Ten years ago, when I was in the late stages of research for a book about China’s sense of its power across the ages, I flew to Palawan, a little-heard-of, ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Visits to China from foreign investors and officials alike reflect Beijing’s hardened approach to economic policy, Beijing’s military-industrial purge claims a ...
When U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on April 10, both leaders, facing domestic political challenges at home, will be eager to ...
In one of her first speeches as U.S. treasury secretary in 2021, Janet Yellen declared that “credibility abroad begins with credibility at home.” The words were meant as a rebuke ...
FORT IRWIN, California—For as long as the United States has had an army, U.S. infantry soldiers have stuck by one motto: “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their ...
For anyone seeking to argue the case, there is no shortage of data points that can be used to chart the course of America’s putative decline. Start with the decay ...
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over two years ago, the West has already made serious strides to wean itself off reliance on Russian energy exports such as oil and ...
For the United States, foreign policy has always been a mix of securing interests and promoting values, and India checks the box on multiple counts. Washington and New Delhi routinely ...
Platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are not only shaping our economy, but our society—with questions of privacy, monopoly power, online racial discrimination, misinformation, hate speech, incitement, and impacts on ...
Last summer, more than 2,000 people (including this reporter) gathered at a convention center in Las Vegas for one of the world’s biggest hacking conferences. Most of them were there ...