• Many Election Committee members are either appointed or granted seats based on other offices they hold, and changes to how the remainder are chosen has further reduced the voting pool
• Told of the reduction in voters on Monday, lawmakers questioned why polling places in this September’s elections for the body needed to remain open so long

In this issue of Global Impact, we take a look at some of the smoke signals from the recent meetings between the United States and China to get a better sense of the state of business between the two nations.