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  • Trump may be abandoning Taiwan to China’s tender mercies

    Recent reports that the Trump administration is withholding roughly $400 million of military assistance to Taiwan are deeply disturbing. Although the White House maintains no final decisions have been made, the pause is eerily similar to Trump’s summer 2019 withholding of security assistance to Ukraine, for reasons entirely unrelated to Kyiv’s defense needs. China’s threat […]

  • Russia’s Drone Attack Is an Opening for U.S.-India Repair

    Russia’s recent breach of Polish airspace may be Donald Trump’s last chance to show resolute opposition to Moscow’s assaults against Ukraine. But the stakes aren’t limited to the European battlefront. America must also make clear to China and others that unprovoked aggression against U.S. friends and allies beyond Europe is equally unacceptable. For peace and […]

  • If we want peace in the Middle East, we must help free this country from Islamist terror

    Lebanon today faces the existential question of whether it can emerge from decades of war and destruction, or whether it will again be consumed by civil conflict and terrorist domination. Its chance to return to “normalcy” is because of Israel’s strikes against Iran and its Middle Eastern terrorist proxies, following Hamas’s barbaric October 7 attack. Hezbollah had […]

  • Why are Carr and Andrews legitimising China’s axis of authoritarianism?

    In its typically authoritarian way, China (or, more accurately, its Communist Party) is commemorating the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end with a big military parade on September 3. The whole gang will be there to celebrate with Xi Jinping; Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un lead the guest list, but most Western nations […]

  • The Gaza Reality

    As Israel’s Gaza campaign against Hamas intensifies, the levels of Middle Eastern political rhetoric have also risen.  Prominent Israeli political leaders proclaim their support for a ”Greater Israel,” a slogan perhaps as old as the modern Jewish state itself.  Arab leaders, and many others outside the region, continue to insist on a “two-state solution,” another […]

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Trump may be abandoning Taiwan to China’s tender mercies

9/25/2025

Recent reports that the Trump administration is withholding roughly $400 million of military assistance to Taiwan are deeply disturbing. Although the White House maintains no final decisions have been made, the pause is eerily similar...

Russia’s Drone Attack Is an Opening for U.S.-India Repair

9/25/2025

Russia’s recent breach of Polish airspace may be Donald Trump’s last chance to show resolute opposition to Moscow’s assaults against Ukraine. But the stakes aren’t limited to the European battlefront. America must also make clear...

If we want peace in the Middle East, we must help free this country from Islamist terror

9/11/2025

Lebanon today faces the existential question of whether it can emerge from decades of war and destruction, or whether it will again be consumed by civil conflict and terrorist domination. Its chance to return to “normalcy” is...

Why are Carr and Andrews legitimising China’s axis of authoritarianism?

9/11/2025

In its typically authoritarian way, China (or, more accurately, its Communist Party) is commemorating the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end with a big military parade on September 3. The whole gang will be...

The Gaza Reality

9/11/2025

As Israel’s Gaza campaign against Hamas intensifies, the levels of Middle Eastern political rhetoric have also risen.  Prominent Israeli political leaders proclaim their support for a ”Greater Israel,” a slogan perhaps as old as the...

ABOUT JOHN BOLTON

Ambassador John Bolton, a diplomat and a lawyer, has spent many years in public service. He served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2005-2006. He was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001 to 2005. In the Reagan Administration, he was an Assistant Attorney General.