Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at China’s trade goals at this year’s APEC summit, potential U.S. military strikes on Venezuela, and allegations of Russia using a banned...

The leaders of the United States and China, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, appeared to set their trade war aside at a meeting this week in South Korea. Officials suggest...

Any book that starts with a speech by Archidamus and the Peloponnesian War is catnip to a certain type of reader. And A. Wess Mitchell’s Great Power Diplomacy, though it...

A Bangkok museum curator recently fled to London after Chinese and Thai officials pressured him to remove the names of Hong Kong, Uyghur, and Tibetan artists from an exhibition. Among...

The Slovak National Uprising Square in central Bratislava is no stranger to upheaval. Evidence of the city’s turbulent history surrounds the square and its pastel-colored buildings. Walk a few blocks...

As China flexes its rare-earth muscle in trade talks, U.S. President Donald Trump has been waging an all-out effort to ramp up domestic critical mineral production and secure new partnerships...

For decades, the United States’ relationship with Cambodia has been among the most fraught across Southeast Asia, a region where the U.S.-China great power rivalry is fast intensifying. In the...

Belgium does not often find itself in a position of resisting European legislation, whatever the subject. But that’s exactly what it’s doing now. Last week at a European Union summit,...

China and the United States have agreed on a yearlong truce in their trade war—but it’s essentially a handshake between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, not an actual agreement....

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where your co-authors engaged in serious diplomatic and trade negotiations over their respective contributions to today’s newsletter. On that note, here’s what’s on...