Throat-Cutting Diplomacy: EU Warned of Perilous Shift Toward China: In a stark and chilling warning, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent didn’t mince words when he told European leaders that aligning with China over the United States would be akin to cutting their own throat. His message, delivered from behind the cold podium of a press briefing, wasn’t just policy talk—it was a shot across the Atlantic.
The remark came just hours after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking on a diplomatic tour in Asia, suggested that the European Union should reconsider its relationship with China. With U.S. trade policy lurching in unpredictable directions—driven by President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs—Sanchez floated the idea of closer cooperation with Beijing.
But Bessent’s response was blunt—and dark.
Behind the Barred Windows: How Afghanistan’s War on Drugs Became a Battle for Souls : If you walk through Kabul today, it might look cleaner than it did a few years ago. The parks once filled with men sprawled under the sun, the bridges littered with used needles and broken glass — they’re mostly empty now. Kids are playing again in Shahr-e-Naw Park. But behind the locked doors and barred windows of the city’s rehab centers, another battle rages — one far more complicated than it looks from the outside.

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