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China left as observer as tensions rise on Korean Peninsula

China’s foreign minister recently likened the U.S. and North Korea to two speeding trains hurtling toward each other, an analogy that would seem to place China in the role of helpless bystander. And indeed, while tensions have risen, Beijing has been frustrated by its declining influence over the Korean Peninsula. China “has a grandstand seat but no control,” said University of Virginia China scholar Brantly Womack.
Brantly Womack
Salon

Historians weigh in on Trump’s first 100 days

Barbara Perry — who is director of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia — told NPR that Trump doesn’t even qualify as an “entry-level president.” “I think that’s too generous,” Perry insisted. “Unless he would be an intern, he would not have a position in the White House — with no educational experience, no military experience, no government, no political experience, most of it was running for president.”
Barbara Perry