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1 month ago | 
thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com | Frank Lavin
We are a data driven news commentary podcast with Global Reach, serving listeners in more than 65 countries. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective, featuring newsmakers, thought leaders and authors as guests. Your hostJim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Frank Lavin
President Trump is nothing if not audacious, even brazen, in charting a course distinct from his presidential predecessors. Yet certain aspects of his policies and behavior resonate with a historical archetype, even if not American: the Chinese emperor. As with the European monarchs or the Roman emperors, the success of the Chinese emperors varied considerably, with some reigning over peace and prosperity and some seeming to preside over - or even instigate - tumult and war.
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Mar 23, 2025 | 
ecipe.org | Frank Lavin
With increased U.S. pressure on Ukraine, it is useful to look to history for policy guideposts. I served in the Reagan White House as he worked to push back against Moscow, and Reagan viewed alliance relationships as a key component of U.S. international reach and security. Although Donald Trump has broken sharply with that U.S. foreign policy tradition, this change might empower Europe rather than diminish it, if Europe seizes the moment.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Frank Lavin
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
nationalreview.com | Frank Lavin
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
forbes.com | Frank Lavin
No U.S. President has been tougher on China than Donald Trump, at least rhetorically. As he regularly demonstrated during the presidential campaign, Trump has blamed China for problems from Covid, to economic dislocation, to turning a blind eye to fentanyl production in Mexico, promoting China as a devil figure in the political lexicon. Notably, however, Trump does not offer geopolitical criticism of China. No mention of the South China Sea.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
forbes.com | Frank Lavin
The political leader most likely to undermine the second Trump administration is Donald Trump himself. His role as a candidate, including his stagecraft, rhetoric, and theatrics is often at variance with, or even harmful to, the role he must play to be a successful president.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Frank Lavin
Although the precise details of the arrangement have not been made public, there has been considerable media coverage of North Korea’s dispatch of combat troops to Russia to support Vladimir Putin’s offensive in Ukraine. Less well-covered is the story of how South Korea is responding and how it is working with Ukraine. Let’s look at both countries’ involvement in this out-of-area war.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Frank Lavin
President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to establish his cabinet and set an active pace for his new administration. His first term foreign policy was marked by several moves at variance with long-established U.S. foreign policy positions, such as publicly denigrating NATO and attaching tariffs to Chinese (and other) exports and we should assume that during this second term he will also embrace some contrarian views.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Daniel DePetris |Leon Mangasarian |Gavin Mortimer |Frank Lavin
What on earth is Donald Trump thinking? That’s what many realists and restrainers inside and out of Washington are asking themselves after news broke late last night that Marco Rubio, the senior senator from Florida, is set to be tapped as secretary of state in the next administration. The reactions haven’t been uniformly bad, mind you. Other candidates rumored to be under consideration, such as Vivek Ramaswamy, caused many in the US foreign policy elite to wretch in fear.
