Here’s a contrarian thought: President Trump had the right instinct to insist that China help resolve the nightmare problem of North Korea. A peaceful solution is impossible without help from the other great power in East Asia. As Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition—and not be driven into …

Husam Zomlot does not have an easy job. He is the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s representative in Donald Trump’s Washington. And despite Trump’s early promise to seek the ultimate deal to bring peace to the Holy Land, his administration is focused on more pressing matters. Zomlot’s biggest problem these days is a piece of legislation named for Taylor Force, a former …

Central banks are born to lead. When they start following commercial lenders or asset prices, the message for investors is that the authorities have lost the plot. That’s what is happening with the Reserve Bank of India, which on Wednesday cut its repurchase rate by a quarter percentage point to 6 percent two days after State Bank of India preemptively …