Foreign Policy

Republicans express support for Trump’s China tariffs as president works to assure allies at G-7 meeting

August 25, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As some business groups express concern about President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war with China and the U.S. [...]

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles into sea as nuclear talks remain stalled

August 24, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) North Korea fired a pair of short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean on Saturday, according to South Korean military sources, as [...]

China suspected of flooding U.S. universities with students to access sensitive programs in ‘academic espionage’ campaign

August 23, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Top military, national security, and intelligence officials have repeatedly warned for years that America’s biggest challenger in [...]

Mexico deporting record number of Central Americans, immigration figures show

August 19, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) The Mexican government’s immigration services are reporting that the country has deported a record number of aliens from Central [...]

Iran warns U.S. not to interfere with its tanker as oil cargo destination remains a mystery; considers naval escort

August 19, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Iran is warning the United States not to interfere with a reflagged oil tanker as it mulls a naval escort for the vessel which is carrying [...]

House Democrats considering punishing American, Israeli diplomats after Netanyahu banned anti-Semites from visiting

August 18, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Senior House Democrats are reportedly considering punitive measures against U.S. and Israeli diplomats after Jewish PM Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

Analysis: U.S., China can make a trade deal ‘tomorrow’ if Trump can help Xi Jinping ‘save face’

August 15, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As the trade war between the U.S. and China, the world’s biggest economies, continues, analysts and experts wonder if there will [...]

Border apprehensions drop below 100,000 for first time in months amid tighter U.S.-Mexico-Guatemala cooperation

August 9, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) The number of people crossing illegally into the United States has fallen below 100,000 for the first time in months, according to new [...]

As Trump triples down on China tariffs, administration will offer aid to hard-hit farmers

August 9, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As American soybean farmers continue to suffer major economic losses as part of the fallout of the escalating U.S.-China trade war, the [...]

Tougher Mexican migrant policy means fewer apprehensions as illegal crossings in U.S. drop as well

August 7, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Mexico’s tougher policies aimed at stopping Central American migrants from illegally crossing its territory en route to the United [...]

Trump: If China delays trade deal until after 2020 election, it’s going to be ‘much tougher’ on THEM

July 30, 2019

(NationalSentinel) President Donald Trump has a message for China should Beijing choose to continue dragging out trade negotiations until the 2020 election, hoping that [...]

Why is Rand Paul helping Iran try to get sanctions lifted at a time when POTUS Trump has them on the ropes?

July 19, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) It was bad enough when a former secretary of state, John Kerry, the architect — along with President Obama — of the worst [...]

Battle raging within Trump admin over Iranian nuclear waivers as regime continues its work on the bomb and Congress hampers POTUS

July 13, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Rival factions within the Trump administration are at odds over the State Department’s sanctions waivers that have allowed Iran to [...]

CBP officials accuse Texas Democrat of ‘coaching’ migrants on how to exploit ‘return to Mexico’ loophole

July 6, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have accused the Texas Democrat elected to fill former Rep. Robert “Beto” [...]

Trump’s confidence on trade deal with China following meeting with Xi leads to new DOW future highs

July 1, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) POTUS Donald Trump told Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson in a weekend interview following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that [...]