China

The security of clean energy is easier to manage than the security of oil.

A German politician’s ties to a Chinese influence network are part of a pattern across Central and Eastern Europe.

One department now oversees everything from religion to winter sports to influence operations.

The Biden administration has been laying the groundwork for a big meeting with Xi Jinping.

Inside the world of China’s richest players.

Washington’s key diplomatic assets have become a political bargaining chip.

Two detained former executives from developer China Evergrande Group won’t be the only scapegoats.

Beijing’s censorship has pernicious effects on artists and educational institutions—but abandoning all cultural ties would do more harm than good.

Local officials are inflexible about implementing Beijing’s orders.

It may be in their own self-interest.

A new inquiry may expose Beijing’s reach in Ottawa.

Implying China mostly uses ethnically Chinese assets is both wrong and dangerous.

The idea of emerging power centers is popular but wrong—and could lead to serious policy mistakes.

A recent book makes the case for collaboration in an increasingly competitive industry.

Ahead of a presidential election, debate in Buenos Aires reveals the mounting challenges of multi-alignment.

Beijing’s extensive infrastructure projects don’t seem to be translating into political clout.

Beijing’s global maritime operations double as intelligence-gathering outposts.

The disappearance of Li Shangfu seems to be part of a cycle of paranoia for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

World leaders need to care about fish as much as they do about semiconductors.

The actual number could be more than double the current Western estimate.

The Europeans have far more to lose than the United States from curbing ties.

And it should stop trying.

Recent strides in chipmaking and artificial intelligence show Beijing’s post-export control world taking shape. 

Beijing’s representatives are always scared they could be the next to vanish.

Embedded with U.S. forces in the Pacific, I saw the dilemmas of deterrence firsthand.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 9: An earthquake devastates Morocco, Kim Jong Un leaves Pyongyang for a key summit, and a French official is arrested abroad.

Adam Tooze answers listener questions on China.

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

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

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

The Sept. 30 runoff winner will favor either India or China.

The son of Cambodia’s long-serving prime minister will face challenges to his leadership from powerful political families.

An espionage case involving a parliamentary aide comes at a bad time for the Conservative Party.

Over the past two years, China has enacted some of the world’s earliest and most sophisticated rules for AI.

Foreign Policy's Fall 2023 Issue: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done.

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

The bond has been decades in the making, but Russia’s war in Ukraine has tightened their embrace.

India will tout the meeting as a victory, but the bloc remains deeply divided.

The United States’ and Canada’s chief cyberdefenders talk adversaries and AI.

The semiconductor and its near-divine creation story.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 2: A new development in Guatemala’s election, China’s charm offensive, and African leaders’ call to the international community.

The United States has committed to keeping the peace but isn’t doing enough to stop the war.

His foundation is shifting away from Europe, while his own approach to China has hardened.

China has a fifth of the world’s population but just 9 percent of its arable land—and that bit is increasingly underwater.

Princeton University’s G. John Ikenberry on alliances and the new world order.

Putin’s weaponry runs on advanced electronic components obtained from a hidden international market.

As the economy declines, the CCP leans heavily on the army.

“We are competing with each other in what has become a pure rat race.”

To withstand threats from China’s economic troubles, Xi stays focused on security.

Policy mistakes have mired the country in “Xi-flation.”

The Chinese leader’s absence from the summit in New Delhi raises questions about political affairs in Beijing.

With U.S. military superiority in Asia no longer a given, defense planners need a different strategy.

China’s EV industry is ascendant everywhere—except the U.S. Is that about to change?

The group’s countries share one concern—the growing use of U.S. sanctions to restrict trade and investment globally. 

The last international agreement on digital crime was in 2001. Why are experts so worried about this one?

Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies.

The bloc’s new members include countries New Delhi is keen to expand ties with.

The absence of foreigners in the country is a symptom of China’s restrictive, security-driven view of the world.

New additions to the bloc from Africa are linked by their opposition to a Western-dominated financial system.

State-supported anger in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima wastewater release follows a nationalist script.

But it is a warning shot for the West to end its strategic slumber in the global south.

Pacific nations are bearing the brunt of the new cold war.

Three of Washington’s most beloved residents are heading back home, ending an era amid frostiness in U.S.-China relations.

The world’s decentralized internet is coming under competition.

The collapse of a landmark agreement would deal another blow to already fraught U.S.-China research collaborations.

The successful lunar mission, coming on the heels of Russian failure, could accelerate a long-running space race.

The buzzword is everywhere, but defining the concept of U.S.-China de-risking isn’t so easy.

The post-COVID generation has lost faith in the system.

Investors and the Chinese public alike are losing faith in Beijing’s ability to stave off a serious downturn.

