RealClearWorld Week of August 4, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 4

The Time to Prevent Shortfalls in Critical Materials Is Now

Doug Irving RAND

China’s Economy Is Trapped in a Doom Loop

Gordon Chang National Security Journal

The Middle East’s New Intermediaries

Alhasan & Hokayem Foreign Affairs

The Betrayal of the Innocents by Ted Cruz Christians

George O'Neill Jr. TAC

Dear President Trump: ‘Don’t Let My Little Brother Die Like This’

Ilay David NYP

The Explosive Fight Over China’s New Embassy in the UK

Damian Grammaticas BBC

Tuesday, August 5

Ukraine: Russians Understand ‘The Longer Term'

Kevin Myers Brussels Signal

JPMorgan’s Ukraine War Base Case Scenario

Stephen Bryen Asia Times

Israel Is Destroying It’s Own Reputation

Colin Pascal The Hill

The Photo From Gaza That Misled the World

Cory Franklin Spiked

Sanctions on Brazil Judge Are Wins for Free Speech, Justice

Chris Pavlovski RCP

The Houthis Are Breaking Into the Drug Trade

Ecanow & Toomey The National Interest

What Is Western Civilization?

Ryan Hammill and Pavlos Papadopoulos American Mind

Wednesday, August 6

How India-U.S. Trade Talks Collapsed

Kumar Hunnicutt and Ahmed Reuters

NATO's Dutch Disease

Benjamin Day & Roderick Parkes Foreign Policy Research Institute

Recognizing Palestine Shows ‘Desperate Weakness’

Conrad Black Brussels Signal

How the Global South Is Charting Its Own Path

Jeffery A. Tobin The National Interest

Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild?

Joseph Rodgers et al. CSIS

The Shock, Awe and Terror of Hiroshima

James Woudhuysen Spiked

The U.S. and Japan 80 Years After Hiroshima

Riley Callanan GZero Media

Thursday, August 7

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Take Over the Entire Gaza Strip

Dov Lieber WSJ

What Makes Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Stand Apart

Abdallah Fayyad Vox

Syria's Islamist Regime Is Testing the West's Conscience

Hadeel Oueis Newsweek

The Rise of Strategic Non-Alignment

Imran Khalid The Hill

Ishiba’s Trump Trade Pact Fuels ‘Unequal Treaty’ Firestorm

Tobias Harris AT

America and China’s Futile Trade War

Leon Hadar The National Interest

Hiroshima and the End of WWII, 80 Years Later

Oliver O'Donovan Providence