Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese students are caught up in Harvard University’s tussle with the Trump administration, China’s defense minister is skipping the premier Asian ...
Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has pursued a series of head-spinning moves to reorient U.S. foreign policy, from initiating a global trade war to threatening long-standing ...
With the Trump administration taking a wrecking ball to the international order that the United States built, it is unclear what of it will survive. It is worth reflecting on ...
This week, U.S. presidential envoy Richard Grenell met with members of Venezuela’s government in Antigua and Barbuda. It was the latest round of negotiations between Washington and Caracas over everything ...
For weeks now, egged on by his South African-born mega-billionaire advisor Elon Musk, U.S. President Donald Trump has been ratcheting up a campaign to inflict damage on South Africa, a ...
A few weeks after taking the oath of office in 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden appeared at the State Department to give the first foreign-policy address of his new administration. ...
On May 20, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also currently serves as acting national security advisor, national archivist, and administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), ...
The Trump administration’s first 100 days in power signaled a sharp and dramatic reorientation of the U.S. relationship with Africa. Public health forecasting models estimate that that the administration’s grave ...
Once, while shuttling between meetings in steamy Beijing during the summer of 2010, I asked Zbigniew Brzezinski who his single biggest foreign policy influence was. I was the great man’s ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in striking Mexican cartels, dismissed during his first term as idle speculation, is now a genuine policy option debated within the White House. Mexican President ...
