# Foreign Time

> Foreign Time covers global diplomacy, security, trade, alliances, and sanctions for readers who follow international affairs closely.

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## Sections
- [Diplomacy](https://foreigntime.com/category/diplomacy): Summits, envoys, and the negotiations that shape relations between states.
- [Security](https://foreigntime.com/category/security): Conflict, defense policy, and the military balance between powers.
- [Trade](https://foreigntime.com/category/trade): Tariffs, supply chains, and the deals that move goods across borders.
- [Alliances](https://foreigntime.com/category/alliances): Blocs, treaties, and the partnerships that anchor global politics.
- [Sanctions](https://foreigntime.com/category/sanctions): Economic pressure campaigns and the states caught in them.
- [World Politics](https://foreigntime.com/category/world-politics): Elections, leadership, and the domestic politics that ripple outward.

## Articles
- [Netanyahu Is Banking His Election on a Trump Endorsement He Hasn't Gotten](https://foreigntime.com/article/netanyahu-trump-endorsement-israel-election): Facing possible defeat, and a return to his corruption trial without power to shield him, Netanyahu wants Trump's public backing ahead of Israel's election. Trump, frustrated over Gaza and Iran, is in no hurry to give it. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/netanyahu-trump-endorsement-israel-election/md)
- [A Gray-Zone Warfare Wave Is Targeting Germany](https://foreigntime.com/article/germany-gray-zone-hybrid-warfare-russia): A bomb-carrying drone near a Ukraine supply hub, foreign agents tailing a drone-parts CEO, and a disinformation blitz on state elections: Elisabeth Braw traces a pattern of likely Russian gray-zone attacks that shows vulnerability, not hostility, is what makes a target. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/germany-gray-zone-hybrid-warfare-russia/md)
- [State Department Taps Palantir and Anduril for a Free-Speech Program](https://foreigntime.com/article/state-department-ftep-palantir-anduril-free-speech): A new State Department initiative recruits defense and surveillance tech firms to advise on digital freedom of expression, a pairing experts call baffling given the companies' own track records on data collection and border surveillance. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/state-department-ftep-palantir-anduril-free-speech/md)
- [Bolivia Struggles to Turn Its Lithium Riches Into Profits](https://foreigntime.com/article/bolivia-lithium-salar-uyuni-paz-economy): Bolivia holds a fifth of the world's lithium but mines almost none of it. President Rodrigo Paz needs a constitutional change and Indigenous buy-in to fix that, while residents around the Salar de Uyuni say opaque contracts with China and Russia have already cost the government their trust. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/bolivia-lithium-salar-uyuni-paz-economy/md)
- [Trump's New Tech Strategy Bets on Allies It Keeps Alienating](https://foreigntime.com/article/trump-national-security-technology-strategy-china): The White House's national security science and technology strategy leans on deep coordination with allies and even 'cooperative restraint' with rivals like China, a more measured posture that sits awkwardly next to the administration's tariffs and troop drawdowns. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/trump-national-security-technology-strategy-china/md)
- [Southeast Asia Isn't Buying Washington's Reassurance Tour](https://foreigntime.com/article/southeast-asia-colby-flexible-realism-tour): Elbridge Colby spent a week telling the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia that the US is 'digging in,' even as Washington redirected a carrier to the Middle East and gutted drills with South Korea the same week. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/southeast-asia-colby-flexible-realism-tour/md)
- [Why Politics Feels Louder Than Ever but Changes Less](https://foreigntime.com/article/anton-jager-hyperpolitics-interview-democracy): Political scientist Anton Jager tells Foreign Policy that rising voter turnout and protest movements worldwide are being met with collapsing party and union membership, a mismatch he calls 'hyperpolitics' — and one the right has so far exploited better than the left. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/anton-jager-hyperpolitics-interview-democracy/md)
- [Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey Sign a NATO-Style Mutual Defense Pact](https://foreigntime.com/article/pakistan-saudi-arabia-turkey-mecca-defense-pact): The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement treats an attack on any one signatory as an attack on all three, pairing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, Turkey's military and drone industry, and Saudi oil wealth in a pact officials call defensive but that Iran and Israel are already reading as aimed at them. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/pakistan-saudi-arabia-turkey-mecca-defense-pact/md)
