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DeSantis' China Hardliners
The fact that he is listening to them suggests that DeSantis will be relying on hostility to China to serve as the foundation of his foreign policy as a…
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Daniel Larison
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The American Way of Dodging Accountability
This is not new and it is not unique to the U.S.-China relationship.
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Daniel Larison
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May 2023
DeSantis' Warped Understanding of the Monroe Doctrine
Our neighbors are free to have close relations with other countries, including major powers that Washington doesn’t like.
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Daniel Larison
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U.S. China Containment Policy Is Self-Defeating
In all ten countries in Southeast Asia, China’s overall influence is greater than it was in 2018.
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Daniel Larison
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The Brain-Dead U.S. Sanctions Policies in Venezuela and Syria
In both Venezuela and Syria, the U.S. keeps waging economic wars that everyone in the vicinity knows to be useless and purely destructive.
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Daniel Larison
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The Insanity of Broad Sanctions
The collective punishment that broad sanctions inflict is never unintended.
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Daniel Larison
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So Much for That 'Thaw' with China
Biden would like to get credit for trying to repair deteriorating relations with China, but he isn’t prepared to do anything that would give hawkish…
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Daniel Larison
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Breaking With an Outdated Status Quo
There is no good reason why wealthy European allies shouldn’t shoulder more responsibility, and the only way that the U.S. can goad them into doing that…
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Daniel Larison
4
Bernard-Henri Lévy's Latest Silly Intervention
Lévy’s argument is characteristically unserious and ill-informed.
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Daniel Larison
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Beware of the Reagan Hagiographers
His overall foreign policy record is not as impressive or as world-changing as his fans have made it out to be
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Daniel Larison
3
Sanctions Impede Diplomacy (Again)
Sanctions naturally provoke animosity and resistance, and the government affected by them tends to become even less cooperative than before.
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Daniel Larison
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Great Power Rivalry Makes Us Stupid
Framing U.S. foreign policy in Asia in terms of zero-sum rivalry with China encourages silly overreactions to minor problems.
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Daniel Larison
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