Escalating the US Trade War Is Not in China’s Interest. Reform Is What it Must Do

The global backdrop has changed. Resource competition has escalated. It is no longer about interdependence.

The question Trump faces in Beijing will no longer be “whether he can strike a deal,” but rather, “what will he give up to get one.”

If the President of the United States behaves primarily as the chief negotiator for corporate America, then alliances themselves become contingent commodities.

The price of flippancy in the White House and the criminal intransigence of the Tehran regime is being paid by the Iranians who, after nearly half a century of cruel dictatorship, deserve to be free.

The agreements are not the EU’s problem; it is the lack of political will in its capital cities.