Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces major rare-earth export controls, Washington and Beijing begin charging steep tit-for-tat port fees, and a British espionage case involving ...
When Wen visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in the spring of 2025, the independent Chinese ecologist saw numerous heavy trucks loaded with construction materials along Medog county in the ...
ERBIL, Iraq—One day in July, rush hour traffic crowded Erbil’s 60 Meter Street, one of Erbil’s growing number of ring roads, under a smoggy sky. Tan Nissan Sunny taxis merged ...
U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his efforts against the U.S. clean energy sector this week by taking aim at a giant wind farm, a move that experts warn will ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has given Russian President Vladimir Putin a lot of rope over the past eight and a half years, but his patience now appears to be rapidly ...
Even as the world reels from the hottest year ever recorded, the Trump administration is taking unprecedented steps to make climate change denialism the foundation of its federal policy. There ...
India thought it had found clear waters. Initial U.S. and European hand-wringing over New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave way to a grudging ...
Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive actions that could set the country back decades on ocean protection—reopening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument ...
Taiwan is experiencing an energy crisis. As the island completes a phaseout of nuclear power plants—long the bedrock of its energy mix—plans for a promised offshore wind buildup have sputtered. ...
On Thursday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu pardoned and bestowed a national honor on environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after his execution. It’s the first time that Nigeria’s government has ...
