Gastonia, NC Correspondent — A summit that locks a tab is a summit that skipped the sentence about whose factory runs at night. Long-term schedules are adulthood if European line items are the ones that grow and American high-end stays the scarce part. They're a habit if the schedule is another way to write American … Continue reading Should the Washington NATO summit next week lock in a long-term Ukraine funding and production schedule, or mark the start of a narrower U.S. role?
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Will the rapid expansion of electric-vehicle mandates outpace the actual development of charging infrastructure and battery supply chains?
Dayton, Ohio Correspondent — Mandates can force adoption of the vehicle. The supporting systems move on entirely different clocks — charging networks, grid capacity, secure mineral supply. Right now the targets run ahead of both, and I'd point out that the binding constraint isn't the one people name. Everybody talks about chargers. The harder problem … Continue reading Will the rapid expansion of electric-vehicle mandates outpace the actual development of charging infrastructure and battery supply chains?
Should the United States continue to treat the Hong Kong protests primarily as an internal Chinese matter, or take a more active diplomatic stance?
Sydney, Australia Correspondent — Hong Kong occupies a middle position — legally part of China, operating under a framework the world has treated as distinct for twenty-two years. Treating the protests as purely internal concedes the argument that no external interest exists, which is precisely the claim being tested. A more active stance built on … Continue reading Should the United States continue to treat the Hong Kong protests primarily as an internal Chinese matter, or take a more active diplomatic stance?
