Natalie Caloca

2 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Zongyuan Liu |Sheila Smith |Natalie Caloca |Adam Posen

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with,” U.S. President Donald Trump famously tweeted in 2018, “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” This week, when the Trump administration imposed tariffs of more than 100 percent on U.S. imports from China, setting off a new and even more dangerous trade war, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a similar justification: “I think it was a big mistake, this Chinese...

2 months ago | cfr.org | Natalie Caloca

Rehearsals and drills: It was a turbulent start to 2025, with the PRC’s first combat patrol of the year around Taiwan taking place on January 2. The combat patrol involved twenty-two military aircraft—eighteen of which crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait during the exercise. More From Our Experts On January 8, Taiwan’s navy carried out its own three-day military drill.

Oct 2, 2024 | factcheck.afp.com | Natalie Caloca

"The United Nations Pact for the Future represents an unconstitutional effort to establish a treaty that undermines the sovereignty of the United States by allowing international organizations to declare a global state of emergency without our consent. This is detrimental not only to the U.S. but also to the entire world," says a September 24, 2024 Instagram post from Sherri Tenpenny, an anti-vaccine activist whom AFP has previously fact-checked.

Sep 19, 2024 | cfr.org | Paul B. Stares |Natalie Caloca

Deadly conflicts in the Gaza Strip, Ukraine, Sudan, and several other regions continue to rage as the UN General Assembly prepares for its seventy-ninth round of meetings this September. These and other security challenges will weigh heavily on world leaders when they meet on September 22 and 23 for the Summit of the Future, billed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to revive multilateral cooperation.

Aug 1, 2024 | cfr.org | Natalie Caloca

Australia, a treaty ally of the United States, published a comprehensive National Defence Strategy (NDS) in April 2024. The NDS delineates the country’s plans to expand its role in Indo-Pacific security, emphasizing multilateral collaboration, the development of a proactive and integrated military, and substantial increases to the defense budget.