Outside the Beltway

It’s more than competition but less than war.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one . . .

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Playing two-level games.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

There’s no keeping politics out of these Games.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

Or just a bump in the road?

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.