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Donald Trump
Middle East

For peace with Iran to work a reckoning with Israel is in order

Trump must get back to basics, and his promises to the American people. In order to do that he must put this relationship in its proper place.

China electric cars
Asia-Pacific

On energy, China can sit this crisis out. Here's why.

'Green energy' here isn't a slogan or abstract aspiration. It's economic and geopolitical survival.

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran
Global Crises

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at White House Trump
Asia-Pacific

If surviving Trump meeting was goal, Takaichi leaves DC a winner

The Japanese prime minister didn't get what she wanted regarding Chinese security assurances, but nor was she talked into joining Iran war

Tom Cotton Mike Johnson Pete Hegseth
Global Crises

‘Axis of cope’: What happens when they learn all the wrong lessons?

Now that things haven't gone quite as planned, watch Washington hawks dial it up more, this time against China

nuclear weapons
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