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by | Mar 22, 2023

Jessica Chen Weiss, who served on the Biden State Department’s Policy Planning Staff until last July, has once again taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs to assure us that “[f]ears that China will soon invade Taiwan are overblown,” and…

by | Mar 10, 2023

President Joe Biden’s diplomacy in the Middle East is an exercise in how to appease and empower a hardline antagonist. Five months ago, Biden claimed that U.S. diplomacy prevented an outbreak of violence between Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia, and Israel….

by | Feb 14, 2023

It will come as a surprise to no one: The Left hates The American Spectator. A surprise to all: The Left has created a corrupt corporate conglomerate, both public and private, to secretly defund this magazine and other conservative websites….

by | Feb 14, 2023

U.S. diplomats in Russia released on Monday a lengthy message to Americans instructing them to leave Russia if there and to not travel to the country. Do they know something we do not? Or do the Americans still in Russia…

by | Jan 26, 2023

Paul Bedard relays a hilarious story Mike Pompeo apparently tells in his book.  As secretary of state, Pompeo made a request to the department’s inspector general. “I told them that my wife flies to foreign countries to give speeches for…

by | Oct 29, 2022

Secretary of State Antony Blinken honored “international religious freedom day” last week. “The United States joins the international community in marking the 24th occasion of International Religious Freedom Day,” he said. “Freedom of religion or belief is a founding principle…

by | Aug 19, 2022

The late, great Jeane Kirkpatrick famously addressed the Republican National Convention in 1984 with a memorable description of the Democratic Party’s approach to foreign policy issues: “They always blame America first.” And they did this even when they were in…

by | Jun 4, 2022

It should be no surprise that communist states persecute religious believers. Whether China, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, or Vietnam — thankfully, the infamous Evil Empire has shrunk over the last three decades — the people’s purported representatives don’t want the…

by | Dec 11, 2021

In November, Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the State Department’s list of countries hostile to religious freedom. The move flabbergasted religious freedom advocates, including members of the U.S. government’s own Commission on International Religious Freedom. That commission…

by | Nov 28, 2021

President Joe Biden has adopted begging as a new diplomatic strategy. Oil prices are high, filling Saudi coffers and offering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a chance to add another yacht, French chalet, or even Rembrandt — presumably a real one,…

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