As the U.S. competes for essential tech metals, calls for establishing a Critical Minerals Czar (or special envoy or task force) are plentiful and palpable, and this should be a priority of the Trump
Revelations from Munich Security Conference show opportunities for Beijing, but expectations must be tempered.
The journalist probed the vice president's decision to antagonize U.S. allies in Europe and meet the leader of Germany's far-right party.
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
At the Munich Security Conference, J.D. Vance confronted European leaders over their attacks on free speech, calling out their hypocrisy and challenging them to re-evaluate their values and
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance used his first major speech as vice president to lambast European politicians for suppressing free speech, losing control of immigration and refusing to work with hard-right parties in government.
One of Vance’s key claims for the decline of free speech in Europe left many UK observers dumbfounded. He rebuked the Scottish government for sending out letters in October 2024 cautioning citizens that, in his words, “even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law”.
The US Vice President’s bruising address to European leaders shocked his audience in Munich, but experts say it’s more likely it was aimed at pleasing his audience at home.
In an address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Mr Vance warned Europe's greatest threat came not from China or Russia but from within. He said free speech and democratic ...
The US Vice-President accused European politicians of what he said was a fear of their own people. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Vance's speech came after he visited Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp, and just before Germany's national elections.