Obama’s Diplomatic Disaster

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

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

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.

Europeans do not have a choice. They have to get along with both Xi’s China and Trump’s America.