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Asia

Asian allies fear being dumped by Trump

America’s friends in the Indo-Pacific live in dread of being abandoned like Ukraine

Asia

Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID will hurt Asia, too

Even less aid-dependent countries, such as India, will be affected

Leaders

Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America

The president and reality are drifting apart

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Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak

His address to Congress showed that Republicans will follow their leader anywhere, and that Democrats don’t have one

Business

How Trump’s tariffs could crush American carmakers

They must hope the levies do not endure

Leaders

The lesson from Trump’s Ukrainian weapons freeze

And the grim choice facing Volodymyr Zelensky

Finance & economics

Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever

America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China

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Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York City

The disgraced former governor announces a run for mayor of the Big Apple

Europe

As Trump suspends military aid, what are the chokeholds on Ukraine?

The war-torn country can substitute some—but nothing like all—of the kit it gets from America

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Trump’s armed forces won’t look like Biden’s

America is set to spend more—and differently 

Finance & economics

America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown

Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth

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Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s savvy dealmaker

The novice diplomat embodies the president’s transactional worldview