RealClearWorld Week of October 20, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 20

This Is China vs. the World, Not a U.S. vs. China Problem

Scott Bessent CNBC

China’s New Five Year Plan

Nick Marsh CNN

The Miseducation of Xi Jinping

Orville Schell Foreign Affairs

Palestine Needs a New Model for Statehood

William Keenan Times of Israel

Maduro's Rubio Problem

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos The American Conservative

Is the U.S. Navy Unprepared? Yes and No.

Steven Wills The National Interest

What Happened to the Arsenal of Democracy?

Ralph L. DeFalco III Law & Liberty

Tuesday, October 21

Countering Cartels and Communists in the Americas

Daniel McCarthy Chronicles

If Ukraine Falls, It Won’t Just Be Donald Trump’s Fault

The Independent

Real Plunder of Europe's Crown Jewels Was an Inside Job

Elle Purnell Federalist

After Israel’s Strike on Qatar, a U.S. Strategic Shift

A. Alley and A. Abdulla The Hill

Bolivia Takes a Right Turn; Will Its Neighbors Follow?

Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media

The Tragedy of Bolivian Socialism

Juan David Rojas Compact

The U.S. Cannot Rely on China for Rare-Earths

Rich Lowry New York Post

Wednesday, October 22

Australia-U.S.: Hard Lessons in Soft Power

Kurniawan Arif Maspul Geopolitical Monitor

Taiwan Is Not for Sale

Marvin Park and David Sacks Foreign Affairs

Rebuilding Gaza

Shelly Culbertson Kobi Ruthenberg and Rob Lane Newsweek

The DIY Ally: Israel’s Victory Is America’s Too

Gil Troy Jerusalem Post

Can Trump Contain Israel’s Hard Right?

Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic

What Takaichi’s Arrival Means for Japan

Tobias Harris Asia Times

Countering Russian Hybrid Warfare in Africa

Will Brown ECFR

Thursday, October 23

How Europe Is Still Fueling Russia’s War Machine

Ilan Berman The National Interest

New Sanctions and Weapons Will Not Stop Russia

Christopher Chivvis The Guardian

Taiwan in the Shadow of War

Charlie Campbell Time

The U.S. Navy Is in Crisis

Andrew Latham National Security Journal

Trial by Fire for Japan’s New PM

Shihoko Goto Foreign Policy Research Institute

Forget the World Wars When Thinking About Foreign Policy

Michael Lind UnHerd

Islamist Extremists Have Taken Mali to the Brink

Rachel Chason Washington Post