An election billboard in Tel Aviv on Feb. 3, 2019, shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with U.S. President Donald Trump. Netanyahu has emphasized his close ties with Trump as he seeks reelection on April 9.
On the Record This is no time to joke around. Being a president and commander in chief is not a game. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, on comedian, actor and leading presidential contender Volodymyr Zelenskiy On Our Radar Taiwan Provocations in Play. We'll be watching the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act on April 10 to see whether the Trump administration decides to use the symbolic occasion to dispatch a Cabinet-level official to Taipei. This would add to a series of escalatory moves by the United States and China, including the United States advancing discussions over the sale of F-16s to Taiwan and a rare incursion by Chinese fighter jets into Taiwanese airspace earlier this week. U.S. Pushback in the South China Sea. We're starting to see more meaningful U.S. moves to deter China's military expansion in the South China Sea.
