U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaking about negotiations to end the warin Ukraine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2025. SAUL LOEB / REUTERS.… Will ...

Commanding and extending spheres of influence appears to restore a fading sense of grandeur. For China, Taiwan alone will not suffice. For Russia, Ukraine can never be adequate to fulfill Putin’s ...

Under President Donald Trump, the US is defecting from its decades-long position as an ‘open door’ in preference for a global order that embraces spheres of influence ... of proposed US tariffs are ...

Playing to our strengths, we defeated the Soviet Union during the Cold War and, more recently, pursued a strategy to isolate an imperious China ... both believe in spheres of influence.

In reality, however, the 1945 Yalta Conference implicitly accepted spheres of influence for the Soviet ... That leaves China, which has propped up Russia through its Ukranian adventure.

They seem to prefer a world divided into spheres of influence under a handful of large ... rally behind an aggressive American approach to China. If Trump’s view of the world is redolent of ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

Both think in terms of spheres of influence. For Trump and Putin ... is one of such alternative regional forces that Europe may remember in the near future. China reaching out to Europe Italy’s La ...

What seems to drive Trump is a more simplistic view of the world in which great powers carve out spheres of influence in which ... to rule the world without China. A deal between them may be ...