China

The crisis may expose the limits of Beijing’s reach in the Middle East.

And that isn’t bad news for the United States.

Why it matters, and how worried we should be about it.

The security of clean energy is easier to manage than the security of oil.

A German politician’s ties to a Chinese influence network are part of a pattern across Central and Eastern Europe.

One department now oversees everything from religion to winter sports to influence operations.

The Biden administration has been laying the groundwork for a big meeting with Xi Jinping.

Inside the world of China’s richest players.

Washington’s key diplomatic assets have become a political bargaining chip.

Two detained former executives from developer China Evergrande Group won’t be the only scapegoats.

Beijing’s censorship has pernicious effects on artists and educational institutions—but abandoning all cultural ties would do more harm than good.

Local officials are inflexible about implementing Beijing’s orders.

It may be in their own self-interest.

A new inquiry may expose Beijing’s reach in Ottawa.

Implying China mostly uses ethnically Chinese assets is both wrong and dangerous.

The idea of emerging power centers is popular but wrong—and could lead to serious policy mistakes.

A recent book makes the case for collaboration in an increasingly competitive industry.

Ahead of a presidential election, debate in Buenos Aires reveals the mounting challenges of multi-alignment.

Beijing’s extensive infrastructure projects don’t seem to be translating into political clout.

Beijing’s global maritime operations double as intelligence-gathering outposts.

The disappearance of Li Shangfu seems to be part of a cycle of paranoia for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

World leaders need to care about fish as much as they do about semiconductors.

The actual number could be more than double the current Western estimate.

The Europeans have far more to lose than the United States from curbing ties.

And it should stop trying.

Recent strides in chipmaking and artificial intelligence show Beijing’s post-export control world taking shape. 

Beijing’s representatives are always scared they could be the next to vanish.

Embedded with U.S. forces in the Pacific, I saw the dilemmas of deterrence firsthand.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 9: An earthquake devastates Morocco, Kim Jong Un leaves Pyongyang for a key summit, and a French official is arrested abroad.

Adam Tooze answers listener questions on China.

As another multilateral forum issued a watered-down statement, Russia and North Korea met to deepen military ties.

The bloc’s divide over China pushes members to go their own way.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu describes his country’s efforts to deter a Chinese invasion.

The Sept. 30 runoff winner will favor either India or China.

The son of Cambodia’s long-serving prime minister will face challenges to his leadership from powerful political families.

An espionage case involving a parliamentary aide comes at a bad time for the Conservative Party.

Over the past two years, China has enacted some of the world’s earliest and most sophisticated rules for AI.

Foreign Policy's Fall 2023 Issue: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done.

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

The bond has been decades in the making, but Russia’s war in Ukraine has tightened their embrace.

India will tout the meeting as a victory, but the bloc remains deeply divided.

The United States’ and Canada’s chief cyberdefenders talk adversaries and AI.

The semiconductor and its near-divine creation story.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 2: A new development in Guatemala’s election, China’s charm offensive, and African leaders’ call to the international community.

The United States has committed to keeping the peace but isn’t doing enough to stop the war.

His foundation is shifting away from Europe, while his own approach to China has hardened.

China has a fifth of the world’s population but just 9 percent of its arable land—and that bit is increasingly underwater.

Princeton University’s G. John Ikenberry on alliances and the new world order.

Putin’s weaponry runs on advanced electronic components obtained from a hidden international market.

As the economy declines, the CCP leans heavily on the army.

“We are competing with each other in what has become a pure rat race.”

To withstand threats from China’s economic troubles, Xi stays focused on security.

Policy mistakes have mired the country in “Xi-flation.”

The Chinese leader’s absence from the summit in New Delhi raises questions about political affairs in Beijing.

With U.S. military superiority in Asia no longer a given, defense planners need a different strategy.

China’s EV industry is ascendant everywhere—except the U.S. Is that about to change?

The group’s countries share one concern—the growing use of U.S. sanctions to restrict trade and investment globally. 

The last international agreement on digital crime was in 2001. Why are experts so worried about this one?

Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies.

The bloc’s new members include countries New Delhi is keen to expand ties with.

The absence of foreigners in the country is a symptom of China’s restrictive, security-driven view of the world.

New additions to the bloc from Africa are linked by their opposition to a Western-dominated financial system.

State-supported anger in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima wastewater release follows a nationalist script.

But it is a warning shot for the West to end its strategic slumber in the global south.

Pacific nations are bearing the brunt of the new cold war.

Three of Washington’s most beloved residents are heading back home, ending an era amid frostiness in U.S.-China relations.

The world’s decentralized internet is coming under competition.

The collapse of a landmark agreement would deal another blow to already fraught U.S.-China research collaborations.

The successful lunar mission, coming on the heels of Russian failure, could accelerate a long-running space race.

The buzzword is everywhere, but defining the concept of U.S.-China de-risking isn’t so easy.

The post-COVID generation has lost faith in the system.

Investors and the Chinese public alike are losing faith in Beijing’s ability to stave off a serious downturn.

Amid a stalemate at the border, it’s clear that Xi Jinping still has the upper hand.

A recent report on the solar industry’s connections to Xinjiang shows mixed results.

Americans and Chinese have to rehumanize each other in terms of the way we conceive of our problems and engage.

The logic of reducing dependence always ends in a downward spiral.

Experts assess the country’s faltering economy.

New tech restrictions are limited—but still escalatory.

The global south is hungry for an alternative to the Western-dominated order, but BRICS may not be up to the task.

Preventing catastrophe is now as much about sticks as it is about carrots.

Sen. Tim Scott has been called soft on China. That doesn’t convince the base, and he’s enlisted hawks to toughen him up.

At least 5,000 foreigners are in Chinese prisons—many for political reasons.

A small state in India’s northeast is experiencing deadly ethnic conflict.

The Biden administration’s issues-based approach to working with China was misguided from the start.

Beijing’s attempts to encircle New Delhi are being systematically reversed.

New restrictions on U.S. investments in high-tech sectors follow a trend of foreign firms fading out.

The Florida governor looks to correct his slide in the polls with a major China speech.

Tokyo successfully built alternative supply chains after tensions rose.

A new campaign is blurring the lines of what’s implicated in forced labor.

Personnel are secondary in a Xi-dominated system.

The decision to protect Beijing by diverting water prompts widespread anger in Hebei province.

Heather Boushey defends the administration’s industrial policy approach.

It all depends on the answers to these five questions.

Why Rome's decision is being seen as a 'major humiliation' for Beijing.

Mediation offers from China aren’t made in good faith.

Most global powers with a military presence or financial stake in the country stand to lose from instability—and that could put pressure on the military junta.

The apparent purge comes amid a renewed crackdown on corruption in the military.

Silicon Valley’s congressman on how to reset the U.S.-China relationship.

The policy has tried to address everything from the climate crisis to the rivalry with China.

So-called everything apps fail outside of China—and aren’t doing great there.