Putin Pays Homage at Xi’s Summit
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit comes to a close, Beijing prepares to host a military parade, and Trump flip-flops on Chinese ...
Tag: alliances
Put the Quad to Work On Energy Security
Since its inception in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—the strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States—has struggled to define a clear purpose beyond counterbalancing China. Despite regular ...
Why Japan Might Be America’s Most Frustrated Ally
On July 7, U.S. President Donald Trump sent a letter to the Japanese government announcing a 25 percent tariff on all goods shipped to the United States beginning on Aug. ...
How to Lose Friends and Alienate Partners
When the Taliban swept back into power in August 2021, Afghanistan’s elite special operations forces were among the last holdouts. These were the final defenders, holding ground against daily Taliban ...
The Philippines May Turn Its Back on the U.S. Again
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, is currently the front-runner to win the country’s next presidential election in 2028, according to a recent poll. ...
Stockholm Syndrome in The Hague
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, brought to you by at least two different types of cold medicine as the changing weather and jet lag take their toll on ...
NATO Is Avoiding a Difficult Conversation
THE HAGUE—In the end, this year’s NATO summit will be remembered not for what its 32 members agreed on but for what they chose to avoid discussing. The headlines will ...
Post-NATO Europe Should Turn to Asia
As Washington’s long-standing alliances take a back seat in Trump’s world, there is a strong incentive for U.S. allies in Europe and Asia to do more with each other. Until ...
The German Question
European leaders are cautiously optimistic heading into the NATO summit in The Hague. In contrast to the Brussels summit in 2018, when first-time U.S. President Donald Trump berated Europeans over their ...
Europe’s Promises Are Not Enough
Europe built its post-Cold War prosperity on cheap energy from Russia, cheap goods from China, and cheap security from the United States. As we know by now, that model no ...
