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May 14, 2026
Good morning! Today is Thursday, May 14th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. As President Trump lands in Beijing for the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade, Evan Sankey argues the Iran war has quietly become a policy of deprioritizing Asia—and that the administration must engage Taiwan and other first-order political questions, not just renew last year's trade truce. The Senate narrowly defeated a War Powers resolution to halt the Iran war by a 49-to-50 vote, and Harrison Berger reports that some Senate Democrats privately view the war as a…
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