Secretary Rubio’s ‘diplomatic masterstroke’ in Delhi unintentionally transformed political damage control into an involuntary roast of his own boss.
A summit that would normally send a reassuring message ... faces total uncertainty thanks to the weakness of the United States. The only person to blame for this is Trump.
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.
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.
A summit that would normally send a reassuring message ... faces total uncertainty thanks to the weakness of the United States. The only person to blame for this is Trump.
Something sensational happened in the United States last week Tuesday: 71 per cent of America’s Hispanic population voted for Barack Obama. In a sense, what this means is that America’s Hispanics were saying: we’re not white!
FDRÂ’s New Deal would have been considered socialist on Wall Street a few months ago, but now Wall Street, the cradle of crazy capitalism, has been crying out like a baby for government bailouts.