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Adam Tooze answers listener questions on China.

The Chinese navy and maritime militia are using water cannons, laser dazzlers, and harassing tactics to try to push smaller nations out of the area.

As another multilateral forum issued a watered-down statement, Russia and North Korea met to deepen military ties.

An outbreak of Arab-Kurdish violence threatens to upset the delicate balance that kept the Islamic State and other U.S. adversaries at bay.

While international backers of Pinochet’s 1973 takeover increasingly admit blame, Chile’s resurgent far right is bringing defense of dictatorship back into the mainstream.

The bloc’s divide over China pushes members to go their own way.

Rahul Gandhi is trying—and mostly failing—to replicate Narendra Modi’s rock-star status among Indians abroad.

No one man should have all that power, U.S. lawmakers say.

Accusing a NATO ally of helping Russia could mortally damage U.S.-Turkish relations.

Force won’t get to the root of the country’s crisis. But smart monetary policy will.

Elected officials, not electorates, are the primary barrier to redistributive policies that would benefit the world’s poorest countries.

A deeply flawed document violates basic human rights.

Economists are rethinking East Asia’s “miracle” as the Washington Consensus falters.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu describes his country’s efforts to deter a Chinese invasion.

Not a whole lot. But from Russia’s war to climate change and the global south, changes are afoot.