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Trump in Beijing—Devoid of a Strategy, While Xi Deploys China’s

Trump in Beijing—Devoid of a Strategy, While Xi Deploys China’s

November 10, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Next to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, and its alliance with Moscow, Washington’s preference for perpetual conflict looks pitifully bankrupt. A tour of the Forbidden City, dinner in the Great Hall of the People, a review of the People’s Liberation…

How the US and Russia Can Make the Syria Ceasefire Deal Last

How the US and Russia Can Make the Syria Ceasefire Deal Last

February 29, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

We have a serious “cessation of hostilities” in Syria, finally, and it’s the best chance for peace since protests became violent four years ago. But there was no sliver of daylight between the joint announcement of the U.S.-Russian agreement last…

The government’s authoritarian war on journalism: How a flaccid press enabled this Orwellian disgrace

The government’s authoritarian war on journalism: How a flaccid press enabled this Orwellian disgrace

August 25, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Officials launch an all-out assault on free press — with nary an objection from the Fourth Estate’s guardians. Many readers will know, or know of, the Committee to Protect Journalists. It has been around since the early 1980s and does…

Obama Paid a High Price to Get Turkey to Fight ISIS

Obama Paid a High Price to Get Turkey to Fight ISIS

July 27, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The war against the Islamic State just widened to include Turkey as a combatant. The Obama administration has long tried to persuade the Islamic government of RecipTayip Erdoğan to get into the fray, but the vital question still needs to be…

The Abe-Obama Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Is in Trouble

The Abe-Obama Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Is in Trouble

May 4, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, until recently background noise for many Americans, is about to become another field of battle in Washington. As of last week, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe concluded an unusually long state visit, we’re on notice: This…

The real story behind Shinzo Abe’s visit: China, TPP and what the media won’t tell you about this state visit

The real story behind Shinzo Abe’s visit: China, TPP and what the media won’t tell you about this state visit

April 30, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

We witness reordination of a relationship between the U.S. and Japan that should have died a bad death decades ago. The grande fête Washington has laid on all week for Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, is very unusual on the…

Obama’s Deals with Cuba, Iran, TPP Split Congress

Obama’s Deals with Cuba, Iran, TPP Split Congress

April 20, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Ia single week, two interesting Congressional bills caught my attention. On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to send a bill to the floor requiring President Obama to subject any deal reached with Iran governing its nuclear program…

Ukraine's Second Front: Obama and Kerry Are Now at War With Europe

Ukraine’s Second Front: Obama and Kerry Are Now at War With Europe

February 9, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The Obama administration appears to be spinning the Ukraine crisis out of control and doing serious damage to trans-Atlantic relations all at once. Tensions between Europe and the U.S. over how to address the year-old crisis in Ukraine have simmered…

Why 2015 Will Make or Break a Spate of Global Alliances

Why 2015 Will Make or Break a Spate of Global Alliances

January 5, 2015 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

U.S., Russia, Iran, China, Europe all face loyalty tests Call it the “Year of Tenuous Ties” as new alliances take shape Obama has to rethink his approach to both Russia and China Last January this column nominated 2014 as “the…

Ukraine’s Election Poses Big Questions for the U.S.

Ukraine’s Election Poses Big Questions for the U.S.

October 27, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Ukrainians went to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament, and when the results are official, it is almost certain they will have a legislature with new faces and a confirmed tilt westward. That will surely please Washington and…

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