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Biden’s China plan faces biggest threat from GOP leaders

06 Feb 2021

President Joe Biden went to the State Department on Thursday to reaffirm his commitment to diplomacy and US alliances, after a Trump presidency that disdained both and gutted the foreign...

Navalny’s bravery has a message for GOP

20 Jan 2021

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading fighter for democracy, returned home this week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin attempt to murder him by poison as he campaigned in Siberia. ...

Trump’s move of replacing Ginsburg should elicit praise from his autocrat buddies

23 Sep 2020

When Mitch McConnell blocked President Barack Obama’s choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in March 2016, he claimed he wanted to “let the American people decide” in November elections...

White House war on science undermines trust in COVID-19 vaccine and America’s reputation worldwide

19 Sep 2020

Late in the fourth year of the Trump presidency, the United States is confronting a far more dangerous war than the “forever wars” he says he is ending. This is...

Hong Kong crackdown is dangerous for the world

11 Jul 2020

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in November. Then...

President Trump’s love of military undermines democracy

07 Jun 2020

On June 4, 1989, exactly 41 years ago, China’s military shot, killed and arrested thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters came...

A reason why America must stand with Hong Kong against Beijing’s efforts to crush its freedoms

29 May 2020

A major turning point in US-Chinese relations occurred Thursday. It nominally involves the future of Hong Kong, but has major significance for Washington and the wider world. China’s National...

Will Trump follow Putin’s political formula?

12 Mar 2020

While world leaders focused this week on coping with the coronavirus, Vladimir Putin’s attention was elsewhere. The Russian president was busy setting himself up as president for life. ...

What if Americans care about Ukraine?

03 Feb 2020

As he cursed out an NPR reporter on Jan. 24, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo uttered seven words that sum up the sham impeachment trial of President Donald Trump: ...

Taiwan’s Ing-wen walks a tightrope

18 Jan 2020

A dramatic election that produced a stunning victory for democracy got too little attention here last weekend, as Americans focused on Iran and impeachment. In a blow to Beijing, Taiwan’s...

Trudy Rubin

Rubin is a foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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