Amid a stalemate at the border, it’s clear that Xi Jinping still has the upper hand.

A recent report on the solar industry’s connections to Xinjiang shows mixed results.

Americans and Chinese have to rehumanize each other in terms of the way we conceive of our problems and engage.

The logic of reducing dependence always ends in a downward spiral.

Experts assess the country’s faltering economy.

New tech restrictions are limited—but still escalatory.

The global south is hungry for an alternative to the Western-dominated order, but BRICS may not be up to the task.

Preventing catastrophe is now as much about sticks as it is about carrots.

Sen. Tim Scott has been called soft on China. That doesn’t convince the base, and he’s enlisted hawks to toughen him up.

At least 5,000 foreigners are in Chinese prisons—many for political reasons.

A small state in India’s northeast is experiencing deadly ethnic conflict.

The Biden administration’s issues-based approach to working with China was misguided from the start.

Beijing’s attempts to encircle New Delhi are being systematically reversed.

New restrictions on U.S. investments in high-tech sectors follow a trend of foreign firms fading out.

The Florida governor looks to correct his slide in the polls with a major China speech.

Tokyo successfully built alternative supply chains after tensions rose.

A new campaign is blurring the lines of what’s implicated in forced labor.

Personnel are secondary in a Xi-dominated system.

The decision to protect Beijing by diverting water prompts widespread anger in Hebei province.

Heather Boushey defends the administration’s industrial policy approach.

It all depends on the answers to these five questions.

Why Rome's decision is being seen as a 'major humiliation' for Beijing.

Mediation offers from China aren’t made in good faith.

Most global powers with a military presence or financial stake in the country stand to lose from instability—and that could put pressure on the military junta.

The apparent purge comes amid a renewed crackdown on corruption in the military.

Silicon Valley’s congressman on how to reset the U.S.-China relationship.

The policy has tried to address everything from the climate crisis to the rivalry with China.

So-called everything apps fail outside of China—and aren’t doing great there.

Beijing is choosing repression over religious diplomacy.

Beijing has learned to use Russian-style disinformation.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s reforms, which were meant to usher in a new era for the key Central Asian country, appear to have stalled.

Crackdowns against gender and sexual minorities are terrifying activists.

Are NATO, Russia, and China about to play a new Great Game in the Arctic? Don’t hold your breath.

Here are the top destinations that might be next.

Embargoes have unintended consequences—and would hurt China more than the West.

A debate on whether Beijing’s economic woes are temporary or terminal.

Beijing officially replaced Qin Gang this week, but it’s not likely to shake the system.

China is in a far worse position than when he took office.

Is economic war between the world’s two biggest economies inevitable?

When it comes to increasing its security footprint abroad, Beijing is facing a conundrum in reconciling Maoist doctrine with contemporary reality.

Speculation about Qin Gang only reflects the Chinese Communist Party’s obsession with internal secrecy.

The disputed Doklam plateau is a pressure point for both regional powers. Beijing is moving in.

Washington’s Asia-Pacific partners are a building block for a stronger order.

A major discovery could have transformative industrial potential.

Robert Lighthizer wants total decoupling from China—without thinking through the consequences.

Changes to the platform have systematically amplified authoritarian state propaganda.

Modi’s party is intent on demonizing Nehru, the country’s first prime minister. A new book adds nuance to the debate.

Here’s why that spells bad news for Washington.

The Apple supplier’s sudden reversal reveals some of the private-sector obstacles to New Delhi’s tech ambitions.

The U.N.’s oldest agency is taking on the world’s newest technology.

Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water into the ocean is heating up tensions in East Asia.

China is by far the world’s biggest polluter. But when it comes to action, its government is in a bind.

NATO’s former secretary-general on the case for arming Ukraine and what to expect at the Vilnius summit.

Grounding DJI products is already causing severe issues.

The first high-profile departure from China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says it is dominated by CCP operatives and Beijing’s foreign-policy objectives.

The tech giant crossed a major threshold this past week with a $3 trillion valuation.

New Delhi and its partners are inching together to balance Beijing.

Beijing’s export restrictions on two metals may not be a death blow, but they are likely to serve as a warning shot.

Canberra’s diplomatic maneuverings can’t undo fundamental differences.

Paul Scharre expands on his FP cover essay.

Technologist Dan Wang on the impact of U.S. sanctions on Beijing.

Beijing’s strategy isn’t always black and white—except when it is.

Desperate to diversify away from Beijing, Washington is ramping up efforts to jump-start its struggling domestic industry.

For Beijing, last weekend’s mutiny against Vladimir Putin was a cautionary tale.

