Outside the Beltway

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

Presidents Trump and Xi have agree to a “90 day cease fire” on new tariffs. This means that Trump will not raise tariffs on Chinese imports that were scheduled to take effect on January 1st of next year. The tariffs will go into effect if the two countries cannot reach an agreement within that 90 day time frame.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

The date and location of the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un has been set, but there’s as much chance of failure as their is hope for success.

The meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In was historic, but many questions and caveats remain.

The Kim regime has announced the end, for now, of its nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs. To understand why they made this concession, one needs to read between the lines.

After initially praising the completion of a trade deal with South Korea, President Trump is now suggesting he may withhold final approval contingent on progress on talks with North Korea. This makes no sense whatsoever.

Another significant development on the Korean Peninsula.

After several days of speculation, it was confirmed that the leaders of North Korea and China had met in Beijing. This was meant as much for external consumption as it was the relationship between the two nations.

While the nature of Rex Tillerson’s firing as Secretary of State was shocking in its abruptness, taken in context with the rocky nature of his tenure it was hardly surprising.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

The President jokingly praised his Chinese counterpart’s power grab at a fundraiser. But he seriously doesn’t understand the rule of law.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Donald Trump is without question the pettiest, most vindictive person to ever occupy the Oval Office.

President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.

While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.

The Trump Administration’s effort to impose sanctions against North Korea suffered a significant defeat in the United Nations Security Council.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

Another provocative move by North Korea.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Donald Trump discovers reality.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Donald Trump seems to be surprised that being President requires actual work.

Has China finally had enough of North Korea?

A warning to North Korea.

The apparent assassination of Kim Jong-Un’s eldest brother has raised red flags in China.

Experts are casting doubt on North Korea’s claim that it tested a thermonuclear device earlier this week.

Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.

For the first time since Chang Kai-Shek escaped across the Taiwan Strait, the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China will meet this weekend.

Thanks mostly to well-founded demographic concerns, China is ending the ‘One Child’ policy, but it is probably too late for them to avoid the consequences of the forty year program.

Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.

Yesterday’s stock market drop led some Republican candidates to say some particularly dumb things.

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

A scandal erupted when the Chinese people learned their leaders were flying first class and staying in five-star hotels. Problem solved!

China’s Communist Party has announced a significant change to the nation’s infamous “One Child” policy.