China

The United States may be accepting the reality of Chinese power.

Historian Rana Mitter on the new balance of power between Washington and Beijing.

Rivalry with Beijing is inevitable. Economic rupture would be disastrous.

A more confident China is happy to downplay presidential visits.

A tale of two readouts.

Elites in both China and the U.S. are too easily tempted to buy into their own myths.

Beijing can’t easily afford to escalate any economic struggle with Washington.

Forced assimilation is costing China dearly.

Countries must prepare for the dual threat of pandemics and supply chain shocks.

The U.S. president heads to Beijing in detente and dealmaking mode.

The leaders are expected to talk trade, Taiwan, and the Iran war.

For all of the U.S. leader’s efforts, Washington remains deeply vulnerable.

There were always reasons to doubt it was a real possibility—until now.

Uneven wealth distribution in the United States has political—and global—implications.

Trouble is brewing as norms against war dissolve.

The secretary of state may face an uphill battle during his visit to New Delhi this month.

Western-dominated insurance premiums can choke off Beijing’s oil supplies more effectively than warships can.

Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.

BYD’s landmark sales fuel debate over working conditions and the country’s relationship with China.

The Chinese leader isn’t willing to give anybody else power.

Cutting-edge U.S. models are too expensive for much of the world.

Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Beijing is pushing back on Washington.

The flow of global capital is hitting new walls.

U.S. guarantees have not shielded Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam from economic shock.

By pulling Seoul into its rivalry with Beijing, Washington is undermining the alliance’s core mission.

Xi’s new commanders are the men his last generals blocked.

The Section 301 case outlined by U.S. trade officials is neither coherent nor defensible.

Washington has no good options for evacuating Americans in a crisis.

The reversal underscores Beijing’s shifting national security concerns.

Beijing is ready to take risks as Tokyo backs Taiwan.

“Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon.

The real test for the Trump-Xi meeting will come afterwards.

Literature’s obsessive quest for anti-canonical adaptations pursues the white whale at its peril.

From Europe to Asia, governments are hedging against unreliable and erratic U.S. power.

The selection process for António Guterres’s successor begins with a grilling for four contenders.

Why Beijing’s success spells doom for everyone else.

The Iran war exposes the limits of zero-sum thinking about great powers.

Anthropic’s latest AI model has kick-started a new debate. 

Beijing’s response to Washington’s chaos is not triumphalism but a patient campaign to win the future.

Our fixation with defining the emerging global order hides the true complexity of our neo-medieval moment.

A rare insider testimony reveals how China tries to hide state violence in Xinjiang

Targeting the inner circle of leadership shows no one is safe.

Beijing is less focused on acquiring sovereign control, more so in assuring its own strategic security.

Beijing’s relative quiet amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis underscores a domestic shift.

How longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s economic record could shape Sunday’s election.

Government paralysis is freezing budgets and wrecking public trust.

The Iran war has disrupted a different, more fragile global energy system.

A key meeting with the Taiwanese opposition signals a different model of cross-strait stability.

Ma Xingrui is the latest official ensnared by anti-corruption purges.

Washington thinks offensive cyber power will restore deterrence. It’s mistaken.

Trumpian chaos conceals a wider bipartisan shift aimed at China.

The lack of a counterweight encourages intervention and overreach.

Western tariffs accelerated its transformation into a sophisticated extension of China’s industrial policy.

U.S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U.S. stocks.

The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region’s tech bubble.

Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.

Recent mandates show the Chinese leader wants both loyalty and creativity from officials.

From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats.

Jason Bordoff on the winners and losers from conflict in the Middle East.

A much-ballyhooed idea is almost—but not quite—dead.

A harsh religious crackdown has caught pastors in its net.

Such a view both overstates and understates the scope of Beijing’s ambitions.

The Chinese president faces an uphill battle in his hopes for a second capital.

Will there be order after chaos?

A strategic location coupled with a close U.S. partnership makes for an attractive military target.

Beijing fears a failed state on its border.

Even once the war ends, it will take time to get back to normal energy flows.

Ten years hence, the world will look very different.

A new book debates who wins wars and why.

Americans are paying, reindustrialization isn’t happening, and China profits.

Chinese officials are being asked to do everything all at once.

Sanae Takaichi committing to Taiwan’s defense would help keep the peace.

Even as Trump wages war on Tehran, he’s reigniting his economic war against U.S. trading partners.

The bloc isn’t a geopolitical alliance, and it shouldn’t be expected to function like one.

Beijing must navigate an oil crunch and fragile diplomacy with Washington.

It’s the latest case study in the persistent failure of transnational solidarity.

Private Chinese capital is being locked out of mutually beneficial opportunities.

A growth target of 4.5 percent is the lowest in decades.

Washington has yet to recognize that mobility is an essential part of regional security.

Forget the inflated comparisons. Neither the war in the Middle East nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine ever signaled a global conflagration.

Diplomatic messaging suggests Beijing’s potential for mediation in the war.

Beijing is as concerned about Gulf partners as Tehran.

Donald Trump may need Xi Jinping’s help to stop conflict from spreading.

The Iran strikes will convince Beijing to double down on military growth.

Amid global oil and gas disruptions, China stands prepared for the electrostate era.

A poll of IR scholars reveals strong opposition to the conflict and fears about its risks.

Beijing doesn’t want to imitate the United States’ alliance obligations.

Each day of war that passes adds to the physical risks to global oil and gas, but so far markets have basically shrugged.

Beijing won’t risk its broader Middle East interests to save the Islamic Republic.

Beijing is an unentangled superpower—but one with key interests at stake.

Mark Carney’s tour of the Indo-Pacific this week is a rousing show of defiance, but it may have unintended effects.

The shortage of a popular regional specialty is shaking global meat markets.

Beijing is less likely to risk an invasion while Trump is facilitating its pressure campaign against Taipei.

A sweeping draft law could test the balance between control and economic growth.

The Supreme Court ruling has thrown the U.S. president’s tariff strategy and trade deals into chaos.

The influential Pentagon official is narrowing choices available to U.S. allies.

The Taliban government can’t protect Chinese miners from local hostility.

Kurt Campbell: “The president clearly wants short-term deals.”

A conversation with the authors of “The Great Heist” on Beijing’s spycraft—and what can be done about it.

Washington is leveraging its power to intimidate countries that are trying to protect the planet.