To understand what is actually at stake in Beijing this week, and in New Delhi simultaneously, American readers need to understand how the United States and China arrived here. That history is not long, but Americans are not well-served by how it is usually told.
The US Ambassador to Israel confirmed something Tuesday that has been circulating in intelligence circles for weeks and is now on the record: Israel deployed Iron Dome air defense batteries and IDF personnel to operate them to the United Arab Emirates during the Iran war.
One Republican state senator’s resistance to direct presidential pressure held a majority-Black congressional district in place today.
