RealClearWorld Week of April 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 7
The Geopolitics of Tariffs
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Trump and the Economics of Statecraft
Francis P. Sempa RealClearWorld
Trade Deficits Do Not Make a Country Poorer
Noah Smith Substack
Beijing Kills Hope for Any U.S.-China Grand Trade Bargain
Nigel Green Asia Times
China Is Wary of American Intentions
Rana Mitter Spectator World
Trump Is Breaking China’s Foothold in the Americas
Arturo McFields The Hill
The Forever War in Gaza
Amos Harel Foreign Affairs
What Happens if Iran Attacks?
Michael Rubin 19FortyFive
Poland Prepares for Direct War With Russia
Janusz Bugajski Eurasia Daily Monitor
Crossing the Anti-Democratic Rubicon in Europe
Max Primorac Heritage Foundation
Liberalism's Bleak Future?
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Le Pen Conviction Proves Trump Right
Tim Rosenberger Newsweek
Europe Locked in Past Strategies
Tom Vandendriessche Brussels Signal
The End of European Fecklessness?
Alina Polyakova CEPA
How Merz Dug His Own Political Grave
Richard J. Schenk The European Conservative


Tuesday, April 8
Trump Is Tearing up the Old World Order – As Promised
Irwin Stelzer Spectator
Tariffs Will Awaken the American Dream
Edward Luttwak UnHerd
Netanyahu Strikes Out in DC Meeting With Trump
Lazar Berman Times of Israel
Trump Must Solve the Israel-Turkey-Iran Contest
Michael Doran Tablet
How Trump’s Trade War Could Crash Putin’s Economy
Jason Corcoran TMT
EU Agonizes Over Using Its Trade ‘Bazooka’
Gijs Weizman and Coi Politico EU
China Seeks Allies in U.S. Trade War
Yong Jian Asia Times
China Can't Win a Trade War Against the U.S.
Gordon G. Chang Newsweek
Protectionism Reborn: Trump’s Response to China
Hasim Turker Geopolitical Monitor
Mexico Emerges With an Edge Over Asia
Harrup & Pérez Wall Street Journal
Kemi Badenoch Is UK's Final Hope for Free Speech
Oliver Dean CapX
Macron Should Pardon Le Pen
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
The IRGC’s Oil Empire
Alex Winston Jerusalem Post
The Houthis’ Road to Nowhere
Ari Heistein The National Interest
Myanmar’s Military Prioritizes Its Own Survival
Bill Hayton Chatham House


Wednesday, April 9
Neither U.S. nor China Ready for This Trade War
William Pesek Asia Times
How Trump Is Reshaping the Global Economy
Thomas Kolbe European Conservative
China Would Be Foolish to Invade Taiwan Now
Michael Peck 19FortyFive
Russia — Zero Tariffs Bring Zero Relief
Alexander Kolyandr CEPA
What’s at Stake in the Blame Game Over Ukraine
M. E. Sarotte Foreign Affairs
Splitting Russia From China Is Possible
Mark Episkopos The American Conservative
Iran Ready to 'Seal a Deal' With U.S.
Amir Daftari Newsweek
Is Iran Sending Missiles to Militias in Iraq?
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
How the Houthis Outsmarted Washington
Ramon Marks The National Interest
Countries Say White House Hasn’t Responded to Tariffs
Ari Hawkins et al. Politico
South Korea Eyes ‘Big’ Trade Deal After Trump Call
Soo-hyang Choi Bloomberg
Trump Works a Political Miracle in Downing Street
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
Under Trump, the Darien Gap Has Been Left Empty
Janetsky and Delacroix AP
India’s Strategic Reckoning
Hely Desai War on the Rocks
Hindu Theologies Drove India’s Nuclear Decision Making
Bill Drexel Providence


