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Can a spiny echidna help Australia avoid cold war with China?
Asia-Pacific

Can a spiny echidna help Australia avoid cold war with China?

A new book by Sam Roggeveen offers a different path for Canberra as it deals with Beijing’s rise.

Rahm Emmanuel in Japan, goes rogue on China
Asia-Pacific

Rahm Emmanuel in Japan, goes rogue on China

As one White House official put it, his trolling is “not in keeping with the message coming out of this building.”

Hawks want Biden to take the fight with Russia global
Washington Politics

Hawks want Biden to take the fight with Russia global

Columnist Walter Russell Mead thinks the West can wear down Russia by attacking it everywhere.

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North America

10 years after Obama's embarrassing 'red line' retreat

For the first time in decades, the interventionists lost. But that just meant no president asked for permission again.

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Africa

ECOWAS sets ‘D-day’ for intervention in Niger

If the US doesn’t want to evacuate its forces, or see a regional war, it needs to do whatever it can to call off the attack.