Diplomatic Correspondent @nytimes. Author of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China." Harvard Nieman Fellow. Taught at Princeton & UC Berkeley.

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I can’t believe I’m holding this! It’s the completion of a six-year project that really spans my adult life — and 80 years of Chinese history, from Mao to Xi. I tell the story of modern China through a dramatic family saga and contemporary reporting. Learn more and order here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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I feel like the fact that Jalen's dad played for the Knicks in the finals against the Spurs back in 1999 when Jalen was just two years old is legitimately under-appreciated. What a dope NYC story.
Little Jalen Brunson on the floor of Madison Square Garden. Dad Rick was on 3 Knicks teams including the 1999 Eastern Conference champs. #Legacy #NewYorkForever
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Trump’s base has varied opinions on the Iran war. He likely has a good chance of selling this type of settlement to many of them. It’ll be harder to persuade supporters whose views on Iran align with some perspectives in Israel, but should that be a decisive factor?
Administration has settled on "no money will exchange hands" as way to paper over unfreezing assets and Iranian oil sales, and "at an appropriate time" as way to paper over lack of agreement to remove HEU. This deal is going to test Trump's salesmanship even with his own base.
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NEW: China arrested a US citizen after Trump met with Xi in Beijing and accused him of endangering national security — a rare charge against an American. The detainee, U Min Zin, is a grad student at @UCBerkeley who researches Myanmar. This adds a new strain to US-China ties.
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So much for Rubio’s attempt to mend ties with India on his recent trip there. The Trump administration continues to take actions that infuriate India — notably a recent military strike on a commercial ship near Oman that killed three Indian sailors. Now Rubio warns India.
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2 goals for Balogun — fun fact: he has birthright citizenship, son of Nigerians born in Brooklyn 🇺🇸 ⚽️ ussoccer.com/stories/2023/05…
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USA vs. Paraguay in Mt. Pleasant, DC
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed our story about the arrest of a US citizen on a rare national security charge. A spokesman said after we posted this story that U Min Zin, an American scholar from Myanmar, had been arrested on suspicion of "espionage activities."
NEW: China arrested a US citizen after Trump met with Xi in Beijing and accused him of endangering national security — a rare charge against an American. The detainee, U Min Zin, is a grad student at @UCBerkeley who researches Myanmar. This adds a new strain to US-China ties.
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NEW: China arrested a US citizen after Trump met with Xi in Beijing and accused him of endangering national security — a rare charge against an American. The detainee, U Min Zin, is a grad student at @UCBerkeley who researches Myanmar. This adds a new strain to US-China ties.
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The president of Colombia objects to the travel restrictions placed on him by the Trump administration and says he had planned to meet with Mamdani in New York and deliver a lecture in Boston. Rubio revoked Petro’s US visa last year after he took part in a pro-Palestinian rally.
Nunca se me informó de restricciones a mi visa, y de hecho fui al funeral de Jessi Jackson en Chicago. Nunca se me informó que sería arrestado. Considero que quienes asistimos al periodo de la Asamblea de Naciones como presidentes de la república estamos protegidos por la ley de los EEUU que nos permite, a los jefes de Estado del mundo hablar de manera libre y sin consecuencias en ese periodo. Cómo esta vez solo asistí al acto de recibir la presidencia del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas y dirigir la primera sesión bajo nuestra presidencia, considero poco democrático que se restringiera mi libertad de hablar con el alcalde de Nueva York, autoridad local de los EEUU y mi libertad de pensamiento al no permitirme dictar una conferencia a la que fui invitado en Boston Nuestras constituciones se fundamentan en la libertad, la democracia y la soberanía, bajo este último principio, que respeto para los EEUU y para Colombia y para todas las naciones del mundo, acepté las condiciones para que Colombia pueda ejercer su liderazgo mundial ganado. No estoy de acuerdo con la intromisión del gobierno de los EEUU en la campaña electoral cuyas decisiones solo corresponden al pueblo de Colombia en el ejercicio pleno de su libertad. Cómo escribí hoy en las paginas del Washington Post las desavenencias con la política internacional de Washington, que en el caso de Gaza fue de la mayoría de los pueblos del mundo, no me impiden que mi palabra en el trato que hicimos en la oficina Oval de la Casa Blanca se mantengan, no importa las diferencias políticas que tenemos. Con el presidente Donald Trump acordé, sin menoscabo de nuestra soberanía nacional, porque mi Patria es Colombia, todo el esfuerzo conjunto en la lucha contra el narcotráfico de cocaína y fentanilo. Mi palabra se expresa en hechos que no solo es incautar una cantidad de cocaína mayor que los tres últimos gobiernos sumados, sino disminuir efectivamente, con las mediciones satelitales hechas por la Policía Nacional, las áreas de cultivos de hoja de Coca, y a través de una política eficaz como ha sido la erradicación voluntaria por parte de 31.000 familias campesinas cultivadoras de hoja de Coca que ya han entregado su verificación a la oficina de para las drogas de las Naciones Unidas y ya se han certificado casi 9.000 hectáreas de las 13.000 que se han entregado de un plan, antes de terminar mi gobierno, de más de 30.000 hectáreas.
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NEW from @nytimes: Trump's Beijing bromance with Xi was a year in the making. Their aides quietly held talks to forge "constructive strategic stability" after Rubio first mentioned that in Malaysia and the Caribbean. Now Trump seeks accommodation with Xi on trade and Taiwan.
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Mamdani had planned to meet in NY this week with Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia. But the Trump administration told Colombia to cancel the meeting. It said Petro couldn't visit NY outside the UN since Rubio had revoked his visa after he took part in a pro-Palestinian rally.
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NEW: The former CIA officer found with more than 300 gold bars in his home worked closely with the Stephen Feinberg, the #2 Pentagon official, on a covert program to spy on China
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A side quest to do regime change in Cuba
It's striking how Trump increasingly describes the use of U.S. military force as a rolling global itinerary instead of defined objectives. "We took a little journey down to Iran. We first stopped off in Venezuela, by the way..." "As soon as that’s done, on our way back, we’ll just make a little brief stop in Cuba..."
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“These think tanks traffic in political and corporate opinion. They build consensus so journalists start to spout opinions as if they’re facts.” Relevant lines from “Dark Arena,” a spy novel by former DGSE officer Jack Beaumont
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Good piece by @ewong about President Trump's increasing deference to China, seemingly at the cost of supporting Taiwan and Asian allies: nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/po… I think that's partly because Xi outplayed Trump on the trade war.
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NEW from @nytimes: Trump's Beijing bromance with Xi was a year in the making. Their aides quietly held talks to forge "constructive strategic stability" after Rubio first mentioned that in Malaysia and the Caribbean. Now Trump seeks accommodation with Xi on trade and Taiwan.
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