List of U.S. State Department articles
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state dept crop Would-Be Trump Official Tries to Whitewash His Pro-Clinton Past
By strong-arming a news site into deleting his past columns critical of Trump.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives to attend a meeting on Syria at the World Conference Center in Bonn, western Germany, February 17, 2017. / AFP / POOL / Oliver Berg (Photo credit should read OLIVER BERG/AFP/Getty Images) For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough
The alliance needs new ideas and fresh energy.
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state crop State Department Official Took ‘Tens of Thousands’ in Gifts From Chinese Spies
Candace Marie Claiborne alleged received tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from Chinese agents she knew to be spies.
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Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images) There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been
Recent history shows that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s plan to create “interim zones of stability” in Syria won’t actually help save civilian lives.
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GettyImages-655697360 Balkan Conspiracy Theories Come to Capitol Hill
A group of GOP senators is spreading false allegations from a shadowy organization and supporting the region’s corrupt and undemocratic forces.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - FEBRUARY 22: (AFP-OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump discusses the federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) Development and Diplomacy Are Instruments of a ‘Peace through Strength’ Foreign Policy
Instead of making slash and burn cuts at State, a top-to-bottom review is needed.
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DUCZE, CYPRUS - MARCH 06: A United Nations metal flag with a bullet hole in it stands on a U.N. peacekeepers' viewing platform near a militarized zone of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) next to the British Soverign Base Area on March 6, 2017 near Duzce, Cyprus. Cyprus has been divided into a Greek south and Turkish north ever since the brief but devastating war of 1974. Since then United Nations peacekeepers have maintained a buffer zone that runs through the capital city of Nicosia and across the entire island to keep the factions apart. In the south the Greek-dominated Republic of Cyprus is internationally-recognized and a member of the European Union, while in the north the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) is recognized only by Turkey, which also has tens of thousands of troops stationed there. Negotiations over possible reunification have made strident progress over the last few years, though they have stalled in recent months. Britain maintains two military bases on the southern part of the island that it controls as soverign territory. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Trump Administration Eyes $1 Billion in Cuts to U.N. Peacekeeping
The White House also targets hundreds of millions in funding for U.N. programs for children and the poor.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes his seat for a meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not in picture) on the sidelines of a gathering of Foreign Ministers of the G20 leading and developing economies at the World Conference Center in Bonn, western Germany, February 17, 2017. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Did Rex Tillerson Misspeak or Intentionally Kowtow to China?
During his visit to Beijing last weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a strange move — adopting Chinese verbiage to characterize the U.S.-China relationship.
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Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson gestures while speaking at a discussion organized by the Economic Club of Washington on the energy innovations that have led to a new era of energy abundance for North America in Washington, DC on March 12, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Tillerson’s Push for Safe Zones in Iraq and Syria Faces Questions, Obstacles
Allies and activists oppose sending refugees back into a war zone
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tillerson crop Tillerson Plan to Skip NATO Meeting Baffles Former Officials
Lawmakers, former officials denounce the move as 'disgraceful.'
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PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 06: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Forces Korea, trucks are seen carrying parts required to set up the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system that had arrived at the Osan Air Base on March 6, 2017 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (Photo by United States Forces Korea via Getty Images) China’s Fear of U.S. Missile Defense Is Disingenuous
Beijing knows that THAAD in South Korea doesn’t pose a military threat to China. Its objects are entirely political.
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k j crop Missiles in North Korea, Protests in Belarus, Intelligence Hearing on The Hill: The Weekend Behind, the Week Ahead
Catch up on all the top news you missed over the weekend.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney takes questions from reporters during a briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mulvaney took questions about President Donald Trump's federal budget blueprint which was released Thursday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Trump’s Budget Blueprint: Pulling Up the Diplomatic Drawbridge
The White House budget plan embodies the administration’s “America First” nationalism, hiking spending on defense and border security while slashing everything else.
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GettyImages-697671 The Swiss Cheese Presidency: Why Trump’s Inability to Fill Key Positions Makes America Weak
The Trump administration's staffing gaps pose serious problems for the United States.
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Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?
China was once a cheerleader for Trump. But now that the president is singing a different tune, that could quickly change.
