Many commentators have argued that the big winner in Wednesday’s poisonous Democratic Party debate was President Trump. But as the world assesses the United States in this 2020 election season, the long-term political beneficiaries may be foreign rivals such as China’s President Xi Jinping.

We’re living in the information age. But when it comes to fundamental change in society, organized industrial workers remain a powerful, bedrock force. And that’s just as true in Iran as in other modern nations.

Since Watergate, presidents and their aides have warned that impeachment is destabilizing to foreign policy. But history suggests otherwise. Presidential scandals create uncertainty abroad, but the impeachment process itself seems to bring clarity and resolution.

Pompeo doesn’t seem to realize it, but the United States is now implicitly endorsing a one-state solution — forcing Israel to make an agonizing decision about whether to deny full rights to the Arab residents of that state. Perhaps Israelis will rebel against making this choice and revive the possibility of a Palestinian state. Or perhaps Arabs, exhausted by this conflict, will induce Palestinians to accept defeat . . . and something less than statehood.

The Aspen conversation wasn’t a call to arms against China, but rather a call to prudent national security policy. 

The most important variable in the current Persian Gulf confrontation is time. The Trump administration wants to play a long game, to draw the sanctions tourniquet ever tighter. Iran needs to play a short game, to escape the U.S. chokehold before it becomes fatal.

Trump's “maximum pressure” campaign seems to have collided head on with Khamenei’s maximum resistance, David Ignatius notes. But what exactly are the dynamics driving the two ever closer to confrontation?

President Trump spoke the right words in commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but did he mean them? So far, his presidency has been about defying the postwar order that was based on shared values and global partnership, rather than cementing its legacy.

The recent escalations in the Sino-American trade war have left Huawei as one of the biggest casualties, David Ignatius writes. But things may get even worse, if the Trump administration and their Chinese rivals aren't careful—analysts this past week talked of a technological “decoupling” and a “digital Iron Curtain” descending on the global economy. And that sounds like a description of a world in which everyone would be worse off.