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You wouldn't know it from the popular press, but the Trump administration's campaign of "maximum pressure" against Iran is working.

Since April of 2019, when the idea was first floated publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's plan to annex portions of the West Bank and Jordan River Valley has become widely unpopular.

Congress could ...create a working capital fund for space development. Doing so would ensure that America can incubate the innovation it needs to confront the hypersonic threat — and to look beyond it.

No one knows how the U.S.-China relationship will evolve in the next month, let alone the coming decade. In this way, policymaking is always a gamble of sorts. But if you know your opponent has a losing hand, playing the odds becomes easier. When it comes to China, Pompeo has this diplomatic acumen in spades.

On May 27, the U.S. Department of State formally assessed that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from mainland China

Only months after officially announcing its decision to partner with Chinese tech giant Huawei in building 5G telecom technology for the United Kingdom, the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson now appears to be reconsidering the move

...Trump’s decision to abandon the WHO — like his recent suggestion that he will invite Russia to the next G-7 meeting — will further complicate America’s efforts if it ever needs to rally its closest friends.

This Spring, the Trump administration formally released its official strategy for Central Asia...and made clear that it views Central Asia as a world region where the United States has intrinsic economic and security interests.

[T]he U.S. needs to demonstrate renewed regional leadership and work with producer, consumer and transit countries on the design and implementation of the missing large-scale infrastructure—like a new, larger scale pipeline connecting Azerbaijan to Europe—that can spur even greater integration of the region with the West in the years ahead.

The conflict between Israel and Iran has just entered a new phase - in cyberspace.

Since its outbreak earlier this year, the coronavirus has exacted a massive human toll around the world.

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel on his first foreign visit since the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic...the Secretary’s visit was intended ...to put Israel’s government on notice that it needed to rethink its growing political, economic and strategic ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). 

With Japan, the administration stands to damage relations at precisely the wrong time.

Earlier this Spring, the leadership of the U.S. Space Force, the country’s newest military branch, announced that it plans to roll out a new doctrine in the near future. But what that doctrine will look like remains to be seen — and Congress, which will be the ultimate arbiter of the document and the vision it contains, needs to ensure that the country gets it right.

If Chinese leaders really want peaceful unification, they need a mutually respectful approach.

Rather than sing the same sad song about the source of the coronavirus, the United States needs to lead a choir of nations in a hymn about how this pandemic, like SARS before it, was made possible by the lack of transparency intrinsic to China’s national socialist political system. It is only through collaboration among democracies can the United States seize the day and create what the world desperately needs: a muscular coalition of like-minded nations that will prevail in this crisis, as well as secure the future of free markets and liberal values in its aftermath.

The experiment is one of the brightest signals yet that the U.S. plans to pursue grand world-changing ideas like space solar power.

During the holy month of Ramadan, now underway, when TV viewership among Muslims traditionally skyrockets, Saudi Arabia’s MBC network is airing a series about Jewish families in a fictional Arab country in the late 1940s — a series that speaks volumes about what’s changing, and what isn’t, across the region.

Call it the new "China consensus."