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Abdoulaye Maiga, prime minister of Mali, speaks during the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit of the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 8.
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and Xu Jianyi, President of China FAW Group Corporation, shake hands after signing an agreement as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao look on at the Volkswagen factory on April 23, 2012 in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The world’s largest economies will gather in Bali, Indonesia, for the G-20 summit in mid-November. Our expert panel, including Lynn Kuok, Matthew Kroenig and Edward Alden, will consider the... READ MORE
BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 26: A researcher holds a wafer arrayed with carbon nanotubes (CNT) at a laboratory on May 26, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
This article is adapted from Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong (Basic Books, 624 pp., $35, September 2022).
The world’s largest economies will gather in Bali, Indonesia, for the G-20 summit in mid-November. Challenges to address include soaring inflation, unprecedented risks to international ene...Show morergy and food supply chains, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and a global economy edging closer to recession.
Watch a debrief on the summit hosted by FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal, in conversation with Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Lynn Kuok, a senior fellow for Asia-Pacific security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Matthew Kroenig, the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. They will consider the successes and failures of the summit, whether wealthy nations are doing enough to reinvigorate the global economy, and the geopolitical implications of the latest meeting among world leaders.
Though the composition of the U.S. Congress after yesterday’s Midterms is still unclear, trend lines are emerging—and the consequences of the elections will be felt all over the worl...Show mored. Will U.S. support for Ukraine continue apace? Will a beleaguered President Biden get tougher on China and Saudi Arabia? And with the Republican Party itself increasingly splintered, will its more isolationist wing win out?
Tune in as FP’s executive editor, Amelia Lester, and FP’s team of reporters answer your questions about what’s at stake for U.S. foreign policy in the midterms as well as analyze the possible outcomes.
BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 26: A researcher holds a wafer arrayed with carbon nanotubes (CNT) at a laboratory on May 26, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
The Biden administration is increasingly making clear it is intent on slowing down China’s technological rise. Washington has dramatically expanded controls on technology flowing to and fr...Show moreom Beijing by imposing aggressive sanctions targeting China’s chip and semiconductor industry. What impact will these changes have on the broader U.S.-China relationship? Will other nations support Washington’s new approach? How will this impact the global economy?
Watch FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal’s conversation with Jon Bateman, a senior fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Bateman previously served as the director for cyber strategy implementation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Read his essay on U.S.-China decoupling.