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Trump ASEAN
Asia-Pacific

The Supreme Court did Trump a favor in Southeast Asia

Striking down IEEPA tariffs gives Washington a chance to rebuild trust, if the president doesn’t try for new workarounds

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Asia-Pacific

Is China really testing nuclear weapons?

Some speculate that the Trump administration is making the accusations as the basis for the US to resume its own experiments

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Latin America

Chile, meet Donroe: Rubio yanks visas over proposed China deal

Washington rips Santiago for even considering a Pacific fiber optic link to Hong Kong, even though the US has 30 such cables running to Asia

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Asia-Pacific

US working to expand control over Compact states in the Pacific

While Greenland has dominated national conversations, Washington is now eyeing dominance over Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia

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Asia-Pacific

Middle Powers are setting the table so they won't be 'on the menu'

Often crossing continents, 'workarounding' is a strategy allowing states to cooperate on trade and policy outside rigid U.S.-China alignments.

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Asia-Pacific

Trump vs. his China hawks

The president ushered in a bipartisan push for confrontation with Beijing in his first term. Is he now trying to usher it out?