RealClearWorld Week of May 11, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 11
Xi’s China: Dazzling Tech, Military, and an Economic Mess
Brian Spegele WSJ
Trump-Xi: U.S. Uncertainty More Than China Ambition
James Borton Asia Times
Iran’s Bluff: Playing a Weak Hand Like a Winner
Haggai Carmon Times of Israel
The Week the New Global Reality Showed Itself
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Tide Is Turning in Ukraine
Igor Desyatnikov Geopolitical Monitor
Winners and Losers of the Iran Energy Shock
Benjamin H. Bradlow Foreign Affairs
Taiwan Is Looming Over Trump and Xi Summit
Michael Swaine Responsible Statecraft
China’s Theft of American AI Tech Is More Brazen
Ian Williams Spectator
A Revolt Against the Status Quo in UK
The Guardian
Javier Milei’s Libertarianism Is Falling Apart
Nick Burns UnHerd
Why the European Right Keeps Rising
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
The ‘10 Ways Europe Can Free Itself’ From U.S. Military
Joe Barnes The Telegraph
Birth Tourism in the U.S. Could Be on Borrowed Time
Billal Rahman Newsweek
Azerbaijan’s Cultural Genocide of Christian Amenia
Stephan Pechdimaldji CP
Depopulation Won’t Save the Planet
Lipton Matthews American Greatness


Tuesday, May 12
This Trump-Xi Summit Will Actually Matter
Hal Brands Bloomberg
The Illusion of Chinese Strength
Sasha Gong American Greatness
China Is Squandering a Golden Opportunity
Shambaugh and Jackson Foreign Affairs
U.S. Must Open the Strait of Hormuz by Force
Mark Montgomery New York Post
In Double Trouble: Iran’s Oil Crisis
Mike Evans Jerusalem Post
How Central Asia Became Russia’s Quiet Economic Lifeline
Steven Hendrix RCW
Things Are Not Going So Well for Russia
Dimitar Bechev Aljazeera
Zelensky and Ukraine Are in a World of Trouble
Ted Snider The American Conservative
Merz’s Comeback Tour Descends Into Shambles
James Angelos Politico EU
Starmer Will Not Quit Without Leadership Challenge
Elgot and Crerar The Guaridan
Who Could Replace Starmer
Telegraph The Telegraph
Beijing Summit Preview Edition
Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi Common Place
Another Crack in the Tariff Wall
William Alan Reinsch CSIS
Red Diaper Tourism
Roger D. McGrath Chronicles
The Problem With Liberal Empire
Christopher Coyne Law & Liberty


Wednesday, May 13
Drills, Deals, and Doubts in the Pacific
Colin Demarest Axios
This Should Be Trump’s Last Meeting With Xi
Bradley A. Thayer AFA
America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China
Henrietta Levin Foreign Affairs
Will Xi Free Lai?
Hugh Hewitt Fox News
Trump Has Historic AI Opportunity in Beijing
Brendan Steinhauser RealClearPolitics
How Will Trump and Xi Tangle Over Taiwan?
The Free Press
The World Misses British Political Wisdom
Conrad Black Brussels Signal
A Lesson From UK PM Keir Starmer’s Humiliating Slide
Brendan O'Neill NY Post
Why the U.S. and Iran Are Losing Confidence in Pakistan
Natiq Malikzada TNI
Saudi Arabia’s Strange War: Appease Iran, Rebuff Israel
Hussain Abdul-Hussain TOI
Iran’s Internal Crackdown Is Only Deepening
Babak Dehghanpisheh NBC News
CIA Escalates Secret War on Cartels
Bertrand Cohen Perez & Torres CNN
American Economy Leaves Europe Behind
Sven R. Larson The European Conservative
Africa’s Richest Man Plans New Mombasa Oil Refinery
Shola Lawal Aljazeera
The Power of Market Economics in Spaceflight
Andreas Tögel American Greatness


