Trump May Leave Singapore Triumphant, but Only His Base Will Be Convinced

Turning the arms sales into a talking point erodes Taiwan’s trust in the United States as its protector.

[T]he United States had itself rendered that alliance network more fragile.

The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.

Using Lebanon as a bargaining chip through Washington’s Israeli proxy is Trump’s way of leveling the playing field.

During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.