A map shows Chinese investment in ports around the world and numbers 8 ports that researchers consider most likely locations for Chinese naval bases: Hambantota, Sri Lanka; Bata, Equatorial Guinea; Gwadar, Pakistan; Kribi, Cameroon; Ream, Cambodia; Luganville, Vanuatu; Nacala, Mozambique; and Nouakchott, Mauritania.
University students display a flag of the Communist Party of China to mark the party's 100th anniversary during an opening ceremony of the new semester in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on September 10, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (not pictured) speak to the media on the second day of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12.
Striking Hollywood writers hold signs while picketing in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The signs say: "Writers Guild on strike! DGA in solidarity" and "Pay the writers, you AI-holes!" and "Just look at what happened to the music industry."
A transport vehicle moves a camouflage, armored military vehicle across a bridge on a partly cloudy day. Beside the vehicle is a barricade topped with a sign with red and black text in Korean.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man watches from inside a bus as people demonstrate against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bill in Jerusalem on July 20.
A participant wearing a rainbow-colored wig holds up a sign reading, in English, “Queer rights are human rights” during a pride parade in Cyprus. Other participants mill about in the background against a sunny sky.
A black and white print overlaid with a red star shows Russian Tsar Peter the Great holding up a glass in a toast after beheading one of the Streltsy rebels in front of his nobles. A headless figure rests on the ground and other people surround the tsar with lifted glasses.
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Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer stand in front of an apocalyptic pink and orange clouded desert landscape in a photo illustration for the two movies. Barbie wears her iconic black-and-white-striped swimsuit and sunglasses, and Oppenheimer a period hat and suit with cigarette in hand.
A member of Chinese police officer wearing a mask, uniform, and hat stands guard in front of a blue and yellow starred flag and a sign reading "European Union" in Beijing. In front of him is a barred barrier.
The book cover for Calling Ukraine by Johannes Lichtman shows an illustration of two phones connected by their cords in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag.
A photo collage illustration shows indicted leaders from around the world including U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Ministor Silvio Berlusconi, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, South African President Jacob Zuma, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Transparent handcuffs swing in the background against a a tick-mark lineup texture.
Celil Turan stands amid tall dry grass on the snowy shore of Storsjon Lake in Sweden. He wears a heavy jacket and is seen in profile looking into the distance.
The Biden administration has made it a point to focus on investing in the middle class—even when considering foreign policy and trade. The White House has poured money into initiatives suc...Show moreh as the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act to encourage domestic production and job creation. As a member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of his Invest in America Cabinet, Heather Boushey is one of the primary intellectual architects of the U.S. approach to inequality, growth, and job creation.
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Boushey will join FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a wide-ranging discussion on the U.S. economy. FP subscribers are encouraged to send in questions in advance.
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna has a proposal for improving the most important relationship in the world. A member of the House select committee on China, Khanna says Washington needs to rebalance its ...Show moreeconomic relationship with Beijing. Khanna’s plan includes reducing trade deficits and tensions, improving communication, and bolstering deterrence.
But how can such a plan work when domestic politics on both sides seem in favor of tougher rhetoric and policy? Khanna joined FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal for an in-depth discussion about not only China, but also Ukraine, U.S. national security priorities, trade policy, and more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has what must be the most difficult job in the world. At last week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, he couldn’t help but express disappointment...Show more that the security alliance wasn’t able to offer Kyiv a guaranteed pathway to membership. After reportedly being chided for his tone, Zelensky then switched to effusively praising NATO for its support. And then, once he had managed to balance diplomacy with the demands of war, he found himself managing a different narrative, this time to a domestic audience: He put out the message that Ukraine had gotten enough positives out of the summit, even though he surely wanted more.
Kyiv’s sense of urgency stems from the state of play on the battlefield. Ukraine’s counteroffensive, now underway for several weeks, has been slower than expected in part because of how entrenched Russia’s military is, and how it has strewn large swaths of land with deadly mines. Kyiv also wishes it could have been able to take advantage of the recent mutiny by the Wagner group, a dangerous mercenary outfit run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former loyalist of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose whereabouts are now unknown.
Where is the war headed? Will Wagner’s forces reemerge on the battlefield? And has Putin been weakened by the most public mutiny in his time in power? For answers, FP’s Ravi Agrawal spoke with Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow and the director of the trans-Atlantic security program at the Center for a New American Security.
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