5 天之前 · It was not until Trump’s return became a real prospect that Beijing started focusing on outreach to these U.S. partners. Even as China gradually dropped its hostile “wolf warrior” diplomacy after the country’s post-COVID reopening in 2023, Chinese relations with India and Japan in particular remained frosty: border tensions with India continued, and Beijing mounted …

4 天之前 · But turning over the West Bank to sovereign Palestinian rule is a losing proposition in the eyes of most Israelis, who believe that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 created the conditions that allowed Hamas to grow stronger and eventually carry out its massive attack on October 7, 2023. When it comes to the Palestinian question, it will be extremely difficult to …

4 天之前 · Although unions representing federal workers have filed legal challenges to Musk’s decision-making authority and access to these systems, and 13 state attorneys general have announced their intention to sue over these issues, court cases will take time to resolve; meanwhile, the damage to security will already be done.

4 天之前 · Last week, the Trump administration ignited a firestorm when it issued a stop-work order for most U.S. foreign aid programs and announced that it would permanently close all 80 field missions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government’s primary aid agency, which I led from 2001 to 2006.

6 天之前 · Earlier this week, it appeared as if the Trump administration was going to follow through on its threat to impose a sweeping 25 percent tariff across the board on Canadian exports to the United States. Canada owes the United States “a …

5 天之前 · GEOFFREY GERTZ is a Senior Fellow with the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. During the Biden administration, he served at the National Security Council and in the State Department. EMILY KILCREASE is a Senior Fellow at and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New …

6 天之前 · But depopulation poses severe limits on Russia’s potential economic gains from these conquests. In 2014, Ukrainians began fleeing Crimea, and especially the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” that Russia established in eastern Ukraine, to escape the lawlessness and fighting and because they preferred Ukrainian to Russian rule.

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