Kolleen Rayne

Kolleen Rayne

The Case for Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

The release of a 28-point plan last week to end the war in Ukraine has generated heaps of commentary—and controversy. Part of that is outstanding questions over its authorship, which Reuters reported on Wednesday drew from a Russian paper submitted…

How Japan’s Sanae Takaichi Torpedoed Ties With China

The fallout from new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan continues to send shockwaves. The row erupted because Takaichi overturned Japan’s carefully cultivated posture of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan and crossed Beijing’s red line on what it contends…