China Blinks: Major US-China Trade Deal Signals Strategic Shift
I’ve said for years that China could not win a prolonged trade war with the United States. This weekend, in Geneva, that prediction was vindicated.
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Fifty Years After Saigon: Remembering the Nobility of a Betrayed Cause
Fifty years ago, April 30, 1975, the world watched in horror and disbelief as the last American helicopter lifted off from the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon. South Vietnam had fallen in the manner of Ernest Hemingway, “first gradually, then suddenly”: a decades-long war, a relative peace, and then a mad dash by the North Vietnamese Army that consumed the country in less than a month.
Crisis in the Kremlin: Assassinations, Internal Divisions, and a Regime Under Pressure
Two high-ranking Russian generals have been assassinated near Moscow in the span of just six months—both killed by remote-controlled car bombs. These brazen attacks, occurring in the heart of Russia’s power structure, point to a disturbing new pattern unfolding under President Vladimir Putin’s watch.