Tag: China

Russian and Chinese opposition to the original draft of the sanctions resolution threatened to derail the proposal. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

UN approves watered-down North Korea sanctions

Joel Gehrke · September 11, 2017 10:19 pm

It's a gambit offering both risks and rewards. (Spc. 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano/U.S. Navy via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The positives and negatives of blockading North Korea

Tom Rogan · September 11, 2017 8:07 pm

The watered-down draft resolution reportedly replaces the oil embargo with a more gradual reduction in oil exports. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

US softens North Korea sanctions in pitch to China, Russia

Joel Gehrke · September 11, 2017 4:20 pm

In each case, the cure is potentially worse than the disease. Kim Jong Un knows it, which is why he feels he can get away with escalation. What, then, is the alternative? The alternative is what we have now, and what we have had for seventy years, namely deterrence through the threat of overwhelming retaliation. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Can anything now stop North Korea?

Dan Hannan · September 11, 2017 4:01 am

McCain also implored for better relations between the U.S. with Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John McCain: Kim Jong Un needs to know the price of aggression ‘will be extinction’

Naomi Lim · September 10, 2017 3:30 pm

Stephen Bannon, recently removed from President Trump's White House, will speak at an event in Hong Kong next week hosted by a brokerage firm owned by the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Steve Bannon to speak at Hong Kong event hosted by state-owned company

Joseph Lawler · September 9, 2017 6:43 pm

In this Aug. 10, 2017, file photo, a man watches a television screen showing President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at a train station in Seoul, South Korea. Trump's recent trip to Asia and his designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, unfortunately, reveal either an inability or disinclination to conduct foreign policy in this manner. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Beltway Confidential

On North Korea, deterrence and containment is Trump’s only option

Daniel DePetris · September 8, 2017 3:12 pm

While Beltway insiders will try to score the administration on the success or failure of their legislative agenda, it is only part of the story. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gov. Pete Ricketts: Trump is helping the states to govern

Pete Ricketts · September 7, 2017 4:01 am

Robert Zoellick, who was Bush's U.S. trade representative, warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Trump's threat to leave the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement makes no sense, as it gives China more power in the region. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Bush’s trade chief: ‘Oblivious,’ ‘incoherent’ Trump is ruining trade policy

Pete Kasperowicz · September 6, 2017 12:58 pm

This was a very short-sighted decision. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

The federal government’s myopic energy strategy is still picking winners and losers

Colin Hanna · September 6, 2017 4:09 am

The North tested what it claims was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting atop an intercontinental ballistic missile. Observers have estimated the explosion was about six times more powerful than the North's previous test as it seeks to acquire nuclear weapons capable of striking major American cities. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea nuclear test site could collapse and spread radiation across region, scientists say

Travis J. Tritten · September 5, 2017 8:26 pm

Trawl through the websites of U.S. Ivy League schools, and you'll find annual tuition fees at Brown come in at $52,213, Dartmouth at $51,468, Yale at $51,400, Princeton at $47,140, and Harvard at $44,990. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Beltway Confidential

Why US colleges are the world’s best and way too expensive

Tom Rogan · September 5, 2017 8:17 pm