China

Michael McFaul wants more democracy promotion. Is now the time?

Decisions about the continent’s future are being made in foreign capitals.

The GAIN AI Act would have given U.S. buyers priority in the global AI race.

The tragedy confirmed to many locals that the city’s freedoms have vanished.

From Canada to Pakistan, an interest in critical minerals is a through line in the White House’s foreign policy.

Europe would have given almost anything for peace, but Beijing had a different calculus.

Beijing’s continued economic growth depends on a fragile balance of control and freedom.

The leaders talked trade, Taiwan, and—likely—Japan.

Sanae Takaichi may be relishing confrontation with China.

The Trump-Xi agreement may be a sign the U.S. position is shifting.

The U.S. should avoid a narrow Christian focus.

Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

The bloc is beginning to have some agency—as long as you don’t mention China.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben on the incredible growth of clean energy in 2025.

Why Washington’s foreign-policy community needs to take its conversation to a new platform.

Beijing values domestic stability over global competition.

The new Japanese prime minister is unlikely to back down from recent comments.

Breaking out of their cycle of hope and distrust requires political imagination on both sides.

Forced recruitment has helped reverse momentum back in the military’s favor, even as it pushes many young men to flee.

Switzerland cuts a deal—plus the latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime.

Beijing finds itself in a precarious geopolitical position.

Renewables are in hot demand in a growing region.

Alarmed by Beijing’s rare earths chokehold, Washington is scrambling to plug other potential vulnerabilities.

The countries’ ethnic ties have grown strained in recent years.

Beijing dabbles in diplomacy at Web Summit.

Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.

Low-emission hydrogen is quickly becoming the latest frontier for geoeconomic competition.

Tariffs and inattention have pushed regional states toward China.

Trump’s testing plans revive scrutiny of Beijing’s growing arsenal.

A vague statement opens a range of expensive possibilities.

A top China scholar and former Biden administration advisor on the Trump-Xi meeting and the future of the U.S.-China relationship.

For a while, it looked as if China had learned its lesson on scaling back investments.

Taipei needs to learn how to better wield the “silicon shield.”

Rare earths and other assets have given Beijing an edge in trade talks with Washington.

Curators, painters, and performers are facing jail or exile.

The U.S. president has been on a mission to secure new supply chains—and counter China’s grip.

His Cambodia charm offensive is the new normal in U.S. foreign policy.

Featuring planes, ships, rockets, and nukes.

The PLA is a politically neutered army.

From soybeans to semiconductors, here’s everything you need to know about what came out of the meeting. 

Beijing’s latest policy is vague but still important.

It’s unclear whether his statement refers to warhead detonations.

The United States and China have struck a vague and reversible deal.

Both sides are sending positive signals ahead of a Thursday meeting, but a temporary truce may be more likely.

Trump’s aggression in Latin America has given a powerful boost to Beijing in the Pacific.

From Japan to Pakistan, the deals keep coming.

U.S. military planners are caught in an impossible dilemma.

How Labubu dolls became China’s first contemporary cultural export. 

China’s complex new rules take on the entire world at once—and give Trump an opportunity.

The threat to Moscow’s oil earnings is huge. But will it be enough?

Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep.

Billions for Buenos Aires, and support for Argentine farmers, is not sitting well in the U.S. heartland.

It’s the first of many possible personnel changes during this week’s party meeting.

Despite a recent boost in ties, history shows that Islamabad is a fickle friend in South Asia.

In Asia, soft power rests on a divisive, spiky fruit.

The deal to sever China’s ties to the Panama Canal could boost its influence elsewhere in the region.

Washington and Beijing both believe they can manage the chaos. Neither can.

Putin’s proposed arms control extension is good for Russia and China, but bad for America.

Tight cooperation with Beijing and Tehran is giving Moscow an edge on the critical weapons.

Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

Beijing’s new export controls take a page from Washington’s playbook.

A soft-power breakthrough amid an escalating hard-power rivalry.

People’s Daily has laid out an optimistic scheme for industrial transformation.

The U.S.-China trade war has just escalated—again.

A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.

Taiwan’s pushback on chip production underscores continued U.S. dependency.

Nobody knows what the impact of the world’s biggest hydropower project will be.

More sanctions on LPG and “shadow fleet” tankers indicate more maximum pressure on Tehran.

A report suggests that Islamabad continues to use its critical minerals to attract U.S. financing.

Chinese resistance to fascism was more than a Communist triumph.

The U.S. president is drawing ever more from Chinese autocrats’ playbook.

This week’s holiday shows the Chinese public’s immense appetite for travel.

Well-founded or not, Beijing’s fear of a U.S. decapitation strike could prove dangerous. Washington should help mitigate it.

Beijing’s gains could eventually erode Washington’s battlefield advantage.

Rare earths and strategic interests entice the U.S., India, and China.

Beijing’s control of rare-earth minerals will force Trump to find new leverage.

Moscow pivoted to the east a decade ago, but it is now besmitten—or captive.

Australia has bucked the trend of shrinking U.S. security commitments.

The biggest implications of recent protests in the border region relate to security.

Thousands of national security employees will continue working through the shutdown, but there are broader implications.

It’s not the economy, stupid.

There are several options for dealing with the Trump administration.

The death of actor Yu Menglong has started a cycle of censorship and rumor.

Beijing will still retain considerable influence over the U.S. version of the app.

New Delhi still faces many obstacles on its path to great-power status.

Artificial intelligence is not the most important part of the U.S.-China technology race, yet it receives the most attention in Washington.

Electric cars were a punchline here just a few years ago. Thanks to Chinese companies, that’s not the case anymore.

Taking a lesson out of China’s playbook, Vietnam is building militarized islands.

The island’s de facto ambassador to Washington on Trump, China, defense spending, and more.

Dan Wang’s account of an engineering state mixes the grand and the intimate.

A discussion with Adam Tooze about his essay on the end of development.

EU measures to kneecap energy, banks, and defense firms contrast with Washington’s passivity.

Mutual dependence is a rare source of stability in U.S.-China relations.

New subsidies aren’t selling young people on the future.

The dollar isn’t getting dethroned—yet—by outside rivals, but Trump may be doing their work for them.

“American interests in the region are also at stake.”

Can the latest round of negotiations find a deal that sticks?

Trump should strike a deal with Southeast Asia to secure imported U.S. AI chips.

Russia and Iran have proved weaker than many thought. So will China.

But the United States is catching up, with new weapons set to come online soon.