Tag: China
Stevenson’s army, November 29
– NBC sees a Biden-Obama clash on Israel policy
– WaPo reports pressure on India over attempted assassination
– FP reports the surprisingly bipartisan House committee on China, but notes it can’t report bills.
– AP says Trump would likely use US troops domestically
– The issue of US hypocrisy came up in class. Dan Drezner explains its role.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here, with occasional videos of my choice. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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Stevenson’s army, November 24
-FT says senior officials dismissed detailed warning about Hamas attacks
– Taiwan opposition crumbles, WSJ says Beijing loses.
– WaPo says Russia & China plan tunnel to Crimea
–NYT doubts PA could govern Gaza
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Stevenson’s army, November 16
– The Senate has formally insisted on a conference with the House on the NDAA instead of following the recent practice of reaching agreement informally. I’m not sure why the GOP wanted this, but one consequence is that a formal conference sets up a complex array of parliamentary moves in each house on amendments in disagreement and questions of scope — more than you need to know for class, but maybe fun to watch. One of the first steps may be instructing conferees. Another consequence is that final action is likely to be delayed because of the maneuvering and parliamentary requirements.
-SAIS Prof Chivvis has authored a thorough and valuable paper on The Role of Congress in US-Chinese relations.
-Politico’s China Watcher has a good summary of the Biden-Xi summit.
-CFR has good background on Biden’s IPEF, which fell short at the APEC meeting.
– WSJ says intercepts persuaded US intelligence of Hamas use of hospitals.
– WaPo says hostage deal looks promising.
-WaPo summarizes US opinion on Israel and Ukraine.
– Pew says 32% of Americans under 30 get their news from TikTok.
– NYT summarizes recent articles on Trump policy plans.
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Stevenson’s army, November 15
Just in time for the Xi-Biden summit, the congressionally created US-China Economic and Security Review Commission released its annual report.
– Politico explains how the IPEF plan got scuttled.
– All such summits are carefully choreographed. CNN tells about this one.
– Senate Rules Committee reported a measure to get around Tuberville holds, but lack current GOP support.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here, with occasional videos of my choice. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
– Normally the majority leader controls the Senate agenda. GOP tried and failed to take over.
– Todd Harrison on how Congress should handle the Space Force.
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Stevenson’s army, November 13
– The Hill looks at the budget fight as viewed by the House and by the Senate.
– Bloomberg says Netanyahu also faces a budget dilemma.
– WaPo details Hamas planning
– NYT contrasts Xi’s public statements in his first term with internal statements.
– WSJ reveals back channel maneuvers setting up Xi-Biden talks.
Charlie added these extras later:
– Matt Yglesias explains how the weakness of US political parties — and because the hyperpartisanship is negative rather than affective — prevents any significant challenges to Biden and Trump.
– Politico says US defense companies don’t like the Buy American requirements.
-Political scientists discuss possible occupation of Gaza.
-The history of human shield concerns goes back to the Franco-Prussian war and has been ideologically divisive ever since.
-Lawfare explains the formation of Israel’s wartime cabinet. [Historical note, when Churchill became prime minister in May 1940, he created and assumed the role of Minister of Defence, although there was no ministry of defence at the time.]
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Stevenson’s army, November 11
– NYT has interactive graphic on the Gaza tunnels.
– WOTR writer revisits his article on Israel’s urban warfare
– Prof Hal Brands analyzes Chinese strategies for Taiwan
Politico discusses the Trump plan for Gaza:
LET IT BURN: Trump has a plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: just let it burn.
“You have a war that’s going on and you’re probably going to have to let this play out … because a lot of people are dying,” he also told Univision reporter ENRIQUE ACEVEDO last night. “There is no hatred like the Palestinian hatred of Israel and Jewish people. And probably the other way around also, I don’t know. You know, it’s not as obvious, but probably that’s it too. So sometimes you have to let things play out and you have to see where it ends.”
“Eventually there’s peace, because you’re going to have a winner and a loser,” Trump continued.
It’s as pure a distillation of EDWARD LUTTWAK’s “let it burn” theory as there exists. In his seminal 1999 Foreign Affairs article “Give War a Chance,” Luttwak wrote “an unpleasant truth often overlooked is that although war is a great evil, it does have a great virtue: it can resolve political conflicts and lead to peace … fighting must continue until a resolution is reached.”
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