Abe Shinzō: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

with Chris Patten, Stephen S. Roach, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Antara Haldar, and more The Sunday Newsletter [View this message in a web browser]( [PS on Sunday]( OCTOBER 2, 2022 This week at [Project Syndicate]( Mohamed A. El-Erian says that the US Federal Reserve’s latest moves are consistent with a central bank that is desperately scrambling to catch up with realities on the ground; Abe Shinzō, in the last text he wrote before his assassination, considers how to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific; Dina Khapaeva assesses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest nuclear blackmail; and more. Economics & Finance [The Cost of the Fed’s Challenged Credibility]( [Mohamed A. El-Erian]( interprets the latest market tumult as the price of delaying monetary-policy tightening for too long. Politics & World Affairs [Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific]( [Abe Shinzō]( set out his vision for the region less than one month prior to his assassination in July. Sponsored by Wren [How to Offset Your Carbon Footprint]( From bleak IPCC reports to disappointing COPs, news relating to the climate crisis can often leave us feeling powerless. But individual action can make a difference. That is where [Wren]( comes in. Simply answer a few questions about your lifestyle, and Wren will [calculate your carbon footprint]( and help you find ways to reduce it. Whatever is left, you can offset by funding climate solutions, from carbon removal to tree-planting. Monthly updates on the projects you support will show you exactly how your money is being spent. Get started using this [link]( and Wren will plant ten extra trees in your name. Politics & World Affairs [Putin’s New Nuclear Blackmail]( [Dina Khapaeva]( urges Western leaders not to give in to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats. Economics & Finance [The Faith-Based Reaganomics of Liz Truss]( [Chris Patten]( argues that the UK government's new fiscal plan is reckless and may lead to an economic crisis. [PS Insider Interview: The Trade Agenda Today]( [The Trade Agenda Today]( [Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]( is interviewed by [Anne O. Krueger]( about the challenges facing her organization. Economics & Finance [Pound Foolishness]( [Jim O'Neill]( blames the new UK government's fiscal plan for the British currency's collapse to historic lows. Economics & Finance [Britain Is Not an Emerging Market – Yet]( [Kenneth Rogoff]( considers the implications of the new government’s poorly received economic-policy package. [PS Big Picture: King Dollar]( [King Dollar]( [Jeffrey Frankel]( [Dambisa Moyo]( [Gautam Nair]( and more weigh in on the causes and likely consequences of the greenback’s surge. Politics & World Affairs [Russia, Iran, and the Perils of Post-Autocracy]( [Robert D. Kaplan]( warns that the collapse of a despotic regime more often leads to a political void than to a healthy democracy. Culture & Society [Amazon’s Satanic Mills]( [Antara Haldar]( sees recent unionization efforts as a welcome response to an unethical and inhumane business model. [PS Quarterly: Will We Prosper, or Will We Disappear?]( [Will We Prosper, or Will We Disappear?]( [Mohamed Nasheed]( explains what the international community must do to support climate-vulnerable developing countries. Economics & Finance [Core Dangers for the Fed and China]( [Stephen S. Roach]( thinks the US central bank and Chinese governance share a conceptual weakness leading to major policy blunders. Sustainability Now [No Security Without Climate Security]( [Anne-Marie Slaughter]( explains why US policymakers need to focus more closely on global warming as an existential threat. [PS Quarterly: We Didn't Start the Fire]( [We Didn't Start the Fire]( [Madeleine Diouf Sarr]( explains what the high emitters owe to least-developed countries on the front lines of the climate crisis. Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [project-syndicate.org](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from this list](