American plans to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty bring back cold-war era fears THE MORNING before signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 1987, Ronald Reagan, then president of America, gifted his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, a pair of cufflinks. They showed the forging of ploughshares …
A White House official called any suggestion of religious favoritism ‘demonstrably false.’ Evangelical Christians came out aggressively for Donald Trump in 2016. As president, Trump has returned the favor, delivering for the Christian right — not just at home, but also overseas. Trump defied international opinion and recognized Jerusalem as …
WASHINGTON — When President Trump made his first visit to the United Nations last year, he ridiculed North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as a suicidal “rocket man” and threatened to “totally destroy” his country. He also vowed to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, which he called an “embarrassment to …
When will Americans speak up to stop the reordering of alliances the world has relied on for security and prosperity? A little more than a week ago, as President Trump completed his world mini-tour, my Ukrainian researcher emailed me. She witnessed some of the violence of Ukraine’s latest revolution and …
After tense exchanges with allies before the G-7, the president looks forward to meeting the leaders of North Korea and Russia. President Donald Trump is confounding foreign policy norms by turning his back on some of America’s closest friends — even as he reaches out to longtime U.S. rivals. Trump …
How Washington pivoted from finger-wagging to appeasement. Two important American visitors showed up in Budapest on Wednesday. One was Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House adviser who is an admirer of Hungary’s strongman, Viktor Orban; he addressed a conference on “Europe’s Future ” organized by Mária Schmidt, an Orban counselor with Bannon-esque …
The CIA director’s deep involvement in talks with the North Korean leader shows Trump has little regard for Senate or diplomatic procedure. Since President Trump announced his intention to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un back in March, many doubted that the meeting would actually take place. But the odds …
Not all spooks are like James Bond ON MARCH 14th Britain expelled 23 “undeclared intelligence officers” from Russia’s embassy in London. The move came after a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury. In a co-ordinated show …
“People are trying to avoid appearing terrified, but people are deeply concerned.” ~TONG ZHAO, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing, on the apprehension of American allies in Asia about the appointment of John R. Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser. Source: Quotation …
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boards his plane to depart at the end of a five-country swing through Africa from Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, March 12, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ask some Africans what they think of President Donald Trump and they just shake their …
THE HAGUE — When President Trump picked Peter Hoekstra to be his ambassador to the Netherlands, he was inadvertently setting up an experiment: Would an exponent of the U.S. leader’s own devil-may-care approach to accuracy flourish outside the hothouse environment back home? Early results suggest that exporting Trump’s style could be …
President Trump has shared warm photo-ops with autocrats in Beijing, Riyadh and Manila. But the longstanding special bond with Great Britain, one of America’s closest partners, is more frigid than ever, and now Trump has been forced to cancel a first visit to London over fears of mass protests. They …