For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...

As reported by several major news outlets, for months after Trump’s January inauguration, internal debate pitted long-time advocates of regime change—led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio—against ...

MARC LYNCH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and the author of America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region. The regional order of the ...

Economic relations between the two countries are more fraught than ever: in early October, for the second time in just six months, the United States and China launched a trade war, imposing ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

The best way to reverse this dynamic and achieve a substantial reduction in military activities around Taiwan is for both Washington and Beijing to show greater respect for each other’s core positions ...

But for most of its 16-year history, the BRICS has not positioned itself in opposition to the United States and its allies. Several BRICS members have even been close U.S. partners. Washington has ...

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.

MARVIN PARK is Senior Vice President at American Global Strategies. He served as Director for Taiwan Affairs on the National Security Council from 2023 to 2024 and as U.S. Naval Attaché at the ...

According to this logic, African countries would be more likely to attract investment and trade opportunities in a system less concerned about issues of democracy and good governance. But Trump’s ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

On October 28, 2024, a group of South Korean intelligence officials briefed NATO members and the alliance’s three other Indo-Pacific partners—Australia, Japan, and New Zealand—on a shocking ...