The tension between Trump and Zelensky at the White House may be not just a spat but a display of a serious strategic American fissure in how to deal with Russia and China. In early January 2020, as soon as the news of Covid from China spread and Beijing ordered a lockdown on several cities, […]
It’s a US capitalist revolution, but its voice, geared towards domestic politics, is backfiring internationally, undermining the president and the country. What is fairer? The rock show of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, brandishing a chainsaw and promising to cut civil servants’ jobs (i.e., take wealth from the poor and give it […]
Trump may wish to get a peace deal and win the mid-term elections, but blaming Zelensky is a step too far. It may unravel everything and trap the president in an impossible position US President Donald Trump changed his version of the war, blaming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and absolving Russian president Vladimir Putin to […]
There’s nothing particularly new about a gathering of Christian ministers praying around U.S. President Donald Trump to bless him before the flashlights. Pastor Paula White-Cain was appointed to head the White House Faith Office. It happened, and it is happening again—for once, in a very imaginative and surprising start to the presidency, the scene wasn’t […]
Around a year before the time of the first summit between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, David Goldman and I offered the following recommendations. It was a critical juncture in bilateral relations, and perhaps both governments made missteps. Had China not rejected the environmental agreement with the U.S. in December of […]
Trump’s whirlwind of executive orders was a skillful staging of his rhetoric’s emotional and communicative efficiency. Above all, two topics touch the fabric of the Nation: citizenship and immigration. The United States has also been built on the strength (skilled or unskilled) of immigrants. Since immigration intersects with foreign politics, diplomacy, and national security, many Supreme Court […]
The challenge posed to America by China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) system is profound—it calls into question the U.S.’s overall approach to confronting China. DeepSeek offers innovative solutions starting from an original position of weakness. America believed that by monopolizing the use and development of sophisticated microchips, it would forever cripple China’s technological advancement. […]
