US President Donald Trump’s decision to block ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz presents China with a sticky choice: to accept Trump’s prohibition on trade with Iran, Beijing’s staunch ally, or challenge the closure and turn this Middle East conflict into a duel between nuclear-armed superpowers. China had largely watched the joint US-Israeli war […]
Author Archives: Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams is a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald and an ex-researcher for Human Rights Watch. His book Forsaken: The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East was published by O/R Books. He is currently based in Rome.
