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Trump Is Being Oddly Cozy With Xi Jinping (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Little was expected of President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and even less was actually accomplished. Trump met the Communist Party chairman’s plane on a red carpet, which he also did for Vladimir Putin last year (and which no president had done for any other leader since John F. Kennedy greeted U.K. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Andrews A
The Reaction to Trump’s Speech at the U.N. Was Revealing (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Over the past year, Donald Trump’s actions on the world stage have ushered in a new era, in which most of the world’s leaders realize they no longer need to pretend to respect the president of the United States. Their reception of his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday made clear that this era has firmly taken hold. His 38-minute address was interrupted just f
Are We Heading For “Pearl Harbor in Space”? (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink declared this week that the United States has weapons orbiting in outer space. It was the first time a U.S. official has publicly acknowledged this fact. The questions, which went unaddressed, are what sorts of weapons they are, why he’s announcing this now, and—most important—what it all means for the broader issues of war and peace.
This Trump Speech Sent a Dangerous Message to Iran—and the Rest of the World (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Sometimes I wonder whether President Trump simply doesn’t think before he speaks or whether he has a weird compulsion to blow up the world. It happened again Wednesday during his harangue at the Republican Midterm Convention, which was really a fancy name for a Trump campaign rally. Amid the usual rants of self-puffery and other fictions, he said this: If [Iran] had a nucl
Jared Kushner’s Incompetence Was on Full Display This Weekend (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It is a mystery why President Trump continues to rely on the hapless team of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff—his son-in-law and fellow real-estate tycoon, respectively—to hammer out treaties to end the most destructive wars of our time: Russia vs. Ukraine and Israel vs. the Palestinians. Yes, Trump doesn’t trust the professional diplomatic corps or experts of any kind. But
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