Xi sees Trump as weak and confused, having made a grave strategic error in framing a $14 billion US arms sale to Taiwan as a “very good negotiating chip”.
The president’s transactional approach may drive down oil prices, but without a strategy for China or regime change in Tehran, it just delays the inevitable reckoning.
Just as the USSR sought to infiltrate Hollywood filmmaking, China is using social media today to harm American political cohesion.
US protection for Cuban-Americans wanting to return to their parents’ and grandparents’ homeland to revive its faded appeal can open it in ways not possible elsewhere.
In the growing regime disarray and schism over the succession of the supreme leader, the resistance will find its greatest potential to topple the IRGC leadership.
Who knows what the US president will do. We could ask him, but he probably doesn’t know either.
As the prominent barrister compares US action in Venezuela to Putin’s invasions, Trump threatens to undercut the legitimacy of his own actions.
There should be no let up in considering the risks of outright Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The threat is real, and the vagaries of Trump’s public utterances should not convince anyone to the contrary.
Optimists cite what they see as key differences between the failed January ceasefire and today. While accurate, neither necessarily foreshadows rapid progress.
The entire event is intended to rewrite history and advance and normalise both the Chinese Communist Party’s official history and to presage the future.
Even the master of strategic ambiguity in US-Chinese relations conceded the status quo could not last indefinitely.
Tehran does not feel pressured enough to restrain its expendable surrogates, proving that the West has not established conditions for deterrence.
A full withdrawal from Afghanistan is a costly blunder and failure of leadership that will increase the terrorism threat to the US and its allies.
The Republican Party still has elections to win. It cannot let Trump build his own image by refusing to concede, at the expense of their own credibility, writes John Bolton.
