Hacker News with Generative AI: Foreign Policy

Trump team 'survey' for overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears (nature.com)
A growing number of researchers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada who receive US funding have been asked to declare their institution’s links to China and whether their projects comply with US government ideology.
Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained (euronews.com)
The German foreign ministry has updated its travel advice for Germans travelling to the US after three German nationals were denied entry and detained as they tried to enter.
The US Has Invoked Alien Enemies Act (whitehouse.gov)
Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.
U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine (wsj.com)
The U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a good-faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to a White House official.
Madman Theory (wikipedia.org)
The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response.[1]
Kremlin says US foreign policy pivot 'largely coincides with our vision' (theguardian.com)
The Kremlin said on Sunday that the dramatic pivot in the foreign policy of the US “largely” coincides with its own vision, with Donald Trump described as having “common sense”.
The Rise and Fall of America's Response to Foreign Election Meddling (lawfaremedia.org)
The administration is dismantling U.S. capacity against foreign interference despite the urgency of the work being done.
Trump warns of doubling tax rates on foreign nationals and firms in the US (livemint.com)
United States President Donald Trump has alleged “discrimination” against American companies by other countries and threatened to double tax rates for foreign nationals and companies in the US, as per a report by the Financial Times.
Bill Banning Foreign Adversaries Setting Up Shop Near Critical Areas Advances (cowboystatedaily.com)
The Senate Appropriations Committee gave a unanimous thumbs up Thursday to a bill that would ban foreign adversaries from setting up near critical infrastructure in Wyoming.
Domestic issues pile pressure on Iran's president amid foreign policy setbacks (theguardian.com)
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes heavy fines and loss of access to public services to any woman not wearing the hijab.
Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right (foreignpolicy.com)
For more than half a century, Noam Chomsky has been arguably the world’s most persistent, uncompromising, and intellectually respected critic of contemporary U.S. foreign policy. In a steady stream of books, articles, interviews, and speeches, he has repeatedly sought to expose Washington’s costly and inhumane approach to the rest of the world, an approach he believes has harmed millions and is contrary to the United States’ professed values. As co-author Nathan J.
Turkish Journalists Are Now 'Telling the Xinjiang Story Well' for Beijing (jamestown.org)
Türkiye could be a key player in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) strategy of coopting foreign journalists in order to create a more favorable image of its policies in Xinjiang.
FBI Resumes Communication with Facebook, X and Others on Foreign Disinformation (nytimes.com)
Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence runs disinformation campaigns (theins.ru)
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse (theguardian.com)
America's Regime Change Wars Created Europe's Refugee Crisis (cato.org)