U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent shock waves through Taipei when he declared in late September that Washington could not guarantee that it would defend Taiwan unless the island agreed ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the U.S. Defense Department potentially restarting nuclear testing, and deadly anti-government ...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping used their first meeting since Trump returned to office to agree to a temporary truce on their trade tensions, stopping short ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at China and the United States competing for trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Ukraine’s conditions for cease-fire talks with ...
The current trade confrontation between the United States and China may look like a repeat of the episode from earlier this year: Washington has rolled out sky-high tariffs, while China ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the White House’s new critical minerals partner, the first major test of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal, and a growing feud between ...
Barring a major surprise, Timor-Leste will join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as its 11th member state at the bloc’s summit in Malaysia this month. Acceding to ASEAN ...
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 Chinese military planners, and probably even the Chinese leadership itself, think about a hypothetical future war with the United States, they are very likely worried that the U.S. military ...
Apparently, U.S. President Donald Trump and his chief economic negotiator, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, like to play poker. “You don’t have the cards,” Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during ...
