List of China articles
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Four workers in blue hardhats walk past a coal plant. One is smoking a cigarette. 2023 Was Another Record Year for Climate Change
As the world threatens to breach a critical global warming threshold, cooperation still seems to fall short.
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South Korean military drones fly in formation during a joint U.S.-South Korean military drill at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, on May 25. Peering Into the Crystal Ball: 10 National Security Predictions for 2024
What we think will happen, for better or worse, in 2024.
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An illustration shows a stylized globe with a crack through it. A hand with a wrench tightens the screw atop the globe. The Field of Geopolitics Offers Both Promise and Peril
The world’s most dismal science could make Eurasia safe for illiberalism and predation—or protect it from those forces.
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People walk along Shanghai's Bund waterfront with skyscrapers of the Lujiazui financial district in the background. A Grim Year for the Chinese Economy
How the sharp slowdown has impacted young people, the military, and more.
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An illustration shows the faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted by wavy lines of a fragmented map of Europe and Asia. Foreign Policy’s Best Articles on Geopolitics and Strategy
Five big-think articles from 2023 that cut through the news.
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A soldier fighting for Ukraine stands in front of a destroyed monastery in Dolyna, Ukraine. FP Live Looks Back at 2023
Stephen Walt explains why countries are accusing America of hypocrisy.
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A collection of illustrated flags fly over a textured background that fades from blue to gray. The flags of the G-7 and NATO are the largest and positioned near the top of the image. Beneath them are the smaller flags of individual countries, including China, Russia, India, and others. Alliances Are Back at the Center of Power
States are increasingly focused on security and the age-old diplomatic instruments to achieve it.
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From left: Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The Most Notable Obituaries in 2023
The legacies of departed leaders from Pervez Musharraf to Henry Kissinger still shape world politics.
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An illustration shows piles of shipping containers and symbols of industry as protectionist islands in a sea. Industrial Policy’s First Cracks Are Starting to Show
This year, state intervention solidified as the world’s new economic orthodoxy—and its weaknesses began to emerge.
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An illustration of a person holding a monarchical crown with echoing figures inside the form indicating a new type of democracy. Our Best Long Reads From 2023
Foreign Policy’s best deep dives of the year.
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A drawn illustration of the new geopolitical words from 2023: AIS gaps, subsea infrastructure, maritime terrorism, derisking, BRICS plus New Geopolitical Words We Learned in 2023
Washington is losing its rizz and other powers are stepping into the AIS gaps.
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a podium in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, flanked by American flags and standing beneath a painting of Teddy Roosevelt. Two out-of-focus video cameras are visible in the foreground as they film Biden, framing him from either side. Four Days in 2023 That Shook the World
2023 was a tectonic shift in geopolitics.
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen walks between a line of soldiers standing at attention at a welcome ceremony on a cloudy day in St. Lucia. Tsai is a middle-aged woman wearing a black suit over a white T-shirt. In a Caribbean Paradise, Taiwan and China Tussle for Recognition
St. Lucia keeps switching between Taipei and Beijing.
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In the foreground, U.S. Reps. Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi sit at podiums during a House China committee hearing. Why a Bipartisan House Committee Wants to Further Cut Ties With Beijing
A new report from the influential select committee on China has flown under the radar.
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leave after holding a press conference at the White House in Washington. Did Biden’s Foreign Policy Flounder in 2023?
From Ukraine to Gaza, U.S. credibility on the world stage is appearing strained as an election year looms.
