President Donald Trump鈥檚 withdrawal from dozens of global organizations 鈥 many focused on climate issues and human rights 鈥 was swiftly condemned by U.S. allies. One power that increasingly has stepped into the leadership breach is China.
Clayton Collins
Episodes of force projection, in different forms, were the big attention-getters in the news this week. Sarah Matusek continues to report from Minneapolis after feeding yesterday鈥檚 Monitor story on fallout from the fatal ICE shooting there. Watch for more next week. And on our 鈥淲hy We Wrote This鈥 podcast, Howard LaFranchi talks about last weekend鈥檚 U.S. action in Venezuela and about how he brings important context to happenings throughout the hemisphere. Read or listen here.
Howard also writes our lead story today. Let鈥檚 get right to it.
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