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 […]