Why Oil Sanctions No Longer Work
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 ...
Tag: U.S.-China Competition
A Division of Labor Between Europe and Asia Won’t Work
This week it was reported that a senior Pentagon official ruffled his colleagues’ feathers by ordering controversial policy decisions, including cutting off aid to Ukraine, without White House approval. But, ...
Closing NATO’s Indo-Pacific Gap
The much-anticipated NATO summit in The Hague in late June accomplished its core objectives: securing a 5 percent defense pledge, managing U.S. President Donald Trump, and reaffirming a commitment to ...
A Bull in the China Policy Shop
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, Washington’s attention has shifted back to the Middle East once again. That wasn’t the game plan. It was during ...
A Distracted Washington Is a Win for Beijing
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China responds to U.S. strikes on Iran, the Taiwanese president embarks on a controversial speaking tour, and a serial rapist’s U.K. ...
Can China Catch Up on AI?
As details emerge from the trade negotiations between the United States and China this week, one thing seems clear: Rare earths were an important part of the discussions. China has ...
What Washington Doesn’t Understand About CCP Membership
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration flip-flops on Chinese student visas, U.S.-China trade talks continue in London, and a Beijing judge makes a heist. ...
Hegseth Fails to Reassure Asian Allies at Shangri-La
Onstage in Singapore on May 31 at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue defense forum, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Indo-Pacific leaders that the United States was “here to stay.” He ...
Trump and Xi Break the Silence With Phone Call
An hour-and-a-half phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday appeared to resolve a number of thorny issues, from rare earth exports to Chinese ...
What to Expect From South Korea’s New President
South Korea’s new president is Lee Jae-myung, from the liberal Democratic Party of Korea (DPK). He succeeds Yoon Suk-yeol, the disgraced former president from the conservative People Power Party (PPP), ...
