Washington and Beijing’s bitter trade spat over rare earths—the powerful elements that are crucial to defense and other advanced technologies—has left vulnerable European leaders worried that they could be next. ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a lack of progress is Russia-Ukraine peace talks, the United States clinching a trade deal with Japan, and a landmark climate...
Arguably the most far-reaching developments in military technology and tactics that we have witnessed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the contest for air superiority above the battlefield using an...
The fighting in the Syrian city of Sweida appears to have finally come to an end this week after the last of several declared cease-fires took hold. The Druze and...
In June, as the bombs were falling on Tehran, a curious thing happened: Iran’s crude oil exports briefly spiked. Despite being bombed, Iran was not deterred from shipping oil—nor were...
Donald Trump “really gets it.” This is according to no less an authority than Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, who was commenting on the U.S. president’s understanding of AI and ways...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Africans express outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to Eswatini, the European Union imposes a fourth round of...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at global criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, a new trade deal between the United States and the Philippines, and the future...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Construction begins on a controversial megadam in Tibet, exit bans are being imposed on U.S. citizens, and rural toilets come under...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in recent months has emerged as one of the fiercest internal critics of his country’s war in Gaza. Olmert has repeatedly excoriated Israeli Prime...
