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As China pushes clean energy policies at home, it is exporting its high-pollution coal industry to pristine places like Kenya’s Lamu Island—with Nairobi’s seal of approval. Local residents fear it will destroy the environment they depend on.

The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.

The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.

The United States faces great-power enemies. It needs a military focused on fighting them.

After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.

To secure itself, the West needs to figure out where all its gadgets are coming from. Here’s why that’s so difficult.

How Brexit could spell the end of Britain’s famed advantage in intelligence.

Changes in technology, politics, and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt—or risk irrelevance.

The very long history of industrial espionage.

Robert Mueller has finished his investigation, but that may be the least of the U.S. president’s worries.

America’s laden tables used to wow queens and premiers. But is state dinner diplomacy as outdated as lobster aspic?

The Swedish military had a #MeToo problem. They decided to do something about it.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself president. But even if he succeeds in restoring democracy, the hard part is just beginning.

A once-unified online world has broken into new warring states.

A guide to the U.S. midterms for foreign-policy wonks.

Victims of sexual violence and forced abortion during Colombia’s long years of conflict have yet to see justice.

Khashoggi ordeal spotlights staffing gap at embassies around the world.

Something terrible is happening in Xinjiang.

The U.S. Defense Department and big tech need each other—but getting along won’t be easy