Washington has spent decades talking about the U.S.-Japan alliance in military terms. Carrier groups. Missile defense. Deterrence. Those things matter enormously. But the alliance runs far deeper […]
Author: James Carter And Jacob Choe
When President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping sat down in Beijing this week, most of the world was watching for signals about tariffs, Taiwan, and technology. […]
Washington has a habit of dressing up failure as sophistication. Thirty years of engagement with Iran — the diplomacy, the frameworks, the endless European intermediaries — produced […]
For years, Washington treated critical minerals as a paperwork problem. If only permits moved faster, investors would flock, and supply chains would hum. How quaint. That tidy […]
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump unveiled a new global initiative—the “Board of Peace”—and promoted it as a flexible mechanism for dialogue and […]
For years, critics have lazily described Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda as de-globalization — a retreat from the world, a rejection of trade, an inward […]
