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The Trump Administration’s Cyber Strategy Fundamentally Misunderstands China’s Threat
The adoption of an offense-first strategy is a dangerous miscalculation. It will not diminish Beijing’s campaigns, and it coincides with a significant deterioration of cyber defenses that have kept U.S. networks and Americans safe.
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The Trump Administration’s Push for Greenland: What to Know
U.S. President Donald Trump has cast renewed focus on acquiring Greenland. The administration’s increasingly assertive push to take control of the Danish territory could have significant consequences for both the Arctic and the NATO alliance.
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Trump’s Stated Reasons for Taking Greenland Are Wrong – but the Tactics Fit with the Plan to Limit China’s Economic Interests
Trump’s national security rationale doesn’t make sense. Greenland, like the U.S., is a member of NATO, which provides a collective defense pact, meaning member nations will respond to an attack on any alliance member. If Trump’s real interest is blocking China’s access to Greenland’s critical minerals, then his coercive diplomacy is counterproductive in the extreme.
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Report: Americans Pay for 96% of Trump's Foreign Tariffs
New research shows Americans are paying almost the entire cost – 96% — of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, directly challenging his repeated assertion that foreign nations absorb the burden.“The claim that foreign countries pay these tariffs is a myth,” said Julian Hinz, research director at the Kiel Institute and one of the authors of the study. “The data show the opposite: Americans are footing the bill.”
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Supreme Court Is Set to Rule on Constitutionality of Trump Tariffs – but Not Their Wisdom
The question of whether a policy is legal or constitutional – which the justices are entertaining now with regard to Trump’s tariffs — isn’t the same as whether it’s wise. And as a trade economist, I worry that Trump’s tariffs also pose a threat to “economic democracy” – that is, the process of decision-making that incorporates the viewpoints of everyone affected by the decision.
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Trump Eyes Greenland — but Does the U.S. Actually Need It for National Security?
Some experts argue that a deal involving Denmark selling or ceding territory to the U.S. would be costly and unnecessary, particularly since the U.S. already has extensive access to Greenland.
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Hybrid Risks Rise as U.S. Withdraws from International Organizations
The United States’ decision to withdraw from many international organizations risks allowing Beijing and Moscow to further advance their undermining of global stability.
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U.S. Withdraws from Nonproliferation Center in Ukraine
Among the 66 international organizations, the Trump Administration has announced its intent to withdraw from the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU), an internationally funded organization based in Kyiv dedicated to preventing the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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Putin Takes Ukraine, Trump Takes Venezuela, So China Takes Taiwan, and While We're at It, Why Don’t France Take Mali and Burkina Faso
We have arrived at the brave new doctrine of global affairs. The rules have not disappeared. They have simply been rewritten in invisible ink, legible only to those with enough power to ignore them. Welcome to the age of international relations by example. Please keep your hands inside the borders while they last.
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Can the U.S. “Run” Venezuela? Military Force Can Topple a Dictator, But It Cannot Create Political Authority or Legitimacy
Coercion may deliver short-term obedience, but it is counterproductive as a strategy. If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority. Outside rule invites resistance, not stability.
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Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
The Constitution’s limits on foreign affairs power do not vanish simply because courts decline to enforce them. They persist both as structural commitments and as warnings. The fact that impeachment and political accountability may be the only remaining checks on such actions is not a solution; it is an increasingly hazardous pathology that puts America at far greater risk than any single foreign despot could, even one as brutal and destructive as Nicolás Maduro.
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Trump’s Strikes on Venezuela Will Not Embolden China to Invade Taiwan
There are reasons to criticize President Trump’s decision to strike Venezuela; however, giving China a green light to attack Taiwan is not one of them.
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When Conquest Becomes Precedent: Ukraine, Venezuela, Taiwan, and the Collapse of Restraint
Global security policymakers face a choice. They can treat norms as tools to be used selectively, or as foundations to be defended consistently. The first path offers short term flexibility. The second offers long term stability.
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Behind Trump’s Peace Efforts: A Strategic Focus on Critical Minerals
President Trump has repeatedly claimed to have ended eight wars since he returned to office. Accessing critical minerals and resource extraction appear to be at the core of those diplomatic efforts.
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The First MAGA National Security Strategy
Trump’s ideologically driven statement of strategic intent indicates that the United States could be willing to interfere abroad to promote an illiberal world—a stunning victory for the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.
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