As the trade fight between China and the United States continues, David Mulford, former U.S. ambassador to India took a longer-term view of in a recent brief to the Hoover Institution Journal Defining Ideas. Mulford pins the current situation on a recent decline in U.S global leadership that has given China the opportunity to step […]
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Report: Is Long-Term Nation Building Worth It?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced July 29 that President Trump wanted a U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan before the 2020 election—something the president has wanted in the past, but it has yet to happen. It’s been nearly 18 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 […]
Groups Urge Human Rights Focus During Pakistan PM Visit
Members of the Sindh Caucus and the Sindhi American Political Action Committee (SAPAC) voiced concerns about human rights violations in Pakistan’s Sindh Province to U.S. officials during Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s three-day visit to the United States in July. In a bipartisan letter addressed to President Donald Trump, 10 members of Congress urged the […]
An International Race Toward Hypersonic Missiles
Another arms race is shaping up, and this time around, the race is to develop hypersonic missiles. A discussion of this was the centerpiece of a panel at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace panel on July 9. According to R. Jeffrey Smith, managing editor for National Security at the Center for Public Integrity, China, […]
EU in Middle of Trade War Between U.S. and China
The director general of trade for the European Commission emphasized shared concerns with the United States related to China’s growing threat to the economic market in a discussion July 22 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In her first official trip to the United States as director, Sabine Weyand also touched on the […]
BeiDou Rivaling GPS and Prompting Security Concerns
When China launched Long March 3B on June 24, it was China’s ninth successful launch in 2019 and the country’s latest move to develop their own advanced positioning, navigation, and timing system—the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). It also was the latest show of power from China’s National Space Administration. In early January 2019, China […]
Iranian Revolution at 40: Escaping the ’79 Hostage Crisis
It was around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1979, almost 40 years ago, when Mark Lijek, a 29-year-old American Citizens Services officer for the U.S. Consulate in Tehran, heard commotion outside his office. That day, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 66 Americans. The takeover was, in part, a response to […]
Authoritarian Corruption Takes Advantage of Free States
A new report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) predicts the future turmoil driven by competition between free societies and the authoritarian-corruption nexus will be a “defining threat to freedom in the 21st century.” The report was presented by Clay R. Fuller, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at AEI, on July 8. Dismantling the Authoritarian-Corruption Nexus […]
DHS and DOJ Increase Restrictions for Asylum Seekers
The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Monday new restrictions for asylum seekers from third countries who pass through Mexico trying to enter the United States across the southern border. Specifically, the joint Interim Final Rule (IFR) allows U.S. entry to asylum seekers from third countries who qualify under three exceptions. They must demonstrate […]
Data Shows Declining Support for U.S. in Middle East
WASHINGTON—Preference for stronger U.S. relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has dropped in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon since 2016, according to new data from the Arab Barometer, a nonpartisan research network providing insight into social, political, and economic attitudes of citizens throughout the Arab world. The findings were presented at the […]