Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Trump’s Impending Presidency And Rising China Sea Tensions Are Putting Asia On Edge
PERTH, Australia ― As the inauguration of Donald J. Trump approaches, a number of world leaders are making last minute moves, bracing for America’s new president and his unpredictable foreign policy methods before they’re fully solidified. Asia is no different. There is more going on in the region than Secretary of State-designate Rex...
Nikki Haley Breaks With Trump On Russia And Muslim Registry
WASHINGTON ― South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a Senate hearing Wednesday that she opposes two of Trump’s most controversial positions: his determination to build a partnership with Russia and his support for a registry of Muslims in the...
Joe Biden: Russian Election-Meddling ‘Will Occur Again, I Promise You’
Joe Biden offered a stirring defense of liberalism, as well as a harsh rebuke of Russia in his final speech as vice president.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Biden warned of “dangerous demagogues and autocrats that have emerged seeking to capitalize on people’s insecurities. In this case, using...
Russians Mint ‘In Trump We Trust’ Coin Ahead Of U.S. Inauguration
Here’s some money that’s definitely funny.A Russian company has unveiled commemorative silver and gold coins featuring Donald Trump’s face ahead of his presidential inauguration.The limited-edition coins ― only 45 have been made ― feature a cherubic mug of the incoming president as well as the Statue of Liberty and the...
We Need a Robust Transatlantic Alliance
Europe and the US face three main challenges together As the new Congress convened and Donald Trump is about to become the new President of the United States, it is important that the US and Europe focus on the challenges facing us. During the Cold War and the fight against terrorism, the United States and Europe were close allies defending their...
Trump Called Russia America’s ‘Biggest Problem’ In 2014
Donald Trump may now gush that Russia is doing “great things,” but as recently as 2014 he called the nation America’s “biggest problem.” Trump also suggested imposing tough economic sanctions on Russia in the wake of its February invasion of the Crimea that year. He disdainfully scoffed at the media for failing to take the threat of Russia...
Trump Accuses CIA Director Of Leaking ‘Fake News’ About Russian Dossier
In an extraordinary escalation of tensions between the president-elect and his intelligence agencies, Donald Trump suggested in a tweet Sunday that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have leaked information about the existence of an unsubstantiated report that Russia allegedly has compromising information on Trump.“Was this the leaker of fake...
Trump Wants To Cut Russia Sanctions In Return For Nuclear Arms Deal
LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he told The Times of London.Trump, in an interview with the newspaper published online on Sunday, was deeply...
Five Reasons the Paris Conference Failed
As we said repeatedly in the build-up to Sunday’s gathering in Paris of representatives of 70 countries to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue, AJC has long supported the search for an enduring peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state accord. It is precisely in that spirit that we voiced our concerns about...
Exposing The Man Behind The Curtain
“When you attack a country,” John McCain, the long-serving Republican Senator from Arizona, who chairs the influential Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters on December 30, 2016, during a visit to Ukraine, a nation locked in a quasi-Civil War with Russian-backed separatist rebels, “it’s an act of war.”McCain was referring to...
