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Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration analyst at the Cato Institute think tank, said the programme "was more inconsistent than usual by OIG accounts and compared to the more intensive refugee review process".

“The U.S. has kept approving sizable arms packages for Taipei even as economic talks continue,” said Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.

With the new Canada-Alberta pact, “the message from Ottawa is no longer that certain things are off the table,” said Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank in Ottawa.

The Resolution Foundation think tank has produced some representative households to demonstrate these different effects:

“Everyone is trying to figure it out,” said Emily Ferris, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.