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Howard W. French

Howard W. French

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Homophobic Laws Threaten U.S.-Ghana Ties

Unbeknownst to most Americans, for whom Africa scarcely registers as an afterthought, the United States has a long and deep history of special...

18.03.2024 20

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

China’s Global EV Domination Is Just Beginning

On a recent Monday, when a generically named Chinese ship called the Explorer No. 1 docked in the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven, it may have...

08.03.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

The End of Françafrique?

In August 1958, Charles de Gaulle, who had just returned to power in France, set off on a tour of his country’s sub-Saharan African colonies. His...

26.02.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Soviet Succession Was Bad. America’s Is Worse.

In the mid-1980s, although its dissolution was nearly at hand, few were predicting the complete demise of the Soviet Union. But when it came to the...

16.02.2024 9

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Mexico Is America’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road

Every now and then, a narrowly framed news item offers up glimmers of pathways toward the possible resolution of much bigger problems. And so it was...

09.02.2024 9

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Retribution in the Israel-Hamas War

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the United States dramatically shifted...

30.01.2024 10

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

The Reason China Can’t Stop Its Decline

Herd sentiment among pundits and others who analyze the direction of Chinese affairs has always been subject to sudden shifts. In the late 1970s and...

24.01.2024 8

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Beijing’s Blind Spot on Taiwan

During the middle years of the last decade, I had a front-row seat to what seemed like potential epochal change unfurling across East Asia. During the...

12.01.2024 5

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

It’s Not Too Late for Biden to Restrain Israel

Shortly after the start of Israeli assault on Gaza, which came in response to Hamas’s murderous Oct. 7 attack on its territory, Israel’s...

08.01.2024 6

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Defining Away Palestinians’ Right to Resist

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The decision this week by Harvard University not to remove its president...

15.12.2023 5

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

It’s Time to Reconsider U.S. Military Aid

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden issued what sounded like a...

08.12.2023 10

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Kissinger’s Great Game

To those who steep themselves in history, and others who follow international affairs with obsessive focus, the bill of particulars often cited this...

02.12.2023 20

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Why Xi Was All Smiles With Biden

The Western press rarely shows China’s leader, Xi Jinping, smiling broadly or laughing, seeming to prefer photos of him that project a stern, even...

21.11.2023 10

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Where Is the West’s Moral Courage on Israel?

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The footage from inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, which the Israel...

18.11.2023 10

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Entering a Moral Abyss

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic For at least two weeks now, the press has told us with numbing repetition...

03.11.2023 3

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Europe’s Coming Reckoning on Immigration

This time of year, the days in Ferrara, a slightly out-of-the-way medieval castle town in northern Italy that I visited in late September, have a...

28.10.2023 8

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Biden’s Tunnel Vision on Israel Risks Alienating a Big Part of the World

Tweet Share Share Comment This article was originally featured in Foreign Policy, the magazine of global politics and ideas....

21.10.2023 10

Slate

Howard W. French

Biden’s Unquestioning Support for Israel Could Be a Costly Error

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic In war, it is commonplace to note that the longer a conflict’s duration...

20.10.2023 10

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

The Peril in Declaring ‘I Stand With Israel’

News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The cascade of emotion and revulsion over the heinous tactics used by...

13.10.2023 3

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

The U.S. Silence on Canada’s Allegations Against India Speaks Volumes

Nearly five years ago, acting on a warrant from a federal judge in New York, Canadian police arrested a high-profile Chinese businesswoman, Meng...

28.09.2023 20

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

Why Ukraine Is Not a Priority for the Global South

As world leaders gather in New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, many of the themes of their speeches are so predictable...

19.09.2023 1

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

China’s Youth Are Increasingly Grim About Their Future

For most of the past 15 years, my interactions with young Chinese in their late teens and 20s have obeyed a familiar pattern. Having grown up in an...

07.09.2023 1

Foreign Policy

Howard W. French

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