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...Former deputy secretary of state Bill Burns was dispatched by Barack Obama’s administration in 2016 after the incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen, was elected....
...She soared to fame in 2018 after her commission to paint Michelle Obama....
...Trump has also claimed falsely that Haley could be ineligible for the presidency, reviving the “birther” conspiracy theories he propagated about Barack Obama....
...well as we knew Tsai when she ran for president because he hasn’t been in any notable national positions before premier and VP,” said Bonnie Glaser, managing director of Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall...
...The Marshall Islands is also less susceptible to being browbeaten by China than other smaller nations. It has a US military base and recognises Taiwan....
...Or because the suites feel like single-girl or -guy apartments, thanks to the layouts and the unfussy but coddling decor (courtesy of Michael S Smith, the designer whom the Obamas chose to make the White...
...Andrew Weber, the former assistant secretary of defence in the Obama administration who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks, called the work “reckless, risky research with virtually...
...Under Barack Obama, ties were at times frosty....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said Beijing had signalled that it did not want relations to worsen....
...“There is a sense that it is a good idea to give Taiwan some reassurance at this time,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund....
...“There’s a sense that it is a good idea to give Taiwan reassurance at this time,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund....
...As an opportunity for enlightened self-interest, it compares to George Marshall’s massive postwar aid programme. That secured the loyalty of western Europe at the start of the cold war....
...There was “no doubt” that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against its own people, Biden said, speaking as vice-president under Barack Obama....
...The delegation included Michèle Flournoy, a former top Pentagon official, Evan Medeiros, a former White House Asia adviser to Barack Obama, and Mike Green, who held the same position for George W Bush....
...“With Obama it feels less about you and more about him. I think the charisma surrounding Obama is one in which we project ourselves on to him. He’s whatever we want him to be....
...John Marshall Harlan was a lonely liberal voice as the 19th century court drastically restricted civil rights and liberties....
...Just two black justices — Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas — have served on the Supreme Court, and only five women....
...Not much has changed in the intervening decades: from Forgetting Sarah Marshall to The White Lotus, the cultural perception of the Hawaiian vacation stays pretty much the same....
...Former US president Barack Obama’s 2016 quip about “free-riders” exploiting America’s security guarantees and not paying their fair share towards Nato’s collective defence was partly aimed at Angela Merkel...
...“A crisis of perhaps unprecedented magnitude was possible if this problem was not resolved,” said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, Ankara director of the German Marshall Fund, a US think-tank....
...“We are dealing with something akin to nuclear warheads here,” says Roger Marshall, the Republican senator for Kansas....
...the Colony chief another grandiose role overseeing a “Marshall Plan for the Middle East”....
...General George Marshall, architect of the plan that revitalised Europe after the second world war, was like Powell tapped to be secretary of state....
...This was first prompted by Barack Obama rewriting some rules to make it tougher for goods using forced labour to get into the US, and escalated under Donald Trump, whose administration found in the CBP powers...
...greater economic engagement with China would turn it into a responsible stakeholder on the world stage proved false — that era of US policymaking is over,” said Lindsay Gorman, a China expert at the German Marshall...
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