M. Taylor Fravel contends that the Chinese government isn’t likely to lash out militarily to distract from its domestic problems: Since 1949, China has frequently suffered from significant ethnic and political unrest and economic shocks. But virtually no leaders have...
Human Rights Watch released a new report on how Saudi forces have been killing Ethiopian migrants by the hundreds and possibly even the thousands over the last year and a half: Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers...
Eldar Mamedov responds to the hawkish screeching about the deal that the administration reached to get the Iranian government to free five American prisoners that it had been unjustly detaining: The outcry is clearly politically motivated, as it seeks to depict Biden...
Biden’s bizarre and wrongheaded push for a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is getting a lot of coverage this week. The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal both published bigstories about it today, and the reports agree on the general outlines of the deal...
The Associated Press reports on a truly terrible idea that the Biden administration is considering: The US military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at...
Tom Friedman oversells the significance of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia:First, a U.S.-Saudi security pact that produces normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and the Jewish state – while curtailing Saudi-China relations – would be a game...
Marco Rubio demands that the US fully embraces the policy that already failed and caused massive suffering:To regain foreign policy coherence on Venezuela, we must return to the maximum pressure campaign of the Trump administration.It is a sign of how deranged the...
The Biden administration is making a huge mistake:President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine, with drawdown of the weapons from Defense Department stocks due to be announced Friday.The move, which will bypass U.S. law prohibiting...
The growing enthusiasm for a military option in Mexico just shows how addicted to military intervention many Republicans are.Ron DeSantis is trying to catch up with the other Republican hawks that want to attack Mexico:DeSantis, who’s trailing Trump in national polls...
Some House Democrats, including Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on the Biden administration to provide sanctions relief for Venezuela:A group of House Democrats called on the Biden administration to ease sanctions...
