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President Donald Trump’s decision to host Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House later this week marks a historic moment in Middle Eastern diplomacy and signals a dramatic reset in U.S.
The recent meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea — their first face-to-face encounter since 2019 — reignited talk of a revived “G2” model, where the United States
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President Donald Trump’s first summit with Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s historic new prime minister, marks a pivotal moment for the future of U.S.–Japan relations, Indo-Pacific stability, and the political legacy of both leaders.
The highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting, scheduled for October 30, 2025, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in South Korea, is poised to be a significant event for global
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The European Union’s pledge to pursue a “sovereign digital transition” masks a fundamental tension within its two most influential members — France and Germany — over what sovereignty in the digital age
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Washington is once again tempted by an old illusion: that Pakistan can act as a dependable partner in South Asia. President Donald Trump, fresh from boasting of brokering peace after the latest
In a moment thick with symbolism and political theater, U.S. President Donald Trump stood before Israel’s Knesset on Monday and proclaimed what he called “the historic dawn of the new Middle East.”