Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October
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Geopolitics
Don’t let our next UN secretary-general be a shill for China, Cuba and Hamas
Excerpt The race to choose the next U.N. secretary-general has yet to produce a clear frontrunner, but at least one candidate currently making headway should ring alarm bells in Washington. The most...
Op-eds
Leaked Roadmap Shows How Moscow Is Institutionalizing Ties With Iran
Russia is transforming its partnership with Iran from a series of bilateral projects into a state-managed strategic portfolio. A nonpublic Russian government roadmap, revealed by Fox News Digital on September...
Policy Briefs
US got pandas from China. Trump needs a lot more than that
Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping traded goodwill and extended a trade truce, but the rivalry hasn't softened. Soybeans, rare earths and Taiwan will show whether Beijing is playing ball.
Op-eds
Strait Lines
Foreign Podicy
How Trump Redefined U.S.-Iran Policy At The UN
Trump makes his case and raises the stakes for the Islamic Republic in New York.
Op-eds
Strait Lines
Generation Jihad
Confronting Authoritarians around the Globe
Foreign Podicy
Previewing the Trump-Xi Summit
Media Calls
The Abraham Accords at Six: How a New Paradigm Outpaced the Old Peace
Six years after the Abraham Accords were signed on the White House lawn, perhaps the clearest evidence of how profoundly they have changed the Middle East came not at another diplomatic ceremony, but behind...
Op-eds
Arming the U.S. military for the new cold war
More money necessary but not sufficient
Op-eds
Britain’s refusal to designate the Houthis is ‘increasingly absurd’
Excerpt Andy Burnham is preparing to cut £200 off energy bills for some of Britain’s poorest households this winter as the Iran war sends another shudder through global energy markets. It is an understandable...
Op-eds
Previewing the 2026 UN General Assembly
Media Calls
Post-9/11 Lessons — We Overlooked Festering Geostrategic Issues
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it is important to reflect on the historic significance of that atrocity and on the lessons we have drawn and should draw from it. The 20 years that followed...
Op-eds
China’s Push for Transport Integration Could Expand Beijing’s Control of Central Asian Trade Routes
A new front in the U.S.-China competition is taking shape along the Middle Corridor, the critical trade route linking China and Europe while bypassing Russia and Iran. This corridor, also known as the...
Policy Briefs
The New Islamic Empire: Will Turkey Inherit Iran’s Mantle?
Despite being 1,000 miles apart and in different time zones, Turkey and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a military partnership that operates in direct violation of a standing UN arms embargo....
Op-eds
Hezbollah Has Lost. Now It Must Admit It
Let us, for a moment, entertain a thought experiment. What if Hezbollah had gotten its political way? Imagine that in late 2024, after Hezbollah’s resounding military defeat, Lebanon’s Parliament had...
Op-eds
Advice to Europe: “America hasn’t won, but Iran may be losing.”
*This article was originally published in French In Europe, and especially in France, the verdict seems to be in. The United States, we are told, has pursued a strategy toward Iran that is as brutal...
Op-eds
Stalled in Ukraine, Putin may try to break NATO
Dwight Eisenhower is said to have counseled that if a problem can’t be solved, you should enlarge it. Is Vladimir Putin now applying that maxim perversely? I’ll bet you a ruble the CIA...
Op-eds
The Axis of Aggressors Is Getting Ready for War. Is America?
America has grown addicted to the phrase “wars of choice,” often using it to vilify the U.S. government for campaigns deemed unnecessary. Wholesale skepticism of military power, however, undermines...