Pushing the Global South into China’s embrace
Beijing is vying for the leadership role among these countries and making inroads. Is Washington nimble enough to make adjustments?
Beijing is vying for the leadership role among these countries and making inroads. Is Washington nimble enough to make adjustments?
Attempts to isolate Russia over Ukraine with sanctions that are ultimately hurting the global economy aren’t having the desired impact.
Both US and Iran are to blame for the failure to renew the nuclear deal, but Tel Aviv is throwing in any monkey wrench it can to sabotage it.
Washington continues to treat el-Sisi with kid gloves, supplying the despotic regime with aid, hurting its own credibility in the process.
Washington provides weapons and protection to these monarchies, but honestly, what is it getting in return?
‘No boots on the ground’ seems like an empty assurance considering this new report from the New York Times.
Will the administration take additional steps to help Afghanistan or sit on the sidelines because it won’t recognize the government?
These weapons have little to no military value and their use only risks killing or harming civilians, even decades after a war has ended.
By restricting the meeting to democracies, the president omitted countries key to addressing the agenda’s top issues.
The Mexican president is the first to follow through on a boycott after the White House confirmed its snub of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
From the ‘with us or against us’ frame to the disproportionate fallout of the commodities crisis, these countries are non-aligned for a reason.
If reports of a new agreement with Abu Dhabi are true it will not only entrench us in the region but heap rewards on a bad regional actor.
The Secretary’s remarks were a rehash of old statements and the usual mixed messages about US competition with Beijing.
At what point will Washington acknowledge that our “special bond” is helping forestall peace and hurting US interests in the region?
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
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