- [Netanyahu Rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Plan to Disarm Hamas](https://foreigntime.com/article/netanyahu-rejects-gaza-peace-plan-hamas-disarmament): With an October election looming, Netanyahu says Israel won't leave Gaza until Hamas surrenders 'all weaponry,' rejecting a plan Hamas still supports, as parallel U.S. standoffs with Iran and a widening Saudi-Houthi conflict leave every Middle East deal stuck. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/netanyahu-rejects-gaza-peace-plan-hamas-disarmament/md)
- [Russia-Ukraine War Escalates With Black Sea Strikes, North Korean Missiles](https://foreigntime.com/article/russia-ukraine-black-sea-strikes-north-korea-missiles): Moscow bombarded Zaporizhzhia with North Korean ballistic missiles while Kyiv hit a Russian naval base nearly 200 miles behind the front line, as both sides push the war beyond its deadlocked trenches and Putin warns Europe over shadow-fleet seizures. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/russia-ukraine-black-sea-strikes-north-korea-missiles/md)
- [Israel Clashes With West Bank Settlers Over Besieged Palestinian Homes](https://foreigntime.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlers-qusra-idf-clash): Settlers surrounded and cut off power to Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra, trapping an American citizen's family inside and drawing a rare 'terrorists' rebuke from the U.S. ambassador before Israeli forces moved in to dismantle the outposts. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlers-qusra-idf-clash/md)
- [Trump Shrinks U.S.-South Korea Military Drills to Appease North Korea](https://foreigntime.com/article/trump-south-korea-military-drills-north-korea-kim): Hours into the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise, Trump ordered it scaled back, citing Seoul's refusal to join the Iran war and his rapport with Kim Jong Un, a reversal that reframes decades of U.S. alliance messaging on the Korean Peninsula. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/trump-south-korea-military-drills-north-korea-kim/md)
- [Burnham Defies Russian Threats Over British Drone Deliveries to Ukraine](https://foreigntime.com/article/burnham-uk-drones-ukraine-russia-threats): Days after Moscow warned Britain would 'pay a higher price' for arming Kyiv with long-range drones, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged the UK's support for Ukraine is '100 percent' and unchanged. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/burnham-uk-drones-ukraine-russia-threats/md)
- [UAE Cuts Off Iran With Sudden Trade and Financial Embargo](https://foreigntime.com/article/uae-iran-trade-financial-embargo-missile-strikes): After absorbing thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks and years of quiet economic ties, the UAE halted all trade and financial transactions with Tehran, a sharp escalation that landed hours after a call between Trump and the UAE's president. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/uae-iran-trade-financial-embargo-missile-strikes/md)
- [U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Race the Clock to Avert Another Tariff War](https://foreigntime.com/article/us-canada-trade-talks-tariffs-deal-carney): With a 72-hour tariff pause running out, Washington and Ottawa are trading concessions on steel, autos, and lumber, and Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is heading into the deal from a position of strength. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/us-canada-trade-talks-tariffs-deal-carney/md)
- [Iran Vows 'Devastating' Retaliation as Bessent Presses China to Cut Ties](https://foreigntime.com/article/iran-sanctions-devastating-retaliation-china-bessent): Tehran is promising a crushing response to Washington's threatened new sanctions package, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly pressures China, Iran's largest oil buyer, to fall in line. Beijing is refusing. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/iran-sanctions-devastating-retaliation-china-bessent/md)
- [A Top Trump Ally in Latin America Is Quietly Courting China](https://foreigntime.com/article/noboa-ecuador-china-visit-trump-ally-belt-and-road): Ecuador's Daniel Noboa has staked his presidency on a close partnership with Washington, but a stalled economy and a second state visit to Beijing show he isn't willing to leave Chinese trade and investment on the table. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/noboa-ecuador-china-visit-trump-ally-belt-and-road/md)
- [Israel and America Agree on Ali Shaath as Gaza's New Leader. Palestinians Are Wary.](https://foreigntime.com/article/ali-shaath-gaza-ncag-israel-trump-technocrat-leader): The engineer tapped to run Gaza's postwar administration wants to push war rubble into the sea within three years, but Palestinians fear the technocratic National Committee he leads is built to make economic recovery a substitute for self-determination. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/ali-shaath-gaza-ncag-israel-trump-technocrat-leader/md)
- [Why Spain's Socialists Are Thriving While Britain's Labour Collapsed](https://foreigntime.com/article/sanchez-starmer-burnham-spain-britain-left-wing-divergence): Pedro Sánchez is entering his eighth year in power on a fragile coalition, while Keir Starmer burned through a historic majority in under two years. A Foreign Policy analysis argues the gap comes down to leadership, not just economics. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/sanchez-starmer-burnham-spain-britain-left-wing-divergence/md)
