Tag: United States

China and the United States have agreed on a yearlong truce in their trade war—but it’s essentially a handshake between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, not an actual agreement. ...

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’s recent social media post—in which he said he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” with Russia ...

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 ...

The nature of the trans-Atlantic alliance has dramatically shifted. Over four generations, the West was built on long-term trust and open-ended collaboration on common interests: containing the Soviets during the ...

On Nov. 10, when world leaders gather on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belém, Brazil, for COP30—the first global climate summit since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at East Asia’s tactic to woo U.S. President Donald Trump, Hurricane Melissa wreaking havoc on the Caribbean, and Israel violating its cease-fire ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: New U.S. and EU sanctions on Russian oil companies have knock-on effects for India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

In 2019, journalist David Klion described the United States as “the sick man of the 21st century,” a country suffering from elite stagnation and institutional fatigue. Six years later, the ...

When Estonian President Alar Karis found himself sitting with U.S. President Donald Trump  during Pope Francis’s funeral at the Vatican earlier this year, the Russia-Ukraine war and Trump’s efforts to ...