Edward Wong
@ewong
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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In case anyone feels nostalgia for the Iraq War — a Washington Post opinion piece by Douglas Feith and Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Breaking: The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, the latest effort to try to cripple it. The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to a former ICC judge. Many US allies are among the 125 court member states.
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Both Rubio and Vance have been asked about the latest @WSJ story on Amb. Kim Guilfoyle, and neither has said its accusations about her selling access to senior US officials are false. Rubio spent Wednesday with her in Athens.
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Asked about WSJ reporting on Kimberly Guilfoyle—which includes her texts—Rubio turns his fire on the press: “I’m not playing this game with you.”
“I don’t even know if it’s true or not true.”
“You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me.”
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New report in The Times about David Milstein: a Trump appointee and former Ted Cruz aide who "suppressed and altered reports critical of Israel" from his position at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem
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It is hard to remember the last time the US has been forced out of this many bases, this quickly. Maybe it’s temporary. Maybe not.
Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back via @NYTimes
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ
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At sunset near the Parthenon in Athens, @marcorubio gave a speech saying that choices by Western nations in the next decade will “determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy, servitude and decline.”
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SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice.
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CBS confirmed via a former US official and a diplomatic source that Emirati Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, President of the UAE, did share a warning with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the weeks leading up to the Oct 7 attack. The UAE had learned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing an attack but did not have specific intelligence such as a date, time or location. McGurk told CBS News the U.S. had no intelligence that could have warned about Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
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Biden admin officials would routinely omit or downplay the Israeli strike on the Iranian compound. I’d point out that Iran didn’t attack out of the blue & they’d question if what Israel hit really counted as a diplomatic facility or say it was normal tit-for-tat in Syria.
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Saudi-Backed Yemeni Government Declares War Against Houthis
"The new operation threatens to open a new front in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran & further entangle the U.S. in the widening regional conflict that it began more than seven months ago."
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"We're not going to talk about modernization or transformation or experimentation? We're going to talk about standards and fitness…tell our guys on the ground when we don't have anything to intercept the next Shahed coming at them that we're going to launch some standards up”
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Hours before Krist Noem left her job as D.H.S. secretary, her agency bought 5 planes from a donor at a big markup, records show. They were supposed to fly deportees but have largely sat idle -- a striking symbol of gov. waste under President Trump.
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In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term.
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Speaking as someone who was caught by the Washington Post’s layoffs and does not work for the Washington Sun, I much prefer a situation where our city sustains multiple news outlets to one in which we pit them against each another.
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Trump’s former press secretary:
NEW: President Trump directly told Russ Vought to find the funds to finance the ads glorifying him. The agency’s general counsel and WH counsel both signed off on the move as legal. The president and WH chief of staff spoke to the DHS secretary.
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Since early August, Iran has launched about 30 drone attacks and 10 anti-ship missile attacks per week against commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz w/@pranavbask
The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding "Western civilizational norms," and documenting "backsliding" in Europe related to mass migration, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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"The United States is still better liked than China. But for the first time, in a historically pro-American region, Latin Americans see China’s influence in a better light than America’s: 65% call it positive, against 57% for the United States."
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