Marc Champion
International Affairs Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
Marc Champion is a columnist writing on international affairs at Bloomberg. All views are my own. Re-Tweets are not endorsements.
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taipeitimes.com | Marc Champion
By Marc Champion / Bloomberg Opinion Maybe it is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who should be writing books about the art of negotiation. For a while, it looked as though he had made a huge miscalculation by highlighting the opportunities available to allies in exploiting his nation’s natural resources. The idea was to interest the famously transactional US President Donald Trump in Ukraine’s defense, and it seemed a clever ruse at the time.
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post-gazette.com | Marc Champion
How do you know a former KGB agent is “tapping you along”? That’s easy. Don’t pretend they aren’t. It took barely 48 hours for the Kremlin to answer Donald Trump’s weekend threat to dial up sanctions unless Russia accepts his deal to stop the war in Ukraine. First came a dose of Dirty Harry-style “make my day,” as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed two US peace proposals. Then came a tease, in the form of another mini-ceasefire offer, to muddy the waters.
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independent.ie | Marc Champion
For a while, it looked as though he’d made a huge miscalculation by highlighting the opportunities available to allies in exploiting his nation’s natural resources. The idea was to interest the famously transactional Donald Trump in Ukraine’s defence, and it seemed a clever ruse at the time. In the event, it almost blew up a military relationship critical to Ukraine’s survival, but the deal as now at least partially agreed looks like a good save.
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independent.ie | Marc Champion
Marc Champion: Maybe Volodymyr Zelensky, not Donald Trump, should be writing ‘Art of the Deal’ Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky speak in the Vatican. Photo: APFor a while, it looked as though Volodymyr Zelensky had made a huge miscalculation by highlighting the opportunities available to allies in exploiting his nation’s natural resources. The idea was to interest the famously transactional Donald Trump in Ukraine’s defence, and it seemed a clever ruse at the time.
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shorturl.at | Marc Champion
I was in Sapanta on Romania’s northern border with Ukraine 35 years ago, helping to birth a calf in the middle of the night with the help of a thick metal chain. As the newborn staggered up onto its shaky legs at around 3 a.m., my host Ion “Popic” Pop declared excitedly that: “It’s a democrat!” You had to be there, and at that time, to understand why this made any kind of sense.
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Romanians will likely again lurch far right in Sunday's election re-rerun. Why? More than 30 years of graft and missed opportunities that began with the 1989 revolution. My column, from the village of Sapanta, for Bloomberg @opinion https://t.co/2WtrF4RMB0
Ukraine's negotiators seem to have turned Trump's neocolonial minerals deal into something reasonable, and without a fatal bustup. My column for Bloomberg @opinion https://t.co/qNZj0yvERi hich wa
Trump worries he's getting "tapped along" by #Putin in #Ukraine. Yes he is, and no he doesn't need to be. My column for Bloomberg @opinion https://t.co/6emObRFt1T via @opinion