Thursday, April 10
America Just Entered Its Post-Globalization Era
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Trump Is Right To Take On the Free-Trade Fundamentalists
Joel Kotkin Spiked
Trump on Trade Could Be Biden on the Border
Kyle Moran RealClearPolitics
Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
Trump Goaded China Into a Bad Position
Scott Bessent White House
Underestimating China
Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi Foreign Affairs
European Good Life Threatened by Trump
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
Could U.S.-China Trade War Turn Violent, and When?
Jake Werner Res Statecraft
Trump Is Taking the Monroe Doctrine Global
Brahma Chellaney The Hill
Trump Surprises the Hawks on Iran
Eldar Mamedov The American Conservative
Tehran’s Berlin Wall Moment Unfolds in Syria and Lebanon
Abdullah Hayek TNI
CPAC for Iranians in Exile
Schlapp Mark Wallace & Kaplan Jerusalem Post
Erdoğan’s Last Great Gamble
Ryan Gingeras War on the Rocks
For Africa’s Stability, Dialogue Is the Only Way Forward
William Ruto Newsweek
Myanmar’s Junta Weaponizes Quake Disaster
Samady Ou Asia Times


Friday, April 11
War With China Is Much Bigger Than Trade
Tostevin and Kirsten Tatlow Newsweek
Everyone Will Suffer a U.S.-China Trade War
Jason Douglas et al. Wall Street Journal
Globalization No Longer Works and U.S. Smashed It
Sherelle Jacobs The Telegraph
Economic Fallout and Strategic Realignment
Lakhvinder Singh Asia Times
Will the EU Crumble Under Trump’s Tariffs?
Gavin Mortimer Spectator World
The Zeitenwende Is Real This Time
M. Kimmage and S. David-Wilp Foreign Affairs
European Rearmament: Shuffling Fake Money Around?
Ian Proud RS
Algeria and France, Unhappy Together
James Durso RealClearWorld
Trump Is Not Joe Biden — Putin Should Take Note
Sen. Rick Scott The Hill
What Donald Trump Needs To Tell Tehran
Amotz Asa-El Jerusalem Post
The Slow Disintegration of Canada
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
Why Main Street Supports Trump’s China Tariffs
Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd
The Global Order of Free Rides
Bruno Meyerhof Salama Law & Liberty
Study a Forgotten War to Glimpse the Pacific Future
James Holmes TNI
Europe’s Undersea Infrastructure Is Vulnerable
Lesia Ogryzko & Alberto Rizzi ECFR
Saturday, April 12
The Global Trade Realignment is Coming
Nicholas Phillips Common Place
35 Year-Old ‘New World Order’ Is Being Demolished
Gordon Brown The Guardian
Europeans Can Defend Themselves–And Ukraine
Sama Noori RealClearWorld
Merz’s Coalition Treaty Is an Empty, Promise-Free Shell
Katja Hoyer Spectator World
Congress Hates Trade Wars—but Doesn’t Mind Real Wars
Daniel DePetris TAC
Trump’s New Talks With Iran Could End In a Deal — Or a War
Joshua Keating Vox
Iran’s Deterrence Dilemma
John Allen Gay The National Interest
The Case for a “Trump to Tehran” Strategy
Comfort Ero Foreign Affairs
The Taiwan Strait Crisis and Its Ripple Effects in Korea
Jihoon Yu RealClearWorld
How South Korea’s Crisis Could Shake the World
James Woudhuysen Spiked
Why China Won’t Give In to Trump
Michael Schuman The Atlantic
Trump's Tariffs Protect U.S. Workers From China
Sen. Jim Banks Newsweek
What Trump Gets and Doesn’t Get in Tariff Negotiations
J.P. Singh The Hill
Can Europe Buy All Its Energy From the USA?
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
Is This the End of Erdoğan?
Christopher de Bellaigue UnHerd
Note to CCP, Regimes Don’t Have the Rights of Nations
John Fitzgerald ASPI
The Sahel: Emerging Center of Global Islamism
Nils A. Haug Gatestone Institute


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