Trump administration tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle
A flurry of recent diplomatic activity has seen two competing peace plans for Ukraine emerge. The first, widely touted as a US plan, was apparently hashed out between Kremlin insider...
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US dangles F-35s as Saudi hunts edge in shifting Mideast...
The US is dangling the F-35 stealth fighter before Saudi Arabia, igniting a new scramble for airpower dominance in the Middle East. This month, US President Donald Trump and Saudi...
Trump’s Ukraine plan: Realism mercifully returns to Washington
The howls of outrage from the foreign policy establishment over President Trump’s 28-point Ukraine peace plan tell you everything you need to know about why such a plan is necessary...
Trump’s Xi and Takaichi calls ring market alarm bells
President Donald Trump picked up the phone twice in one day on Monday — first to China’s Xi Jinping, then to Japan’s Sanae Takaichi — with the world’s most important...
Why Goldman Sachs is so optimistic about China
TOKYO – Something very few political wonks saw coming in 2025 was the extent to which China would get the better of Donald Trump. To be sure, few serious economists...
Vietnam drowning in misrule, deflection and censorship
Severe flooding in south-central Vietnam has killed scores, displaced thousands and submerged entire districts. International news outlets have framed the event as the result of extreme rainfall. But for people...
Undersea cable risks imperil East Asia’s AI future
The vulnerabilities of East Asia’s submarine telecommunications cable system have become impossible to ignore in the AI age. Yet the responses proposed or recently adopted by Taiwan, Japan, South Korea...
Nvidia’s H200 chips could be ‘sugar-coated bullets’ for China
Washington reportedly is considering allowing the export of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs) to China, but Chinese commentators warn the offer could amount to “sugar-coated bullets” that would slow...
Statehood issue again could block Israel, Arabs from making nice
Mohammed bin Salman wants to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham accords, the network of agreements to normalize Israel’s relations with other countries in the Middle East and, increasingly, beyond....
‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’ depicts grueling gig-economy toil
From the HBO drama Succession to Netflix reality show Selling Sunset, TV depictions of work tend to treat it as a vehicle for social betterment rather than a means of...
