The unexpected four years of the Donald Trump presidency took U.S. foreign and domestic policies in troubling directions. Frontally rejecting all the pillars of what he took to be the bipartisan establishment’s foreign policy, Trump set the United States on a boldly different path. He rejected long-standing alliance commitments, calling […]
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Taiwan Receives Another Shipment Of COVID-19 Vaccines From Japan
Taiwan on Thursday, July 15, received 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan in the third such donation this year. Japan has so far donated a total of 3.3 million vaccine doses since June. While thanking Japan, Taiwan called the country a ‘real friend’. “Good things truly come […]
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BRICS Approve India’s Proposals At Contact Group On Economic And Trade Issues Held In July
In a recent development, members of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) agreed to take forward India’s proposals that were circulated in the 2021 BRICS meeting on Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI). The decision was taken in a meeting that was held on July 12-14, […]
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Biden at Six Months: How Successful Is His Foreign Policy?
China: Biden Has Embraced ‘Strategic Competition’ By Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society and former Australian prime minister When U.S. President Joe Biden entered office, some in Beijing assumed the new administration would move quickly to “reset” U.S.-China relations, scale back trade tariffs, and reduce sanctions imposed over the […]
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Kadhimi Visits the White House
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce troop withdrawal from Iraq , Tunisia ’s president dismisses its prime minister following anti-government protests, and floods in India […]
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Be Wary of China Threat Inflation
Plenty. The China threat is being inflated in ways that, as with the Soviet threat in the Cold War and terrorism post-9/11, are counterproductive for foreign-policy strategy and distort domestic politics in dangerous ways. The China threat helped pass an over $200 billion international competitiveness bill with rare bipartisan support. […]
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Afghanistan’s revenue getting lost as Taliban took over its six dry ports
Kabul, Afghanistan: As the Taliban is capturing the Afghanistan state, the government’s revenue is getting lesser with time, specially after the six dry ports went in the hands of Taliban in two months. Afghanistan Ministry of Finance on Saturday announced that six dry ports have fallen to the Taliban in […]