Outreach. A group of delegates from European countries held a closed-door meeting with Trump advisor James Carafano earlier this week to make a concerted ...
BEIJING -- “Trump wins!” Nov. 9 at 1 o'clock p.m., Beijing time, hours before mainstream U.S. media could confidently call the 2016 Presidential election for Donald ...
On November 17, President-elect Donald Trump is set to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump Tower in New York. This first quasi-summit with ...
South Korean democracy is facing what may be the political scandal of the century. Over the last several weeks, it has been revealed that President ...
Donald J. Trump, President-elect of the United States, spent much of his antagonistic campaign blaming China for many of America’s economic ills, and repeatedly making ...
For years, American allies in East and Southeast Asia have been quietly preparing to rely less on the United States for regional stability and security. ...
Donald Trump isn’t the only president-elect sparking controversy this week. The International Criminal Police Organization elected a former Chinese paramilitary police force deputy as its ...
On Nov. 8, following an protracted campaign rife with personal attacks, Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become President-elect of the United States. Despite ...
Even before the final votes were counted Tuesday night, the America’s closest allies struggled to come to terms with a U.S. election that delivered the presidency to ...
The election of Donald Trump will be a disaster for anyone who cares about human rights, U.S. global leadership, and media freedom. That means it’s ...
With endorsements like these, one might ask, who needs enemies? Last week, as an enervating U.S. election race reached its final stretch, Republican nominee Donald ...
The United States, China’s largest trading partner but also its greatest geopolitical rival, faces an election that threatens domestic instability. A Donald Trump victory would ...
BEIJING — The U.S. Presidential election on Nov. 8 will be more closely observed in China than any in history. That’s because Chinese people have more ...
U.S. President Barack Obama is desperate to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal among a dozen Pacific nations, before he leaves office. Japan ...
On Nov. 1, above review stands filled with dignitaries and aviation enthusiasts, two arrow-shaped aircraft roared low over Airshow China, the biennial exhibition in the ...
In late October, wearing a dark suit and a maroon tie, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before an audience of thousands of veterans, soldiers, and ...
Korean President Park Geun-hye is mired in another scandal, adding to a list of controversies since her election in December 2012. An investigation by media giant JTBC uncovered evidence ...
LINXIA — Driving through the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province, in China’s northwest, minarets puncture the sky every few minutes. Many rise out of ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to pull out of the Paris climate accord, an agreement that comes into effect this Friday among almost ...
Medical professionals take note: Lasers and farts don’t mix well, according to a formal hospital report released last week in Japan. On April 15, a ...
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German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has an interesting several days ahead of him. Last week, Germany withdrew its support for the sale of semiconductor firm ...
For every time you may have traveled internationally and been irritated by some visa problem you encountered along the way, there are people who had ...
George Brady, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, was preparing to be honored by Czech President Milos Zeman at a state dinner this month when he got ...
Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines since June, visited China last week and signaled his interest in shifting Manila’s allegiance away from Washington toward Beijing. While ...
If you’re the kind of voter who wants the government staying out of your personal business, here’s some free advice: Don’t move to Uzbekistan. Especially ...
Almost eight years after President Barack Obama pledged in a landmark speech in Prague to seek "a world without nuclear weapons," U.S. diplomats are mounting ...
International relations theorists of a “realist” persuasion like to claim that states are rational actors pursuing their strategic interests in an anarchic world where power ...
Chinese live-streaming is a bizarre and rapidly growing phenomenon that feels strangely necessary. It’s home to countless young women with impossibly long eyelashes and painted, ...
Ah yes, IKEA: the Swedish furniture giant known for its warehouses full of inexpensive furniture, Swedish meatballs, and...serial-dating Chinese seniors? In recent years, IKEA cafeterias ...
Since he took office on June 30, Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte -- also known as “Duterte Harry” -- has earned international notoriety for a ...
Meet and greet. President Barack Obama will huddle again with his national security team on Friday to go over the administration’s military and diplomatic ...
JOHANNESBURG — Ms. Zhu does not seem particularly villainous. In her breezy Johannesburg office, encircled by neat stacks of newspapers, the petite 30-year-old from the southern ...
China said Wednesday that South Korea needs to stay “reasonable and cool-headed” even after Chinese fishermen rammed and sank a South Korean coast guard speedboat ...
See something, say something -- even a child practicing religion? That’s what China is telling citizens in the majority-Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. New education ...
Transparency; sunlight; public oversight. These may not be words one associates with China’s judicial system, with its publicized history of sham trials, forced confessions, and backchannel Communist ...
The Philippines’ president has heaped abuse on the United States for weeks, but now Rodrigo Duterte is backing up his words with action. His defense ...
[audio mp3="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/160928_thebackstory_mixdown.mp3"][/audio] In the fall of 2016, hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese assembled on U.S. campuses and classrooms to kick off the new school ...
The North Korea problem. The Obama administration been quietly debating whether to trigger harsh sanctions against North Korea that would target Chinese companies doing ...
The Obama administration is heatedly debating whether to trigger harsh sanctions against North Korea that would target Chinese companies doing business with the hermit regime, ...
On Thursday, the White House launched a last-ditch, three-pronged effort to get Congress to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership before President Barack Obama leaves office. ...
At a recent White House meeting, President Barack Obama assembled an eclectic cast of characters: the CEO of IBM, one of the largest corporations in ...
Tensions between the United States and China are high. Disputes in the South China Sea, cyber-espionage, and the continuing U.S. pivot to Asia to counter ...
A generation ago, many people would have scoffed at the notion that a half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese woman — going by her Chinese-sounding first name “Renho” — ...
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its forecast for the U.S. economy while warning of “persistent stagnation” both at home and abroad if there’s ...