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Like Suez for the Brits, Hormuz spells doom for US empire

Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but

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America’s Taiwan gap utterly exposed at Trump-Xi summit

The most revealing line of last week’s Trump-Xi summit was not delivered at the Great Hall of the People. It came afterward, aboard Air Force One, when the American president was asked by Fox News what he thought of the island that had dominated his two days of talks with Xi

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From indemnity to indispensability: China’s 125-year reversal

When eight foreign flags flew over Beijing in August 1900, no one in the Forbidden City could have imagined that the city would, 125 years later, host the president of the United States as a guest of honor and the president of Russia just days afterward. The contrast is almost

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Romney calls Cassidy’s defeat a ‘loss for the country'

Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Sunday described Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-La.) defeat in the Louisiana Republican primary on Saturday as a "loss for the country." Cassidy lost the race in Louisiana's newly closed primary system following years of disagreement with President

Wild ‘Hope’ Livens Up Sleepy Cannes

The big-budget sci-fi action allegory, which marks the first feature from South Korean director Na Hong-jin since 2016’s horror smash 'The Wailing,' received what may be the most enthusiastic and prolonged standing ovation of any film playing in competition.