his first in a decade, highlights China’s deepening economic and political engagement across MENA. But this does not mean the region is shifting from the United States to China. The U.S. remains the region’s primary defense and advanced technology partner, while China is increasingly central to trade, infrastructure, manufacturing and investment.

By Irina Bokova, Executive Director

As the United States approaches America 250, what opportunities do you see for culture to deepen U.S. engagement with the world? Where can culture have the greatest impact in strengthening international relationships and shaping global engagement in the decade ahead?

Hosted by Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade

How does one standard connect billions of phones in every country on Earth — and who decides what comes next? John Giusti steps into the Tholos Circle to break it down.  

By Tess Davis Basilinna, Executive Director

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?

By Yousra Abdelhameed, Basilinna Chief of Staff and Managing Director

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?

By Dr. Stephen Browne, Basillina Expert

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?

By Irina Bokova, Executive Director

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?

By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?

By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO, Irina Bokova, Executive Director, Dr. Stephen Browne, Basillina Expert, Yousra Abdelhameed, Basilinna Managing Directorand Chief of Staff, Tess Davis, Basilinna Executive Director

What opportunities can culture create for deeper U.S. engagement with the world, and where can it have the greatest impact in the decade ahead?-part series, we examine where China's consumer economy stands today, how demand is shifting, and where more targeted progress could help unlock a new phase of growth.

By Chynna Hawes, Senior Vice President

Earlier this month, the U.S. joined Japan in a rare effort to stabilize the yen after it weakened toward a 40-year low. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what it means for business.

By the Basilinna team

The interim U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding signed in June remains suspended as a formal ceasefire but still provides the principal diplomatic framework for negotiations. Since late July, however, the conflict has entered another volatile phase in which military escalation and diplomacy have proceeded simultaneously.

By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO

Recent geopolitical shocks have forced a fundamental reassessment of risk. War, supply chain disruptions, and rising fragmentation have shown that resilience can no longer be assumed, but it must be built. While attention has focused on geopolitical risk, climate risk, equally consequential, is now converging with it.

By the Basilinna team

The conflict in Yemen has entered its twelfth year and remains one of the Middle East’s most strategically significant and politically complex crises.

By the Basilinna team

The United States and Iran signed an interim memorandum of understanding establishing a ceasefire, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and creating a 60-day framework for negotiating a broader agreement.

By Ruihan Huang, Director

In the wake of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, Basilinna's leading China experts respond to the question: which new stabilizing forces—or points of friction—are most likely to shape the U.S.-China relationship in the months ahead? 

By Kendra Schaefer, Senior Fellow

In the wake of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, Basilinna's leading China experts respond to the question: which new stabilizing forces—or points of friction—are most likely to shape the U.S.-China relationship in the months ahead?