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Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak
Authorities are covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.

What Geert Wilders Wants in Europe
The Dutch far-right leader, and national election winner, plans to stay in the EU—but shape it in his image.

Will the World’s Biggest Emitters Finally Play Nice at COP28?
It’s time to stop fighting totemic battles that suck the energy out of the climate room.

Hamas’s Political Leaders Aren’t in Charge
The group’s leadership in exile has taken a back seat to its officials in Gaza.
Asia & the Pacific

The ICC Should Prosecute Taliban Leaders
China

The Masterminds
Middle East & Africa

What’s Stopping Egypt From Stepping Up in Gaza?
Europe

Populist Rage Gives Dutch Far Right a Worrying Shot at Power
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A New Multilateralism
How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.
NATO’s Remarkable Revival
But the bloc’s future could look very different from its past.
Weekend Reads

The Song and Dance of American Secrecy
Espionage law hasn’t changed much since William Howard Taft—yet recent presidents have wielded it as a cudgel more than ever before.

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America Is a Heartbeat Away From a War It Could Lose
Global war is neither a theoretical contingency nor the fever dream of hawks and militarists.

The West Should Give Up the Battle of Narratives
The Western world has misunderstood what the global south really wants.

Why Xi Was All Smiles With Biden
The Chinese president’s strong-arm diplomacy hasn’t worked.

What Was Hamas Thinking?
The Oct. 7 attack was the culmination of a strategic shift to challenge the movement’s containment.
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Historian Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University’s Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies, will join FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss potential solutions to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Foreign Policy’s Holiday Book List
Our columnists and staff writers recommend their top reads for the end of the year.
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How China and the U.S. Are Competing on Trade
Most big economies are inextricably tied to both Washington and Beijing.

King of the Dammed
Turkish President Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure projects are enriching construction companies while reshaping his country’s waterscape for the worse.