Let Trump be Trump to save jailed Belarusians, opposition leader says – POLITICO

Let Trump be Trump to save jailed Belarusians, opposition leader says – POLITICO

But beneath the surface, the opposition’s view of the transatlantic campaign to squeeze Lukashenko has evolved.  They’re still leaning on the Trump administration to promote prisoner releases. But Europe, Tsikhanouskaya’s team now believes, is best positioned to champion the cause of Belarusian freedom — with ever-tightening sanctions key to the pressure campaign. Donald Trump called…

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Why Washington Fixates on AI

Why Washington Fixates on AI

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Every week, we cover the latest developments in the U.S.-China relationship, among other topics. But this week, we take a step back and discuss a broader trend: artificial intelligence and why it’s become such a fixation for China hawks over other areas of U.S.-China technology competition. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China…

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Putin’s Alaska triumph – POLITICO

Putin’s Alaska triumph – POLITICO

The highly anticipated and hastily arranged Alaska summit was never likely to mirror the map-redrawing summit of Yalta, where Joseph Stalin cajoled — some would say coerced — a physically ill and mentally exhausted Franklin Roosevelt and a grumbling Winston Churchill to carve up Europe between Western and Soviet spheres. Nor was it going to…

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What Ukraine wants (and fears) ahead of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska – POLITICO

What Ukraine wants (and fears) ahead of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska – POLITICO

Moscow claims it’s transferring Ukrainians to safety from the conflict, yet refuses to return the children to their relatives, putting them into the adoption system as orphans instead and immersing them in Russian propaganda.  Recently, the Trump administration made it even harder to track and retrieve Ukrainian children in Russia after it disbanded Yale University’s…

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Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition

Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition

The fates of breakthrough technologies and the energy to power them are deeply interwoven, with progress at scale in one difficult to advance without the other. Nowhere is this interconnection more consequential—and more dynamic—than in the U.S.-China relationship, which is marked by intense political tensions and competition, but also by under-appreciated technical overlap. Given the…

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China denounces US tariffs at Asia meeting

China Denounces US Tariff “Bullying”

The United States should not use tariffs to bully other countries, China said on Friday, as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio played down the possibility that tariffs could enable China to forge closer ties with angry U.S. allies. Rubio, in Malaysia for a Southeast Asian regional meeting, said he had positive talks with his…

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