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Post #528: Chairman Xi Goes to Washington

The New Reality China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for…

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Post #527: The Crimes of the Trump Regime

(Note to the Reader: This is the fifth iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of…

Post #17 – Obama in Japan: A Missed Opportunity for Conflict Prevention

25 Apr 201427 Feb 2017

Most impartial observers of the China-Japan imbroglio over tiny islands claimed by both in the East China Sea—known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu—believe it has reached…

Post #16 – Too Good to be True: the Deal on Ukraine

21 Apr 201427 Feb 2017

The April 17 US-European Union-Russia-Ukraine “joint diplomatic statement” on Ukraine reads pretty reasonably. It condemns “extremism” of all kinds, calls for disarming illegal groups and their vacating all illegally seized…

Post #15: Obama’s Defining Moment?

15 Apr 201427 Feb 2017

Now that Crimea is in Vladimir Putin’s pocket, Russian soldiers, jets, artillery, and trucks are arrayed all along the border with eastern Ukraine. What will the US and NATO do…

Post #14 Making Peace in the Middle East: Part 2, A Different Way Forward

10 Apr 201427 Feb 2017

As I argued in the previous post (#13), the US approach to a Middle East peace is essentially flawed because it is one-sided and doesn’t effectively address the core obstacles…

Post #13 Making Peace in the Middle East, Part 1: The Wrong Way

8 Apr 201427 Feb 2017

At the close of an international gathering in November 2007, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed “to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations, and shall make every effort to conclude…

Post #11: Negotiating Ukraine’s Future

31 Mar 201427 Feb 2017

President Putin apparently called President Obama to propose talks on Ukraine, and as I write the two countries’ foreign ministers are meeting. This is a welcome move in view of…

Post #8: We Were Warned

21 Mar 201427 Feb 2017

How ironic that during the same week that scientists confirmed the Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe, other scientists confirmed that we are close to destroying…

Post #7: Addressing Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis

17 Mar 201427 Feb 2017

Remember Syria? The civil war there is entering its fourth year. While all eyes are on the Ukraine crisis, a far deadlier conflict goes on in Syria. Like his partner…

Post #6 China Threat? The Military Side of US-China Relations

11 Mar 201427 Feb 2017

Looking back over the history of the US-USSR Cold War competition, two aspects stand out: first, the USSR’s inability to catch up with the US in strategic weapons capability; second,…