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Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

March 27, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

For our national security, we need self-control more than we need arms-control talks. Let us think together about the letter four United States senators sent recently to the now departed secretary of state Rex Tillerson, urging him to start arms-control…

Why Baucus Is the Wrong Man as China’s Ambassador

Why Baucus Is the Wrong Man as China’s Ambassador

December 23, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

There are several reasons President Obama just named Max Baucus, the long-serving senator from Montana, as his next ambassador to China. There are also several reasons to judge Baucus the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time…

U.S. China Policy: A Snake with Three Heads

U.S. China Policy: A Snake with Three Heads

November 16, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It’s dismaying to consider that the world’s largest economy may not know what it’s doing when faced with the planet’s No. 2 economy (and one of the fastest growing). But three of Washington’s most recent moves toward mainland China—the security…

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