Kolleen Rayne

Kolleen Rayne

The Case for Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

[ad_1] 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…

How Japan’s Sanae Takaichi Torpedoed Ties With China

[ad_1] 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…

Canada Is Entering an Era of Realpolitik

[ad_1] When asked last weekend about stalled U.S.-Canada trade talks and when he’d last spoken with President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney replied, “Who cares? It’s a detail. I’ll speak to him again when it matters.” Days later,…