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But Biden and his team are likely to resist using Taiwan as a cudgel against China the way Trump did.

Parading a new submarine-launched missile made a big buzz in North Korea. The real buzz is what it could mean for Pyongyang’s nuclear deterrent.

U.S. conservatives have forged dangerous ties on abortion with reactionaries abroad.

With Trump gone, Biden talks up the need for unity and renewal after four years of bitter division.

Avril Haines vowed to keep politics out of intelligence.

From climate change to China to ending the forever wars, here are 10 of the biggest challenges facing the Biden foreign-policy team as it takes office.

The Trump administration’s final parting shot at Beijing poses a diplomatic challenge for Biden on his first day in office.

But congressional sources say it’s highly unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.

The U.S. president was impeached on charges of “incitement of insurrection” in a vote that laid bare deep divisions within the Republican Party over its post-Trump future.

Camp Chapman, once the scene of the CIA’s second-deadliest day, was hit again in December—but never reported.

The U.S. president was impeached on charges of “incitement of insurrection” in a vote that laid bare deep divisions within the Republican Party over its post-Trump future.

Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., will seek to revive a troubled agency, while Obama-era veterans Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner get top Asia jobs.

On Taiwan, Yemen, and Cuba, the Trump administration is laying political land mines for Biden on its way out the door.

The final big name for Biden’s national security team signals a break with the CIA’s dark past.

The epic SolarWinds hack affecting thousands of government agencies and companies could mark the beginning of the end of the open internet.

The U.S. president never could grasp that shielding Turkey’s Halkbank for Erdogan would make Iranian sanctions evasion easier.

One notable absence from Biden’s announcements: CIA director.

Wednesday’s assault was not the first time the president has incited violence, but for several administration officials, it was a step too far.

State Department officials expressed anger at the department’s gag order on messaging as violence wracked Washington.

Without mentioning Biden by name, Trump acknowledged a “new administration” will take power on Jan. 20.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, who took the gavel this week, also urged the State Department to reverse its decision to close the last two U.S. consulates in Russia.

Five articles from the past year that explain how the quagmire in Yemen sparked fierce political battles in Washington as millions teeter on the brink of starvation.

Threats, violence, and clampdowns have failed. Can decriminalization work?

But the vote laid down a marker for the incoming Biden administration on Democrats’ opposition to Middle Eastern arms sales and U.S. involvement in the conflict in Yemen.

A scientific study that was long kept under wraps by the State Department finally provides some—though not all—of the answers to mysterious health problems of American officials.

The New York congressman fended off a progressive challenge in an unusually public race.

Nancy McEldowney is one of several former senior foreign service officers expected to join the senior ranks of the new U.S. administration.

The battle between centrists and progressives over U.S. foreign policy that is dogging Biden’s transition is also playing out in a crucial committee.

But it’s unlikely the next U.S. administration will be able to fully embrace the International Criminal Court as the shadow of American prosecutions still lingers.

The U.S. president-elect laid out most of his national security team even as more Republicans abandoned Trump and his legal battles over the election results.

Biden’s foreign-policy team is weighing the merits of letting Zalmay Khalilzad keep his job or letting him go.

United Nations diplomats and civil servants fear peace efforts in Geneva may aid the spread of the coronavirus.

“It’s embarrassing for the United States,” a former senior intelligence officer who served under Trump said of the recent spate of firings.

Internecine tensions within the Democratic Party have been tamped down to defeat Trump—but that truce could be over Wednesday.

Both parties are flinging mud, and Asian Americans stand to suffer.