- [A New Novel Imagines a Flooded Northern Ireland to Confront the Troubles' Unfinished Legacy](https://foreigntime.com/article/few-and-far-between-novel-northern-ireland-troubles-legacy): Jan Carson's new novel Few and Far Between uses an alternate history built around a real 1958 scheme to drain Lough Neagh as a way into Northern Ireland's still-unresolved reckoning with its sectarian past, according to a review in Foreign Policy. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/few-and-far-between-novel-northern-ireland-troubles-legacy/md)
- [A New 824-Page History Argues India's Growth Problem Was Never About Socialism](https://foreigntime.com/article/sixth-of-humanity-review-india-development-kapur-subramanian): A review of Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's A Sixth of Humanity traces India's path from postwar stagnation to a top-five economy, and argues the fiscal and education choices that caused decades of poverty are still driving this year's youth unrest. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/sixth-of-humanity-review-india-development-kapur-subramanian/md)
- [The Taliban's Surprisingly Stable Five Years in Power Are Getting Harder](https://foreigntime.com/article/taliban-afghanistan-five-years-stability-under-threat): Five years after retaking Kabul, the Taliban have held on through repression, a resilient economy, and quiet diplomatic acceptance, but a new armed resistance movement, a resurgent IS-K, and rising tension with Pakistan are testing that stability. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/taliban-afghanistan-five-years-stability-under-threat/md)
- [The Iran War Is Exposing the Limits of What Airpower Alone Can Achieve](https://foreigntime.com/article/iran-conflict-airpower-limits-military-lessons): Six months into the conflict, the U.S. military has shown overwhelming technical dominance over Iran but has not secured any of the political outcomes it set out to achieve, according to a new Foreign Policy analysis. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/iran-conflict-airpower-limits-military-lessons/md)
- [NATO Raised Defense Spending. Its Deterrence Still Hinges on Civilian Resilience.](https://foreigntime.com/article/nato-resilience-whole-of-society-deterrence): A new PwC analysis argues that Ankara's shift toward outcome-based defense contracts only solves half the problem, and that NATO's credibility now depends on whole-of-society resilience it has yet to fund or coordinate. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/nato-resilience-whole-of-society-deterrence/md)
- [France's Fading Leverage in the South Caucasus Signals a Wider Retreat](https://foreigntime.com/article/frances-fading-leverage-south-caucasus-us-pivot): As Washington shifts its allies toward burden-sharing, France is losing ground in a region it once helped mediate, and Armenia's government reshuffle this summer shows how fast that ground is shifting. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/frances-fading-leverage-south-caucasus-us-pivot/md)
- [Evergrande's Fallen Founder Gets Life in Prison as Beijing Closes the Book on China's Property Crisis](https://foreigntime.com/article/evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-life-sentence-china): Hui Ka Yan went from Asia's richest man to a life sentence in a Shenzhen courtroom, a five-year fall that tracks almost exactly with the property crisis his company set off. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/evergrande-founder-hui-ka-yan-life-sentence-china/md)
- [Inside China's Gray Zone Playbook for Taiwan and the South China Sea](https://foreigntime.com/article/chinas-gray-zone-campaign-taiwan-south-china-sea): Beijing prefers pressure it can deny to a war it would have to win outright, and analysts say the coming years are more likely to bring new pretexts for coercion than an outright attack on Taiwan. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/chinas-gray-zone-campaign-taiwan-south-china-sea/md)
- [US Export Controls on Nvidia, AMD and Intel Are Costing More Than Sales, Analysts Say](https://foreigntime.com/article/us-chip-export-controls-nvidia-amd-intel-cost): Washington's chip export controls were built to slow China down, but new results out of Chinese chipmakers suggest the policy may be accelerating the very self-sufficiency it was meant to prevent. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/us-chip-export-controls-nvidia-amd-intel-cost/md)
- [China's Grip on Copper Smelting Echoes Its Rare Earths Playbook, Miners Warn](https://foreigntime.com/article/china-copper-smelting-dominance-rare-earths-repeat): Copper just hit an all-time high price, and the industry's bigger worry is not the price itself but how much of the smelting behind it is now concentrated in Chinese hands. (clean markdown: https://foreigntime.com/article/china-copper-smelting-dominance-rare-earths-repeat/md)

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