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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting in Gyeongju, set to ...

In the mid-2010s, Pentagon officials in the United States were alarmed by the military progress China and Russia were making. Both countries were investing in cyber, space, and electronic warfare ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...