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As U.S. President Donald Trump dismantles the post-1945 liberal international order, some analysts insist that the disruption could be positive for...


The United States’ lead in artificial intelligence might seem unassailable. U.S. companies—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI—are out in front...


The U.S. dollar has dominated the global economy for more than seven decades. Roughly 90 percent of foreign exchange transactions today involve the...


Among the many aims of the October 8 cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, flooding Gaza with humanitarian assistance ought to be one of the...


Thirteen years after Xi Jinping ascended to the top of China’s leadership hierarchy, observers in Washington remain deeply confused about how to...


Among the many aims of the October 8 cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, flooding Gaza with humanitarian assistance ought to be one of the...


China’s role as the world’s factory—producing and exporting goods across the globe—has entered a new phase. In the past decade, China has made a...


When U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the coming weeks and months—likely starting next week at the Asia-Pacific...


In 1898, as the United Kingdom joined other powers in carving up the once mighty Qing empire, British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury warned a London...


More than 25 years ago, at the outset of Vladimir Putin’s rule, Russia’s political future felt undetermined, or at least full of contradiction. The...


In a matter of months, the Trump administration has rewritten the rules of U.S. trade policy. It has imposed blanket tariffs on nearly every...


In “How to Stop a Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza” (August 14, 2025), Jacob J. Lew and David Satterfield set out to highlight problems that have...


The United States has pursued two grand strategies in the 80 years since World War II. One was an extraordinary success: the policy of...


Given the flood of books on China that has poured forth in recent years, one might think the rest of the world would have figured out that...


To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a full...
