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Ryan Heath, Politico EU

Although the U.K. has now sealed a trade deal with the European Union, covering $900 billion in tariff-free goods and services annually, the British prime minister's hopes for a new arrangement with the United States are confronting the reality of a transatlantic relationship that is now anything but special.

Vanessa Rubio, Americas Quarterly

The president's dismantling of the economy may soon come to haunt him.

Merrill Matthews, The Hill

President-elect Joe Biden won by running as the antithesis of President Donald Trump. But that doesn't mean that everything Trump did was bad. Prior to the pandemic,

Ana Quintana, RealClearWorld

Few countries impact the lives of Americans like Mexico does. Mexico is the United States' largest trading partner, with over $700 billion annually bought and sold between both markets. Beyond that, citizens along both sides of our 2,000-mile-long border pay the steep costs of the organized drug trade.

Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review

During a year in which it was an unrepentant geopolitical arsonist, China is emerging stronger than ever.

Kugelman & Weinstein, LF

The past few years have seen the emergence of two major new political movements in Pakistan—each of which holds important implications for understanding the country's current state of play. One is the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a civil society group comprised mainly of ethnic Pashtuns—who live primarily in Pakistan's tribal areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, and parts of the port city of Karachi. The other is Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a religious political party. Читать дальше...

Ron Tiersky, RealClearWorld

This presidential election has been the most tumultuous in modern American history. Many Americans worry that American democracy is being irreparably damaged, and that our country's best relationships around the world are in grave danger.

Con Coughlin, National

To judge from the wild claims that have been emanating from Tehran, as the country marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani, the regime has learnt nothing from the demise of its leader.

Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures

In a White House meeting just weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration, then-President Barack Obama warned the president-elect that the North Korean nuclear threat would be the thorniest national security challenge he would inherit. Kim Jong Un then welcomed Trump to office with nearly two dozen ballistic missile tests in 2017 alone, showing off increasingly sophisticated capabilities with each, including solid-fuel engines and a pair of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Читать дальше...

Richard Hanania, Palladium

Across the political spectrum, there is widespread agreement that America must get serious about the threat posed by China. As the Trump administration comes to a close, the State Department has just released a document called ‘The Elements of the China Challenge'. A distillation of conventional wisdom among national security experts and government officials, it argues that the U.S. needs a concerted effort to push back against Beijing. On its...

Michael Rubin, 1945

Speculation about the possibility of a U.S attack on Iran has reached a fever pitch as President Donald Trump's administration winds down. Far from signaling the inevitability of an attack, the partisan panic is a last hurrah...