Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re still recovering from the lingering post-Thanksgiving food coma. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Some key questions for the U.S. ...
After years of fruitless discussions and aborted plans in the European Union, one country—Italy—has recently begun to process irregular migrants’ asylum claims in a third country for the first time. ...
With only a few weeks left in office, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration recently launched new export bans designed to hit China’s semiconductor industry. In return, Beijing announced restrictions on ...
Among the many countries targeted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats—a net that he recently widened to include all the BRICS countries if they so much as think of ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has famously promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine on his first day in office, but he has been characteristically vague on how he will do ...
In Ukraine, a surge in military hostilities has again thrown the safety of the country’s operational nuclear plants into jeopardy. Russia has been targeting conventional Ukrainian power stations, the transmission ...
Competition with China has become the biggest through line of a highly polarized Washington over the past decade, and a bipartisan commission that advises U.S. lawmakers on China is calling ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claims to have ideas for quickly settling the Russia-Ukraine. Whether or not that’s true—and there’s plenty of reason to think it’s not—it’s likely the Trump administration ...
As dusk fell on the hills around the Georgian village of Odzisi, activist David Katsarava looked out over the valley and the glimmering lights on a mountainside beyond. The lights ...
U.S. voters have given President-elect Donald Trump a mandate to govern the United States, but his policies are certain to influence the entire world. It’s possible to speculate on the ...