Michael Auslin, Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia, gives a talk titled "Spying, Stealing, and Subordination: Dealing with the New China Rules."

President Trump will decide before May 12 whether to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, instead of certifying to Congress that remaining in the deal is in the interests of the U.S.

Supporters of the Iran deal have no shortage of reasons for president Donald Trump to stick with it: The deal appears to be succeeding in its aim of forcing Iran to cut its nuclear stockpile. All of the closest US allies back the deal (except Israel and Saudi Arabia). Backtracking on promises would damage the US’s chance of a deal with North Korea.

Far be it from me to say whether Donald Trump’s diplomacy on the Korean peninsula entitles him to join Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama among our recent Nobel Peace Prize laureates. But Condoleezza Rice is surely correct to suggest that the Trump administration—including ex-secretary of state Rex Tillerson—deserves credit for the series of events currently playing out on that Cold War battlefront.