Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- This was even as the world's biggest nuclear power, the US, was busy financing and equipping the world's 'rogue' nuclear-armed state, its protege Israel, to continue bombarding and starving Gaza in violation of its own 'ceasefire'. The UN complains that food and other long-delayed essential supplies are yet being blocked by Israel.

US President Donald Trump's earth-shaking (literally, since bomb tests are mostly underground) announcement was made in South Korea on the eve of the annual summit meeting of the 23-nation Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) group hosted in the city of Gyeongju over last weekend. The US President got to South Korea's capital, Seoul, in time for talks scheduled with President Xi befor...