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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Steven Levitsky |Michael Froman |Jason Furman |Daniel Rosen
In early February, as he flew in Air Force One above the body of water he’d recently renamed the Gulf of America, President Donald Trump declared that he would levy tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum. Two weeks later, he issued a presidential memorandum laying out new guidance for screening investment from Chinese firms in the United States and U.S. firms into China.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Steven Levitsky |Michael Froman |Jason Furman |Daniel Rosen
In early February, as he flew in Air Force One above the body of water he’d recently renamed the Gulf of America, President Donald Trump declared that he would levy tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum. Two weeks later, he issued a presidential memorandum laying out new guidance for screening investment from Chinese firms in the United States and U.S. firms into China.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Froman |Linda Robinson |Thomas J. Bollyky |Yanzhong Huang
Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves will cede Washington’s longstanding leadership role to Beijing. American power and prestige, they charge, will wane, and China’s will grow. The reality is worse.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Oscar Berry |Michael Froman |Stacie L. Pettyjohn |Edward Alden
For more than 80 years, a cornerstone of the United States’ military strength has been its unparalleled ability to project power through the air. Washington has the most sophisticated fleet of combat aircraft in the world. Because these planes can be refueled by the country’s many tankers, they have global reach. From domestic bases, stealthy bombers can fly through heavily defended airspace unmolested and destroy multiple targets in one mission.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Michael A. McFaul |Daniel DePetris |Michael Froman
While campaigning for president, candidate Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in one day. Since taking office, however, it has become obvious that the president’s focus is not on peacemaking, but rather on building his relationship with and making deals to suit Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. I served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow a decade ago and lived there for years before, so I know from firsthand experience that Putin cannot be trusted.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | James Lindsay |Michael Froman |Wolfgang Ischinger |Jared Dunnmon
The disastrous meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on February 28 has led to a stark moment of truth for the Western alliance. In the fallout with Zelensky and the end of U.S. support for the war effort, the Trump administration has not only shaken Ukraine. It has also called into question some of the bedrock assumptions that have undergirded the transatlantic relationship since World War II.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | James Lindsay |Michael Froman |Wolfgang Ischinger |Steven Levitsky
The disastrous meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on February 28 has led to a stark moment of truth for the Western alliance. In the fallout with Zelensky and the end of U.S. support for the war effort, the Trump administration has not only shaken Ukraine. It has also called into question some of the bedrock assumptions that have undergirded the transatlantic relationship since World War II.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Daniel DePetris |Michael Froman |Tara Sonenshine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy entered the White House today hoping to sign a deal with President Donald Trump on Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as part of efforts to keep the U.S. invested in Ukraine’s future as it contemplates making a peace deal with Russia. What Zelenskyy got instead was a rhetorical buzz saw from Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
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2 months ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Froman |David Sacks |Mick Ryan |Emma Ashford
Very few people predicted that a long, high-intensity war in Europe was possible in the twenty-first century. But for three bloody years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered exactly that. Hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have died in the fighting. Many more have been injured. Entire towns have been reduced to ruin or cut apart by trenches, in a grim callback to World War I. Now, the war in Ukraine has reached an apparent stasis.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Froman |Erik Jones |Matthias Matthijs |Camille Grand
Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, has long nursed well-known grievances about the European Union. He has pointed to the large bilateral trade deficit between the United States and the EU—about $131 billion in 2022 and $208 billion in 2023—as proof that the Europeans are not playing by the rules and are taking advantage of American naivety.
