Can India and the U.S. Repair Their Relationship?
On July 30, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a baseline tariff of 25 percent on Indian exports, along with “a penalty” for buying oil and military equipment from Russia. On ...
Tag: U.S. Foreign Policy
Why Steve Witkoff Is Trump’s Master of Disaster
Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Russia would face “severe consequences” if it didn’t agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine? When he threatened to impose draconian sanctions if ...
Trump Has No Idea How to Do Diplomacy
The combination of that weird summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin and the only slightly less bizarre gathering of NATO leaders in Washington, was the latest reminder that U.S. President ...
A Brief History of Trump’s Tumultuous Relationship With Zelensky
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington on Aug. 18 for pivotal talks over the future of Russia’s war in Ukraine, he will be backed by several of his ...
Trump’s Putin Gambit Failed—but Maybe It Was Still Worth Trying
U.S. President Donald Trump drew a lot of flak for inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin onto U.S. soil for the first time in a decade, complete with a red carpet, ...
A New Chapter in the U.S.-China Chip Trade
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. chipmakers reach new deal on exports to China, a top Chinese diplomat is detained for questioning, and ships collide in ...
With Territory Comes Torment
In December 1899, John Barrett, a former minister to Siam (today Thailand) who had spent months accompanying the U.S. Navy squadron that defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, wrote ...
Why Everyone in Washington Is a ‘Realist’ Now
If there is one thing that both political parties can agree on, it’s that traditional U.S. foreign policy lies in ruins—or, at least, the idea of America-as-globocop that prevailed in ...
Deeper U.S. Cooperation With Russia Is Coming
On July 15, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy toward Russia: secondary tariffs that would take effect within 50 days unless Russian President Vladimir ...
Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Promise of Realism
The Trump administration continues to abandon human rights and democracy as elements of its foreign policy. On July 17, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to ...
