I’m very excited to share with you details from my week-long trip to Israel to participate in Israel Hayom’s conference on the U.S.-Israel relationship. I’ve had the privilege of visiting many places throughout the world, but Israel will always hold a special place in my heart. The United States and Israel have long shared a […] READ MORE
It’s time for the world to wake up to the global threat that is China. For a long time, many political leaders subscribed to the view that as China developed economically it would embrace democracy. This theory was called “convergence theory.” American foreign policy regarding China followed this theory. We supported China’s efforts to modernize; […] READ MORE
It’s here! Many of you know that I’ve been working on a book about my time as governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. While the book isn’t set to come out until November, we got to see the cover for the first time today! I thought a lot about the title […] READ MORE
As Ambassador to the United Nations, I traveled to Colombia, right up to the border with Venezuela. I stood on the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in Cucuta, watching streams of Venezuelan people fleeing the only home they had ever known. I saw hunger, pain, illness, and desperation. Behind them, they left a once-rich country shuddering […] READ MORE
An often misattributed quote to Albert Einstein defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that account, the Iran nuclear deal was insane. But now leading politicians are dipping their toes back into the insanity well, pledging to revive the Iran deal. Perhaps they need a refresher course on […] READ MORE
