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Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines

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Weekly Overview - Ukraine Crisis: Tensions remain high as all sides compete for more leverage

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Weekly Overview - Vienna negotiations - both sides play for leverage with no concessions in sight

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines

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Weekly Overview - Russia’s threat against Ukraine, the West’s response to date, and what should be done going forward

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Midweekly Overview - Latest US Intel Agency assessment on COVID provides opportunities for Beijing

Weekly Overview - A significant diplomatic blunder on AUKUS

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Weekly Overview - Biden commits to Taiwan’s defense - gets overruled by the official White House

Midweekly Overview - New military alliances increase the likelihood of a conflict in Europe

Weekly Overview - As Option B pressures rise, Iran is forced into a de-escalation with Azerbaijan/Turkey

Midweekly Overview - No - Xi Jinping did not change his objectives

Weekly Overview - Official NATO rhetoric misaligns with Washington’s national security priorities

Midweekly Overview - Taiwan air defense zone incursions have multiple motivations beyond the obvious

Weekly Overview - In a miscalculated message to Israel’s allies, Iran threatens Azerbaijan

Midweekly Overview - Biden’s UN address - self-imposed limitations and a missed opportunity to rally the world against China

Weekly Overview - Biden vs Johnson - on the correct way of responding to France

Midweekly Overview - Putin suffers an embarrassing setback in Duma elections - in spite of all the gimmicks, dirty tricks, and inadvertent Western assistance

Weekly Overview - AUKUS - a major diplomatic win for the US and a significant blow to China

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Weekly Overview - Stain of Kabul

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Midweekly Overview - The US will need to establish a new strategic framework for the nuclear deal negotiations with the incoming Raisi administration

Weekly Overview - The US secures a notable diplomatic win against China

Midweekly Overview - Russia offer its military bases for intel gathering on Afghanistan with the US - a deft realpolitik move

Weekly Overview - Merkel’s White House visit

Midweekly Overview - The US/Allied response to Xi Jinping’s promise to ‘‘unify’’ Taiwan: unforced diplomatic errors, U-turns and pandering.

Weekly Overview - Renewal of a 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship, reveal divergent strategic interests preventing a closer alliance

Midweekly Overview - The US enforces some boundaries, recovers some leverage, and props up the new Israeli government.

Weekly Overview - Focusing on domestic audiences, China and Russia openly challenge the West

Midweekly Overview - The US continues to demonstrate uncertainty on Nord Stream 2

Weekly Overview - Japan offers the first test of post-communiqués Europe

Midweekly Overview - Iran’s new hardline President - implications and opportunities

Weekly Overview - Evaluating the diplomacy and accomplishments of the Biden - Putin summit

Midweekly Overview - Israel’s New Coalition Government - Implications

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Weekly Overview -China’s welcoming of Wall Street giants’ expansions in its domestic market, is not an example of a reciprocity and mutual goodwill

Midweekly Overview - Blinken’s attack of ‘‘Maximum Pressure’’ doctrine reduces the US leverage over Iran

Weekly Overview - China’s traps itself with an obnoxious response to the Lab Leak Theory

Midweekly Overview - The US must leverage the incipient EU/China confrontation

Weekly Overview - Iran gains from the Gaza hostilities

Midweekly Overview - Why would the Russian opposition admit to game over?

Weekly Overview - China uses America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan - predictably

Midweekly Overview - White House undermining its own Diplomatic efforts on Taiwan

Weekly Overview - Blinken’s new framing of Russia

Midweekly Overview - Evaluating Biden's China comments in Congress speech

Weekly Overview - Leaked interview of the Iranian Foreign Minister and geopolitical implications of the 'Armenian Genocide' labeling

Midweekly Overview - whether the US and Israel are coordinating a good cop/bad cop strategy on Iran.

Weekly Overview - Putin's troops withdrawal and Japanese stance on Taiwan

Midweekly Overview - Afghanistan Withdrawal

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