Thursday, May 14
Trump and Xi’s Spheres of Ignorance
Newsweek Editors
Trump Wants Détente. Xi Wants Taiwan.
Niall Ferguson The Free Press
Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ Unravels
Allegra Mendelson The Telegraph
Trump Should Be More Ambitious With China
Evan Sankey The American Conservative
Why Trump Has Not Finished the Job in Iran
The Crotty Farm Report
Trump’s Best Chance To Choke Off Iran’s Terror Cash
Dezenski & Meizlish NY Post
Don’t Ask China for Help With Hormuz
Sarah Dimichino RealClearWorld
The Iran War Isn't About U.S. Decline, But China Exposed
Lee Smith Tablet
Is Russia Ready To Negotiate Over Ukraine Again?
Thomas Graham National Interest
Ukraine’s Conscription Crisis Is Getting Increasingly Bloody
Branko Marcetic RS
Russians No Longer Believe Putin’s War Propaganda
Owen Matthews Spectator
How Farage Made It Through the Danger Zone
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
Washington Is Ceding the Digital World
Kristin Wooster RealClearWorld
Why the U.S.-China Meetings Matter for the Middle East
Seth Frantzman JPost
The Epicenter of Terrorism Is Shifting to Africa
Nadine Maenza Providence


Friday, May 15
Why Xi Invoked the Thucydides Trap
Aaron Maclean The Free Press
Trump’s China Trip Underscores How Power Has Shifted
Charlie Campbell Time
In Beijing, Trump Easily Holds the Winning Hand
Nick Snyder The Hill
Trump Needs a Deal, but Xi Needs It More
Francis Pike Spectator World
After the Ayatollah
Jason Greenblatt Tablet
The Value of the U.S. “Foreign Policy of Restraint”
Lora Karch Fair Observer
Israel’s ‘Abrahamic NATO’
Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez Washington Examiner
Lebanon is Walking a Thin Line With Israel Talks
Faysal Itani and Dania Arayssi WOTR
Israel’s Election Season Could Become Its Ugliest Yet
Yaakov Katz Jerusalem Post
What UK & Hungary Elections Mean for U.S. Conservatives
Colin Dueck TNI
The Putsch To Oust Starmer Is Taking Shape
Bloom Blewett and Dawson Politico EU
Emperors Lost in Their Labyrinths
Karl Pfefferkorn Brussels Signal
Trump and Xi Score Own Wins From China Summit
John Feng Newsweek
China’s Economy Is Entering Another Quarter of K-Shaped Growth
Bloomberg
Iran War Threatens Gulf Investment Boom in Central Asia
James Durso OilPrice
Saturday, May 16
A ‘Decent Peace’ at the Trump-Xi Summit
Michael Froman Council on Foreign Relations
Trump Keeps His Friends Close, But China Closer
Mike Watson Free Beacon
Keep Taiwan’s Seat at the Pacific Table
Andrew J. Harding RealClearWorld
Did China Take the Deal?
Ken Timmerman American Greatness
The Iran Stalemate
Niall Ferguson Substack
Does Iran Hold All the Cards in the Strait of Hormuz?
Paul Saunders TNI
Iran Tells Its Diaspora To Die for the Country
Simone Chiusa Times of Israel
The Postwar UAE and the Remaking of Gulf Politics
Cinzia Bianco ECFR
Cuba Braces As Trump Doubles Down
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
Venezuela Is Proving a Rare Successful Intervention
José Chalhoub RealClearWorld
The French Right’s Long Road to Power
Colin Dueck The National Interest
Reform’s Radical Agenda: Give the Voters What They Want
Frank Haviland TEC
Can Pakistan Mediate While Opening Trade Routes to Tehran?
Giorgio Cafiero RS
Pakistan’s Military Diplomacy Comes of Age
Joe Buccino RealClearWorld
Sayyed Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood
Steven Stalinsky MEMRI
America Has a Serious Chinese Spying Problem
Ian Williams Spectator
Washington Isn't Prepared for Alberta's Referendum
Andrew Latham The Hill



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