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Trump’s Trade Talks Are Unlikely to Resolve Tariff Woes Anytime Soon

Trump’s Trade Talks Are Unlikely to Resolve Tariff Woes Anytime Soon
03.05.2025 2

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Spain’s Blackout Brings a New Meaning to Energy Security

Spain’s Blackout Brings a New Meaning to Energy Security
01.05.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s War on the Houthis Is Going Nowhere

Trump’s War on the Houthis Is Going Nowhere
23.04.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Trade Policies Keep Undercutting His Own Goals

17.04.2025 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Congress Is Still Trying to Wrest Back Trade Authority From Trump

10.04.2025 5

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Tariffs Are Killing His Plans for Energy Dominance

08.04.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Markets Greet Trump’s Tariffs With a Blizzard of Red Numbers

03.04.2025 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Brings Even Bigger Tariffs Than Expected

03.04.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Tariffs Stretch Security Exceptions to the Breaking Point

31.03.2025 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Britain Is Banking on the Special Relationship to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs

27.03.2025 20

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump Dramatically Escalates Military Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis

19.03.2025 5

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

North Korea’s Nuclear Submarine May Not Be as Scary as It Looks

14.03.2025 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Metal Tariffs Intensify His Global Trade War

13.03.2025 9

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Economy Is Flashing Red

07.03.2025 40

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Europe Gets Serious About Defense Thanks to Trump’s Retreat

04.03.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump Has Officially Launched His North American Trade War

04.03.2025 6

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump and Zelensky Have an Oval Office Smackdown

28.02.2025 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Proposed Economic Rapprochement With Russia is Wrongheaded

27.02.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Trade Wars Are Self-Defeating

13.02.2025 60

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

America’s Economic Warfare Is Sowing Its Own Demise

08.02.2025 5

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump Returns to ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran

06.02.2025 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

How Trump Could Put Tighter Screws on Moscow

30.01.2025 5

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

How to Read Trump’s Day-One Trade Actions

21.01.2025 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

America’s Awkward Energy Insecurity Problem

20.01.2025 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Why Biden Is Going After Russian Energy Now?

11.01.2025 20

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Biden May Have Scuttled More Than Just A Steel Takeover

09.01.2025 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Ukraine Backers Make Last-Ditch Effort to Seize Russian Assets

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic There is vigorous movement afoot, in the weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump...

16.12.2024 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Trade Threats May Have a Silver Lining for Europe

Among the many countries targeted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats—a net that he recently widened to include all the BRICS...

05.12.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

It’s One of Trump’s Most Controversial Promises. This Is How He Might Carry It Out.

Tweet Share Share Comment This article was originally featured in Foreign Policy , the magazine of global politics and ideas. U.S. President-elect...

26.11.2024 6

Slate

Keith Johnson

Baltic Cable Outages Raise Questions—and Tensions with Moscow

A pair of undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea mysteriously stopped working in the last two days, and the first reaction from Germany and...

21.11.2024 6

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump’s Early Picks Worry John Bolton

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has flooded the zone with nominations for key national security positions that raise questions even among...

14.11.2024 5

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Could Trump Rekindle Diplomacy With North Korea?

Now that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has a Russian dance partner that actually delivers for him, will U.S. President-elect Donald Trump be...

14.11.2024 30

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Trump Wants to Make America Pay Again

What’s fascinating about former U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is that he is both replicating former President Grover...

06.11.2024 10

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Another ‘Stop the Steal’ Could Weaken America Abroad

Stay informed with FP’s news and analysis as the United States prepares to vote. Forget for a moment all the potential foreign-policy implications...

30.10.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Why North Korea’s Deployment of Troops to Russia Really Matters

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic The deployment of 10,000 or so North Korean troops to Russia marks a sharp escalation...

23.10.2024 3

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Can BRICS Finally Take On the West?

One of the more remarkable developments over the last 25 years is that an investment banker’s arbitrary acronym for a quartet of emerging market...

21.10.2024 30

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

Ukraine Faces a Double Threat if Russia Takes Pokrovsk

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic The latest Russian offensive in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, threatens to finally...

11.10.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

The Middle East Crisis Has Finally Shaken Oil Markets

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict MORE ON THIS TOPIC All eyes are on the scale and scope of Israel’s promised response to...

04.10.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

North Korean Shells Fuel Russia’s War—and Kim’s Ambitions

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic Top Ukrainian defense officials and U.S. diplomats agree about one thing: North Korean...

03.10.2024 7

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson

The U.N. Resolution at the Heart of the Israel-Lebanon Conflict

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict MORE ON THIS TOPIC What ended Israel’s last invasion of Lebanon in 2006—and made the latest...

02.10.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Keith Johnson