China

Beijing may be closing the gap with Washington in the AI race.

Ma Xingrui’s fall shows how deep personnel problems run.

A new Pew survey shows the world likes China more than the United States. Look closer, and the win belongs to nobody.

A new organization includes five Southeast Asian members.

The president’s allegations about election interference are the latest case in point.

Far from proving fraud, the declassified intelligence shows analysts doing their jobs carefully.

Trump and Xi have brutally undermined the institutions and personnel responsible for safeguarding diplomacy.

Without firing a shot, Beijing gained a freer hand in the Gulf, a boost for its industries, and new credibility.

Geopolitical fragmentation has hamstrung nuclear sanctions regimes. Pyongyang is taking advantage.

Xi Jinping’s push for assimilation won’t solve long-standing issues.

Ten years on, the Philippines is stepping up its defense plans in the South China Sea.

With the latest rules, Beijing hopes to rein in a booming industry.

Beijing’s diplomatic retaliation has limits—but fewer than before.

It was a milestone for Beijing’s nuclear forces—but not necessarily the provocation many analysts have made it out to be.

As internet sleuthing replaces traditional intelligence collection, one big mystery about the PLA remains.

The overlooked technology wreaked havoc on the Strait of Hormuz—and global trade.

Confidence in the Strait of Hormuz has been shattered. Trust is now among the most important commodities in the energy world.

The United States has recast a small industry as a national security threat.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth tells FP why she is traveling to Taiwan.

Washington and Tehran are grappling over a “memorandum of misunderstanding.”

The two countries announce a “new era” in ties during Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s trip.

The emotionalism in Indian politics obscures the strategic logic of U.S.-India ties.

How did a private aircraft enter Beijing’s sensitive airspace?

Should one company—and one person—have this much power?

With economic and security interests split between great powers, the region is beginning to consider a third path.

Beijing can create financial instruments, but it cannot decree demand.

Xi has spent billions of dollars trying to turn Beijing into a soccer powerhouse.

New export restrictions underscore Beijing’s supply chain grip in ongoing tensions with Washington. 

Washington doesn’t know how to untangle China’s military-civil fusion.

To combat Beijing, Washington needs a program to spread its AI worldwide.

Everything is clear except what will happen to shipping and oil exports.

Diplomatic fractures between the two strategic partners are likely to outlast the conflict.

A military name change signals a broader strategic and diplomatic shift.

The United States is racing ahead where Europe, China, and India struggle.

Financing foreign elections is a curious habit for a one-party state.

As the conflict winds down, Beijing is taking notes.

It’s complicated but not this month, most likely.

As the West debated a green energy future, Beijing was building it.

Beijing’s economic ambitions have been brought back to earth.

The ongoing war has revealed vulnerabilities that could prove far more dangerous in a conflict over Taiwan.

Rather than a new international framework, we need a system for moving from one framework to the next.

Don’t let Chinamaxxing come at the expense of meaningful engagement with Chinese workers and activists.

The Chinese leader’s long-awaited visit to Pyongyang aims to counter Russian influence.

The war in Iran has depleted the Pentagon as China’s military buildup matures.

Chinese models have become the overwhelming choice for African developers.

RFK fans and China hawks are on a collision course over peptides.

Rather than pushing Beijing out of the region, Washington should offer countries better strategic alternatives.

How Europe has learned to live with great-power politics. 

Prisoner releases mostly reflect the regime’s growing confidence five years after seizing power in a coup.

Economic strategists are pitching tougher policies for an anxious world.

Donald Trump is working hard to alienate yet another strategic partner.

Snubbing a key security forum shows Beijing’s new confidence.

The new import duties are “a solution in search of a problem.”

What history can and cannot explain about today’s unraveling order.

A joint campaign to defend the island would struggle to operate effectively.

Two fatal disasters highlight enduring problems in the mining industry.

A Xi visit to Pyongyang is likely soon, after a seven-year gap.

The pause of a $14 billion arms package raises concerns about U.S. support for Taipei.

Trump’s Beijing trip shows that the wind is blowing in China’s direction.

The Chinese president may be preparing for a rare and momentous trip to Pyongyang.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is raising the floor for punishing purge targets.

Putin’s visit to China shows that Russia is getting sucked deeper into a profoundly unequal relationship.

And America’s NATO allies are still on edge about it.

The campaign is motivated by corruption concerns and an old-fashioned egalitarianism.

The United States may be accepting the reality of Chinese power.

Historian Rana Mitter on the new balance of power between Washington and Beijing.

Rivalry with Beijing is inevitable. Economic rupture would be disastrous.

A more confident China is happy to downplay presidential visits.

A tale of two readouts.

Elites in both China and the U.S. are too easily tempted to buy into their own myths.

Beijing can’t easily afford to escalate any economic struggle with Washington.

Forced assimilation is costing China dearly.

Countries must prepare for the dual threat of pandemics and supply chain shocks.

The U.S. president heads to Beijing in detente and dealmaking mode.

The leaders are expected to talk trade, Taiwan, and the Iran war.

For all of the U.S. leader’s efforts, Washington remains deeply vulnerable.

There were always reasons to doubt it was a real possibility—until now.

Uneven wealth distribution in the United States has political—and global—implications.

Trouble is brewing as norms against war dissolve.

The secretary of state may face an uphill battle during his visit to New Delhi this month.

Western-dominated insurance premiums can choke off Beijing’s oil supplies more effectively than warships can.

Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.

BYD’s landmark sales fuel debate over working conditions and the country’s relationship with China.

The Chinese leader isn’t willing to give anybody else power.

Cutting-edge U.S. models are too expensive for much of the world.

Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Beijing is pushing back on Washington.

The flow of global capital is hitting new walls.

U.S. guarantees have not shielded Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam from economic shock.

By pulling Seoul into its rivalry with Beijing, Washington is undermining the alliance’s core mission.

Xi’s new commanders are the men his last generals blocked.

The Section 301 case outlined by U.S. trade officials is neither coherent nor defensible.

Washington has no good options for evacuating Americans in a crisis.

The reversal underscores Beijing’s shifting national security concerns.

Beijing is ready to take risks as Tokyo backs Taiwan.

“Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon.

The real test for the Trump-Xi meeting will come afterwards.

Literature’s obsessive quest for anti-canonical adaptations pursues the white whale at its peril.

From Europe to Asia, governments are hedging against unreliable and erratic U.S. power.

The selection process for António Guterres’s successor begins with a grilling for four contenders.

Why Beijing’s success spells doom for everyone else.