Ahmadi Ali

BRICS is al­lur­ing to as­pir­ing mem­bers pre­cise­ly be­cause it does not re­quire them to com­mit to an al­liance.

Tak­ing in more mem­bers too quick­ly could leave BRICS in­co­her­ent, weak­en­ing rather than strength­en­ing the bloc.

The Geor­gia in­dict­ment tests not just the US’s do­mes­tic pol­i­tics, but its in­ter­na­tion­al im­age. The world is watch­ing.

Bei­jing doesn’t have the tools that worked with Iran and Sau­di Ara­bia. But fail­ure could still be a win for Chi­na.

Flori­da’s gov­er­nor has em­braced rhetoric against US in­ter­na­tion­al­ism. But un­like Trump, he needs the GOP main­stream.

US states want to join Wash­ing­ton in im­pos­ing sanc­tions on for­eign ad­ver­saries. That’s bad for the world — and the US.

A bat­tle over chips with Chi­na is test­ing the uni­ty that the US and its al­lies have shown over Ukraine.

The US midterm elec­tion re­sults could shat­ter uni­ty over Ukraine as­sis­tance while spurring hawk­ish Chi­na poli­cies.

That ship has sailed. At best, it will al­low both na­tions to fo­cus on new pri­or­i­ties in oth­er parts of the world.