Indeed, this week Trump acknowledged to reporters that Taiwan is likely to come up in talks with Xi. Chinese leaders have made no secret of their desire to assert control over Taiwan, by force if ...

On October 28, 2024, a group of South Korean intelligence officials briefed NATO members and the alliance’s three other Indo-Pacific partners—Australia, Japan, and New Zealand—on a shocking ...

The authors provide an extensive analysis of economic nationalism, which they define as policies designed to strengthen national economic autonomy and self-sufficiency while also ...

China’s role as the world’s factory—producing and exporting goods across the globe—has entered a new phase. In the past decade, China has made a concerted effort to move its manufacturing sector up ...

She worked at Russia’s central bank until early 2022. To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.

ZEID RA’AD AL-HUSSEIN is President of the International Peace Institute and a member of The Elders. He was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018 and before that served as Jordan’s ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

Prakash Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s.

She served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental ...

The first phase of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas is a tremendous achievement, securing the release of hostages held by Hamas for over two years and the end to a ...