by jpitney | Mar 5, 2023 | Bipartisanship, China, Congress, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives
Dana Milbank at WP: Ask Mike Gallagher. The Wisconsin Republican has been put in charge of the new House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party — and the chairman so far is turning his panel into everything the covid committee isn’t: bipartisan, serious and...
by jpitney | Mar 3, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Public Opinion
Frank Newport at Gallup: Sixty-five percent of Americans prefer the U.S. to take the leading (20%) or a major role (45%) in world affairs. This is down from 69% in 2019 and 72% as recently as 2017. The current figure is one percentage point below the prior low from...
by jpitney | Jul 5, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Foreign Policy
Andrew Desiderio at Politico writes about overseas congressional delegations {CODELS] Many facets of official Washington can look impenetrably bureaucratic to the voters who send lawmakers there, and in some ways CODELs are no exception. But there’s a reason the...
by jpitney | May 13, 2022 | Foreign Policy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Greg Norman at Fox News: A Russian lawmaker is warning Friday that recent comments from Poland’s leaders are encouraging Moscow to “put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine.” Russian State Duma Deputy Oleg Morozov,...
by jpitney | Nov 19, 2021 | Democracy, Foreign Policy
Anne Applebaum at The Atlantic: The centrality of democracy to American foreign policy has been declining for many years—at about the same pace, perhaps not coincidentally, as the decline of respect for democracy in America itself. The Trump presidency was a four-year...
