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Trump accuses China of meddling in midterms. It’s all about trade.

New Atlanticist
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Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

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Trump accuses China of meddling in midterms. It’s all about trade.

New Atlanticist
Mar 25, 2025

Reading between the lines of Taiwan’s new Quadrennial Defense Review

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New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2018

Trump accuses China of meddling in midterms. It’s all about trade.

By David A. Wemer

Trump offered no specific evidence of China’s purported “meddling” during his speech, but tied it directly to the trade issue, saying Beijing wants him to lose “because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade and we are winning on trade.”

China Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Sep 25, 2018

Trump puts America first at the United Nations

By Ashish Kumar Sen and David A. Wemer

“The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship,” US President Donald J. Trump told the assembled leaders, but “we only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”

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Sep 24, 2018

Vershbow Joins Fox Business to Discuss North Korea

By Alexander Vershbow

Watch the full discussion here.

Korea

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Sep 21, 2018

Manning in the Hill: Positive Moon-Kim Summit Creates a Diplomatic Opening in North Korea

By Robert A. Manning

Read the full article here.

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Sep 20, 2018

O’Toole Quoted in Newsweek on CAATSA

By Brian O'Toole

Read the full article here.

China Russia

New Atlanticist

Sep 19, 2018

Testing North Korea’s nuclear offer

By Ashish Kumar Sen

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to dismantle missile facilities in the presence of international inspectors and take steps toward denuclearization—provided the United States takes “corresponding measures.”

Japan Korea

In the News

Sep 19, 2018

Oosterveld Quoted in CS Monitor on China Tariffs

By Bart Oosterveld

Read the full article here.

China

In the News

Sep 19, 2018

Ahmad in WSJ: The Mafia That Threatens Afghanistan

By Javid Ahmad

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New Atlanticist

Sep 18, 2018

More shots fired in US-China trade war

By Ashish Kumar Sen

This is what a trade war looks like. On September 18, hours after US President Donald J. Trump announced his decision to impose 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, China struck back. Beijing retaliated immediately, announcing tariffs on an additional $60 billion in US imports. The new Chinese tariffs will target […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 17, 2018

Trump’s trade war unlikely to end soon

By David A. Wemer

“A deal with China before the midterms [in November] is extremely unlikely,” said Marie Kasperek, associate director at the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program.

China Trade and tariffs
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