Foreign Exchanges

Foreign Exchanges

Share this post

Foreign Exchanges
Foreign Exchanges
The Week in Review: December 4-10, 2021
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
FX Week in Review

The Week in Review: December 4-10, 2021

The US announces its Olympic boycott, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin talk things over, and more

Shawn Gillooly
Dec 11, 2021
∙ Paid
10

Share this post

Foreign Exchanges
Foreign Exchanges
The Week in Review: December 4-10, 2021
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Share

This week, the US led a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics that failed (at least so far) to catch on. The Ethiopian government announced it has retaken key cities in its war against the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Negotiations over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed, though there is still disagreement on the starting point for this round of talks. The US military’s combat mission in Iraq officially ended. Finally, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin met to discuss fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and the state of US-Russian relations.

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Foreign Exchanges to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
A guest post by
Shawn Gillooly
Master's Student in International Relations, King's College London
© 2025 Derek Davison
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More