Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He was Director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 to 2023 and previously served as a member of the Senior Analytic Service in the ...

TANVI MADAN is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and the author of Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War. In August, five ...

The confirmation of a Trump-Xi meeting signaled an intent to de-escalate tensions and put negotiations back on track, ...

JULIAN GEWIRTZ served as Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council. He is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and the author of Never Turn Back: ...

Just three years after Canada called China a "disruptive global power," Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now ...

Schmitt came to prominence in the failing German Weimar Republic of the 1920s and then to notoriety after supporting and assisting the rising Nazi dictatorship. It is his version of history that is ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

China, by contrast, has already normalized drone delivery and established dedicated corridors for commercial operations, including for large cargo drones capable of delivering at scale. The United ...

Vince Cable’s balanced study of “superstates” is a useful antidote to the often value-laden discussions about which states will lead the future international order.

SHANNON K. O’NEIL is Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter.

PHILIP H. GORDON is the Sydney Stein, Jr., Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He was National Security Adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris and is the author of Losing the Long Game: The False ...

Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the ...