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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has now made nearly all of his key appointments. He has stacked his cabinet with China hawks, with one notable exception in Elon Musk. The incoming Trump team’s track record on China offers some clues as to where the administration might take China policy come January, and where clashes might emerge. […]
The breadth of falsehoods circulating in the months and days prior to Election Day in the United States was breathtaking in both scale and creativity. It was, as the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly said, an “unprecedented amount of disinformation.” Voters were treated to videos masquerading as FBI-generated or CBS […]
It is far too early to make bold pronouncements on what a second Trump administration portends for U.S. policy across a region as complicated as the Middle East. Still, one part of that conflict-ridden region stands out as more promising than the rest and has already drawn President-elect Donald Trump’s attention. Indeed, the Gulf’s the […]
Conservative economist Oren Cass, the founder of the increasingly influential think tank American Compass, argues that tariffs are a price correction to incentivize domestic production. “The way we have to understand tariffs is as a recognition that making things does matter,” he explains. Conservative economist Oren Cass, the founder of the increasingly influential think tank […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has called tariffs “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” That is not how other world leaders and CEOs see it. If Trump follows through on his proposal to impose 60 percent tariffs on China and 20 percent on other countries, the potential for disruption and chaos is significant. But beyond […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has stirred controversy with most his cabinet appointments. His selections thus far are people who have made it clear that they will be totally loyal to the president and allow for little daylight between their agency and Oval Office. Furthermore, a number of them are individuals who have been openly hostile […]
Just hours after former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his candidacy for U.S. attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to replace him. Bondi is a close Trump ally who served as Florida’s attorney general between 2011 and 2019. During Trump’s first presidency, she served on his opioid and […]
Emerging powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East have showered U.S. President-elect Donald Trump with congratulations since he won the election. The general response from these countries—with a few notable exceptions such as Brazil and Mexico—has been much warmer than it was after outgoing President Joe Biden’s win in 2020. “You are […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary has been both widely celebrated and condemned because of the latter’s views on oil, gas, and climate change. The Wall Street Journal summed up the appointment with the headline: “Trump’s Choice for Energy Secretary Is a Fracking Booster and Climate Skeptic.” […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “tariff man,” campaigned on the promise of ratcheting import duties as high as 60 percent against all goods from China, and perhaps 20 percent on everything from everywhere else. And he might be able to do it—including by drawing on little-remembered authorities from the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the […]