Joe Biden

Washington’s crackdown on technology access is creating a new kind of global conflict.

Smiles and handshakes won’t erase Taiwan tensions.

As Trumpism deflates, internationalist Republicans will press the Biden administration on China, defense, and trade.

The last thing either leader wants right now is a major confrontation.

The midterms may cost him Congress, but they’ll also ignite a new round of Republican infighting.

Washington has a bold plan to restrict Beijing’s semiconductor imports. The world needs to talk about it.

Divided government could be just what is needed to unite Americans around the administration’s China policies.

Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Biden is re-creating nuclear deterrence on the fly.

The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a guide to protecting a liberal world under chronic threat.

Washington commits to the Indo-Pacific—and tempers democracy promotion in order to win partners against China.

A renewed focus on great-power rivalry ratifies a sea change in U.S. thinking.

Asia will remain central to U.S. supply chains, but the right policies could accelerate the shift from China to friendlier countries.

Al Qaeda once again has a safe haven in Afghanistan, endangering Americans.

Framing geopolitics in terms of democracy and autocracy won’t necessarily help bring peace.

USAID now has a playbook to check bad actors.

Compromise is becoming increasingly difficult—especially over Taiwan.

The country’s fragile postwar democracy is threatened like never before.

The White House’s crowning domestic policy achievement can’t reach its full potential without engaging the world.

On the sad anniversary of the chaotic U.S. pullout, Afghanistan is once again primed for terror.