Mike Singh quoted in Politico article, “Biden’s First 100 Days in Foreign Policy Are Hamstrung By Trump’s Last 100”
“Trump is hardly the first president to try to cement his legacy with a flurry of last-minute actions. Still, when a president tries to handcuff his successor, that can feed into the notion that U.S. foreign policy is inherently unstable, damaging America’s global reputation in the long run, former U.S.
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in NPR All Things Considered segment, “Returning to the Iran Nuclear Deal Is Essential For Biden’s Foreign Policy Agenda”
“There is a clear desire to make a shift in strategy away from the Middle East and toward competition with rivals like China and Russia. But Michael Singh, who is former President George W. Bush’s top Middle East adviser in the White House, he told me, you know, quote, ‘The
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in Al-Monitor article, “China, Iran Relations Widen Amid Renewed Nuclear Talks”
“China has acted as Iran’s lifeline. Oil imports from Iran to Beijing [have steadily risen] to millions of barrels per day. And the sides are reportedly close to finalizing a 25-year trade and military agreement that will see China invest about $400 billion in Iran’s banking, telecommunication, transport and infrastructure sectors
Read MoreMike Singh writes with Sinan Ulgen in Foreign Policy: “Biden Can’t Avoid Erdogan, but He Can Keep the U.S.-Turkish Relationship on Track”
“When Joe Biden assumes office as U.S. president in late January, one of the thorniest foreign-policy challenges he will inherit is not one of his predecessor’s creation. Indeed, the problem of U.S. relations with Turkey has wrong-footed U.S. administrations from both parties in the past two decades…” Read the full
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in POLITICO article, “Biden Plans A Beefed-up National Security Council”
“Perhaps above all, said Michael Singh, a former George W. Bush administration aide, Biden will have to decide ‘whether he is going to make the NSC the prime mover on all things national security’ as Obama did, or delegate more authority to Cabinet agencies…” Read the full article here: Full
Read MoreMike Singh writes in War on the Rocks: “As Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates Normalize Ties, China Looks on Warily”
“In a world starved for good news, the normalization agreements that Israel recently signed at the White House with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were met with near-universal praise. In a region more often associated with risk, the deals seemed to signal opportunity — for stability, for peace, and
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in Financial Times article, “Bahrain Joins UAE in Normalising Relations with Israel”
“Mike Singh, a former director of Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, said that while Mr. Trump has long been focused on a ‘deal of the century’ between Israelis and Palestinians, administration officials have ‘always felt there was more progress to be made between Israel and US allies
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in Radio Free Europe article, “With Nuclear Deal on The Line, Iran Has Plenty at Stake in the U.S. Election”
“Michael Singh, a managing director at the Washington Institute and former senior director at the National Security Council, said the JCPOA was ‘effectively dead,’ regardless of the outcome of the election…” Read the full article here: Full Article
Read MoreMike Singh writes in The New York Times: “When China Met Iran”
“Leaked news this month that China and Iran had come to the verge of signing a 25-year trade and military partnership agreement struck like a geopolitical storm in Washington — a rising rival of America and a longtime foe joining forces to threaten the United States’s predominant position in the
Read MoreMike Singh quoted in The Washington Post article, “How Trump’s Failed ‘Maximum Pressure’ Tactics Could Inspire a Pre-Election Provocation”
“There is remarkable agreement across the spectrum of Iran experts on what this campaign has achieved: not much. ‘”Maximum pressure” has caused unprecedented economic pain for the Iranian regime, but has not yet resulted in any outcome that advances American interests,’ concluded an analysis by Michael Singh, who was senior
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