RealClearWorld Week of June 9, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 9

Will Trump Choose Deal or Discord With China?

Jake Werner Responsible Statecraft

What’s Behind China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan

Estelle Huang ECFR

Trump’s Middle East Doctrine Shifts to LA Crisis

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post

The Hole in Mexico’s Security Strategy

Will Freeman Foreign Affairs

Can Merz Have an Effective Foreign Policy?

John Kampfner Politico EU

Germany Can’t Avoid Conscription for Ever

Lisa Haseldine Spectator World

Keir Starmer Is Being Duped by the EU

Brian Monteith CapX

Can Kemi Badenoch Still Lead the Tories?

Azeem Ibrahim The National Interest

Tuesday, June 10

U.S.-China: What’s Really at Stake in London

Nigel Green Asia Times

For Poland, There Is No Plan B

Eugeniusz Smolar The National Interest

Tusk Puts Anti-Democratic Toolbox To Use After Loss

Artur Ciechanowicz TEC

Global Economy on Track for Worst Decade Since 1960s

Anna Cooban CNN

There’s No Such Thing as the ‘Global Majority’

Benedict Spence Spiked

A Smaller NSC Staff Is Actually a Good Thing

Dov S. Zakheim The Hill

China’s Advance in Colombia

Evan Ellis Center for Strategic and International Studies

Wednesday, June 11

How Global Governance Can Survive

Cha Hamre and Ikenberry Foreign Affairs

China’s Lock on Rare Earths Dictated Path Toward Trade Truce

Emont & Bade WSJ

Will the LA Immigration Riots Reach Europe?

Gavin Mortimer Spectator World

A Final Curtain on the ‘Axis of Resistance’?

Elfadil Ibrahim Responsible Statecraft

Fragmented Power in Tehran

Fariba Parsa RealClearDefense

Greeks Feel They Have No One To Vote For

Nektaria Stamouli Politico EU

U.S. Military Spending Is Out of Control

Dan Grazier The Hill

Thursday, June 12

The Art of Trump’s Trade Deal With China

Miranda Devine New York Post

Will Europe Fragment or Unify Without the U.S.

Ali Mammadov War on the Rocks

Merz Abandoned Principle for Political Expediency

Sabine Beppler-Spahl TEC

Ukraine’s Drone Victory Is a Win for the US, Too

Voyger & Shtaltovna TNI

Wilders vs the Rest

Derk Jan Eppink Brussels Signal

Western Pols Should Stop Meddling in Georgia

Ian Proud The American Conservative

Georgia Shifts Eastward Amid Strained Western Ties

Khatia Shamanauri EDM

Friday, June 13

Iran Fires 100+ Missiles at Israel After Airstrikes

Al-Monitor

Why Israel Finally Attacked Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

David Horovitz Times of Israel