Geopolitics & international affairs
The Iran war is winding down, and Beijing is taking notes. As Foreign Policy’s James Palmer writes in his China Brief newsletter this week, the lessons China draws from the conflict will shape its strategic posture across the Middle East and beyond for years to come. The war exposed something China has long tried to […]
The last day of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains produced a cascade of events that capture the fragility of the peace the world is hoping for. On the same Wednesday the seven leaders welcomed the US-Iran framework deal and called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, the American president warned he would “go back to shooting” […]
Donald Trump emerged from a closed-door meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains on Tuesday and gave a clear message to Moscow: “Russia should make a deal.” The meeting lasted one hour and 15 minutes and included the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, and Japan. Trump described it as “very […]
The United States and Iran are set to launch formal negotiations on a final settlement to their conflict on June 19 in Switzerland, officials confirmed, marking the beginning of what is meant to be a 60-day window to resolve the nuclear question that triggered the war. The framework agreement that made these talks possible was […]
The conventional wisdom settling in after the announcement of a framework deal to end the war in Iran is that the United States and Israel lost. The narrative writes itself: the US failed to dismantle Iran’s regime, failed to eliminate its missile capability entirely, and ended up negotiating with the same government it tried to […]
The week in the occupied Palestinian territories told two conflicting stories that define the gap between international law and Israeli policy. On one side, four Western nations coordinated sanctions against Israeli settlers and the organizations that enable them. On the other, the Israeli government pushed forward with a billion-shekel funding package for the very outposts […]
Evian-les-Bains is hosting a summit with two agendas, and the gap between them is the real story of this G7. European leaders arrived determined to keep Ukraine at the center of the conversation, but President Trump has made clear his focus lies elsewhere: closing out the Iran nuclear file and pressing allies on trade imbalances. […]
EVIAN, France — A tentative US-Iran peace framework announced on day 108 of the war has fractured the Western alliance at the G7 even before it is signed. President Donald Trump declared the deal moving to a “second stage” and told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to be “more responsible with respect […]
Putin is not at the G7 summit in Canada this week. He does not need to be. Through direct phone calls with Donald Trump, a relentless BRICS economic counter-narrative, and the spectacle of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kremlin is running an influence operation from outside the room that European leaders say is […]
Two strategic bomber crashes in 48 hours. On the same day, June 15, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed on takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California, killing all eight crew members aboard. Thousands of miles away in Siberia, a Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire went down near Svirsk in the Irkutsk region during a […]
