Foreign Control Is a Tough Trade

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

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.

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

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

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.