The Irish Navy’s small fleet of warships may be named for celebrated poets and playwrights, but its mission is anything but whimsical, as a record seizure of cocaine from a cargo ship showed.
The Treasury secretary laid out a vision in which the United States could continue cooperating economically with China despite what she described as acute security threats.
Ahead of a meeting of G20 finance ministers, the Treasury secretary offered a dark assessment of Russia’s economy and warned China of the consequences of helping Moscow skirt U.S. sanctions.
In a private session, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said the Russians were “complicit in Putin’s atrocities,” according to remarks shared by a U.S. official.