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Modi is a different nationalist than Putin or Trump

  Over the past year, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has emerged as the ideological patron of a certain brand of conservatism worldwide. Politicians from France’s Marine Le Pen, to Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, to Donald Trump appear drawn to Putin’s vision of a world marked by weaker transnational power blocs, fewer meddlesome liberals and a harder line against radical Islam. ...

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Making the Syria strikes count

  In the span of just a few days, US President Donald Trump appears to have met both his first true foreign policy crisis and his most challenging bilateral summit more smoothly than many had feared he might. Whether this turns out to be anything more than a symbolic victory, and whether it has an effect in the fight against ...

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Trump, Xi ice-breaking summit

  North Korea, trade and tariff were among many issues on the table at the much heralded summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jingping. But Xi visit was overshadowed by US missile strikes on Syrian base in the wake of chemical weapons attack by Assad regime that killed more than 80 civilians, including dozens of children. ...

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