Xi feels vindicated over Putin’s style of governance—but has made a bad bet on the Russian leader.

Beijing has hard choices ahead as labor advantages slip away.

Washington can benefit from Beijing’s soft-power failures.

Potential instability in Moscow is inconvenient for Putin’s partners in Beijing.

Extremists are threatening the delicate attempt to find a new normal.

Panic and fear should not drive U.S. foreign policy.

Four inconvenient truths make this scenario unlikely.

Washington keeps trying to play catch-up in the rare-earth game with China. It’s losing ground.

Enlargement would be a sign not of the group’s strength, but of China’s growing influence.

Young people have been trained into competition and hopelessness.

The global south’s debts have reached alarming levels, and Beijing is tightening the screws.

Bilateral constraints haven’t gotten in the way of rapidly deepening ties.

COVID-19 has left many Chinese risk-averse when it comes to their finances.

Antony Blinken’s frosty reception demonstrates the limits of Washington’s China strategy.

Success isn’t just staying ahead of China.

Striving parents once saw it as the language of the future, but attitudes to school immersion programs in the U.S. are changing.

A strategic partnership of two great democracies will counter the rising influence of techno-authoritarians.

The expulsion of journalists shows how far the relationship has deteriorated.

In great-power competition there is no such thing as minding one’s own business.

It’s in Washington’s interest to make the best possible use of Moscow’s barbaric folly.

Chris Miller explains why it’s so difficult to make high-end semiconductors—and how a war over Taiwan could induce a global crisis.

Washington plans to rejoin, but the nature of the organization may play to Beijing’s strengths.

Ethnic violence in India’s remote northeast could have repercussions on the border with China—and beyond.

Chinese-linked firms went on a spree of deals in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.

Washington needs to take AI investment out of the hands of private companies.

Inside the debate on how to think about the U.S.-China rivalry.

Washington missed the boat to shape the global maritime order. Beijing is stepping in.

It’s not just Putin who has re-embraced nuclear threats. The U.S. and China are also cracking open the door.

A new report warns China has some big advantages over the U.S.

“We shouldn’t expect coherence on China policy when the United States is inherently incoherent on it.”

A Cold War crouch is inimical to a free, open, and flourishing society.

A Luftwaffe scandal underlines Europe’s lack of seriousness about military threats.

Mismatched perceptions are leading China to rebuff the Biden administration’s outreach.

Biden’s former top tech policymaker explains how guardrails around technology should work.

The lack of a long-term vision keeps Washington’s China policies confused.

The AI chip company’s value has tripled in less than a year.

China, Russia, and their autocratic friends are leading another epic clash over the world’s largest landmass.

A new book overplays the domestic roots of Sino-U.S. confrontation and underestimates its geopolitical logic.

The world’s two largest economies are walking a tightrope between bad blood and good business.

Signaling neediness to an adversary has never been effective.

There is less to Beijing’s security gains in the Pacific than meets the eye.

So-called fence-sitters are rejecting zero-sum geopolitical binaries in favor of multi-alignment.

As Russia and China grow closer, Central Asian leaders don’t have as much leverage—or independence—as they once did.

U.S. fears are not only irrational—they’re a potential self-fulfilling prophecy.

Beijing is blowing up its relationships by backing Russia.

Personal and political violence are intermixed in authoritarian societies.

A policy shift toward economic engagement with Beijing seems to be underway in the White House.

After years of human rights abuses, Beijing wants Han visitors in the region.

Beijing may be an appealing partner, but that doesn’t mean the region is breaking with Moscow.

The energy transition depends on building partnerships with African states.

The world’s second-largest economy has a historically unique economic status.

Despite a strong foothold during the Cold War, Washington has since fumbled on the continent.

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova on convincing the rest of the world to stand on the right side of history.

Can Washington assemble an international coalition to block tech investments in China?

Record youth unemployment is causing a rethink of education’s value.

The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative would hurt Beijing, too.

Beijing’s refusal to talk to Washington is part of a war of attrition against U.S. influence.

The closure of a Beijing advocacy group reflects a gradual trend under Xi.

Coercive labor is getting less visible, but more intense.

Foxconn founder Terry Gou will be hoping his pro-China message finds more takers than it did in 2020. 

An isolated Russia is turning to China for help in the north.

The greenback’s dominance is here to stay. Here’s why.

Regardless of election results, Bangkok will keep leaning toward China.

One of the first high-level dialogues between the countries since the spy balloon incident shouldn’t be seen as a breakthrough.

Beijing’s conversion into a major creditor has upended international finance—and not in a good way.

Washington and Hanoi have been inching closer, but it’s a complicated dance.

Lu Shaye keeps alienating his foreign hosts.