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Trump-Xi Meeting Exposes American Weakness

Trump is traveling to Beijing in the hope of extinguishing fires that he himself has lit. At the negotiating table, Xi Jinping holds the better cards. From 13 to 15 May, Donald Trump will pay a state visit to President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Originally, the intention was to discuss the trade conflict between the […]

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Epic Interruptus: The Iranian Snare And American Defeat

On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran.  The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the […]

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Putin Warns Trump Not to Resume His Aggression Against Iran

Alexander Mercouris, who is perhaps the world’s leading analyst of international relations, and who was born into a Greek diplomatic family and is especially skilled at interpreting the meanings behind official read-outs of communications between heads-of-state, and other diplomatic communications, reported on April 30th that on April 29th, a historic […]

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EU Stands Firm: Uphold Trade Deal Amid Trump’s Tariff Turmoil

The European Commission has issued a stern call to the United States, urging Washington to honor last year’s hard-fought trade agreement despite a whirlwind of legal setbacks and fresh tariff threats from President Donald Trump. In a recently released statement, the Commission emphasized that the current chaos is undermining the […]

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The Post-US World Is Already Taking Shape

For nearly two decades, the idea of a comprehensive EU-India trade agreement hovered somewhere between ambition and inertia. Talks were launched in 2007, stalled repeatedly, and eventually abandoned, becoming a symbol of how difficult it was to reconcile Europe’s regulatory ambitions with India’s protectionist instincts. Yet recently, after a sudden […]

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The Price Of Every Ton: How Climate Damage Is Finally Being Traced To Its True Polluters

For decades, climate change has been described in sweeping, almost abstract terms: rising temperatures, melting ice caps, intensifying storms. Governments debated targets, companies issued pledges, and individuals were urged to reduce their carbon footprints. Yet one fundamental question remained unresolved: who, exactly, is responsible for the damage – and how […]