Pathetic Joe, Narrow-Minded Biden
Like the French royals of the late 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, Joe Biden, former Senator, Vice President, and presently the President of the United States…
Biden Takes ‘Death to America’ Terrorists Off Terror List, Replaces Them With Republicans
The Biden administration responded to protests against its stolen election by embedding a domestic extremism office into the National Security Council. The man in charge of making it happen, Joshua…
Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel
President Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House, setting up what could…
United States Cut China Aid In Half In 2020
President Donald Trump cut aid to China by 52 percent over the last year, the Spectator reported Friday. The United States slashed $32 million in aid to China in fiscal year 2020, from…
‘The Elements of the China Challenge’: A Reply to Critics
In mid-November, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff — I serve as the director — published “The Elements of the China Challenge.” The paper argues that the core of the…
Will The Covid-19 Pandemic Confound Or Enable China’s Strategic Ambitions?
Will China’s negligence unleashing the coronavirus and mendacity exploiting it catalyze a reckoning with the PRC, comparable in significance to the Czech Coup of 1948? And will it crystallize long-term…
The Trump Administration Must Prevent Maduro from Stealing from Americans to Aid His Repressive Regime
Venezuela’s recent facade election makes the country’s recovery a great deal less likely and it strengthens dictator strongman Nicolas Maduro’s grasp on power. The election results were a foregone conclusion…
There’s No Reason for Biden to Reward Iran
Back in September, Joe Biden described his Iran policy in an op-ed for CNN. After several paragraphs criticizing President Trump, Biden made an “unshakable commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear…
Putting Human Rights Into Negotiations With Iran
During the presidential campaign, candidate Biden never spared his words criticizing the Trump administration’s Iran policy, in particular the decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).…
America and China Are Entering the Dark Forest
“We are in the foothills of a Cold War.” Those were the words of Henry Kissinger when I interviewed him at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing last November. The observation…
America Can’t Face China Alone
You can’t beat something with nothing. But America seems determined to try. America’s attempt to integrate China into the global economy as a “responsible stakeholder” failed. China’s economy has become…
Why Brexit Matters
Because European Union business runs on Brussels time, the United Kingdom will be leaving the EU at precisely 11 p.m. GMT Friday. (If you’re in New York and want to tip your…
Iran’s Cat And Mouse Game: A Final Outcome in the Making
Historically, efforts to prevent dead set regimes from acquiring nuclear weapons have been marked mostly by embarrassing diplomatic fiascos. The chronology of every state-sponsored nuclear program began with developing the…
False Analogies: The Heart of Fake Foreign Policy News
The false analogy fallacy occurs when superficial similarities between events being compared are outnumbered by fundamental differences. This cognitive bad habit has always existed, but has become more prevalent since…
Present at the Demolition
Economists at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund must feel pretty lucky these days. They work for just about the only institutions set up in the aftermath of World…