China

Washington needs to foster innovation to beat Beijing.

Beijing makes hollow promises of nonintervention as it meddles with its neighbors.

What do Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine have in common? Critical minerals.

Washington is rapidly destroying its international goodwill while Moscow and Beijing cheer along.

The shock approach causes amusement and concern in Beijing.

Beijing could provide an economic lifeline as EU countries increase defense spending and weather tariffs.

Trump thinks he can follow in Nixon’s footsteps.

Alibaba is trying to reshape itself to match Xi Jinping’s ambitions.

A meeting with top CEOs signaled the economic importance of entrepreneurs—as long as they can pay court to him.

Washington can take steps now to avoid a catastrophe.

Beijing won’t say so in public, but it sees new geopolitical opportunities.

And why coffee prices are surging in commodity markets.

Jerry Cohen has spent a lifetime trying to understand the People’s Republic.

The economic own goals are bad. The strategic backfires are worse.

Washington’s focus on development assistance and democracy promotion has failed. Relationships based on commercial engagement are the answer.

Beijing stands to lose indirect access to the U.S. market, but it will be hard to dent its heavy industry.

The middle power has found a way to survive without bending the knee to Beijing.

China is fighting back, but other countries will struggle to respond.

Declaring a national emergency to exact concessions is a ploy to seize authority.

Despite the recent thaw in tensions, the bilateral relationship is poised to remain tumultuous in 2025.

The U.S. president’s ambitions for “reciprocity” aren’t limited to China.

He isn’t the first U.S. president to try to establish one, but the initiative faces several obstacles.

The administration aimed to outcompete China. Four years later, here’s how it measured up.

The U.S. president’s designs on Gaza and other territories mirror China’s failed wolf warrior diplomacy.

On FP Live, three experts on three continents try to find the signal in the noise.

There is a long history of affronts against the country’s sovereignty.

Beijing has ended up the sole target of new U.S. tariffs—so far.

A dual economic and mental health crisis may be driving a wave of attacks.

Washington faces a daunting but critical task.

Fighting with China won’t bring jobs home.

Countries will retaliate as much as they’re willing to hurt themselves—or make a point.

AI models are getting all the attention right now, but China and the United States are already competing for a new prize.

A bargain between the two superpowers could preserve global peace. But what would it cost?

The Chinese AI lab has put to rest any illusion that Beijing is behind.

Beijing’s threats in the region have changed Manila’s approach to security.

The Chinese firm’s success might not be a case for massive government investment in the sector.

The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

Unlike Trump, Xi understood that a new class of business titans could hijack his country’s political system.

Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes.

New internet infrastructure helps Matsu Islanders cope with cable cuts.

Beijing allows trans people to undergo affirming surgery and change their legal genders. But there’s a catch: Parental consent is required—at any age.

Trump’s dubiously legal extension offer for the app to find a buyer leaves the ball in Beijing’s court.

Increasing climate and geopolitical risks are making living in the former and doing business in the latter uninsurable.

This time around, Modi and Trump should seize the opportunity to strike a substantial bilateral agreement.

With the (sort of) end of Russian uranium imports, a challenge looms: How to fuel the next generation of reactors?

The U.N. ambassador-nominee might face questions about Trump’s threats to U.S. allies, relations with Russia on the Security Council, and more.

Once again, Eurasian autocracies seek to upend the balance of power.

Frank McCourt sees the Chinese-owned social media platform as a catalyst for a deeper conversation.

The Supreme Court has upheld the ban. Here’s what to know about the popular social media app’s future.

A renewed agreement may help stabilize a turbulent relationship.

States often reveal a new weapon of war during peacetime to substitute for more direct military confrontations.

Beijing is happy with anything that helps Russia win and costs it nothing.

DJI has ended enforced no-fly zones in U.S. markets.

The Supreme Court seems poised to uphold a law that will ban the Chinese-owned app unless it is sold.

A rogue America is among the biggest threats of 2025.

A conversation with the International Crisis Group’s Comfort Ero.

The Meta CEO’s U.S. political changes will have complicated global consequences. 

The blocking of the Nippon Steel bid for U.S. Steel has angered Tokyo and opens the door to politics as economics.

A Phase Two negotiation isn’t out of the question. Washington must get it right this time.

The full extent of the hack is not yet public, but it has hardened anti-China consensus.

The world will come together once it realizes fragmentation makes everyone poorer.

The Chinese-funded industry is a world leader, but safety hasn’t kept up.

The U.S. president-elect’s second term will begin in a vastly different global landscape than his first.

The irony of his leadership is that a seemingly transformational figure cannot embrace change.

From Moldova to Mexico, these conflicts are currently flying under the radar but could emerge as major flash points.

From India’s relations with rivals to Sri Lanka’s democratic shift, here’s what to keep an eye on this year.

Foreign Policy’s columnists share what’s on their radar this year.

From a brewing trade war to opportunities on the global stage, here’s what we’re watching in the new year.

The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.

Readers followed the U.S. presidential election as well as coverage of the war in Ukraine, China’s military, and India’s role on the world stage.

The American people had a big decision to make this year, but was there ultimately more continuity than change in their choice?

This year showed that there is no end in sight to the problems that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.

FP Live’s annual tradition of recounting the biggest highlights and trends of the year.

FP Live’s guests included the WTO secretary-general and U.S. ambassador to China.

This year, countries and companies debated how the technology should be regulated.

Foreign Policy’s best deep dives of the year.

Will 2024 be the calm before the storm for Beijing?

Officials say hackers linked to China have unprecedented access to U.S. telecommunication networks.

U.S. firms are caught in China’s regulatory crossfire, with billions at stake.

There are obstacles to achieving closer ties on both sides, but Beijing could find a way to strike deals.

The International Development Finance Corporation has put the United States more on the map, but China remains king of global infrastructure.

To compete in the region, a second Trump administration needs to do more than saber-rattle.

A central question is where the president-elect will land on tariffs—and how China might retaliate.

An ambitious show both celebrates and obfuscates the Asian American experience.

What Bashar al-Assad’s fall means for Syria, the Middle East, and beyond.

Expect chaos as an unpredictable president uses trade threats to pursue whatever unrelated issue he wishes.

Beijing reflects on its losing bet on the Assad regime.

How the West can avoid the next Northvolt going south.

New U.S. export controls on China—and Beijing’s immediate countermeasures—have set the tone for the incoming administration.

U.S. allies must prepare for an administration that views almost any tie to China as a source of vulnerability.

K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.

Russian and Chinese gray-zone aggression prove that dreams of a peaceful “NATO lake” were premature.

A longtime political commissar faces an investigation that will likely lead to detention.

The intervention of Asian powers in Europe nullifies decades of U.S. strategic planning.

How a global hit sparked digital paranoia inside U.S. intelligence.

COP29’s new goal poses a challenge to wealthy countries and international financial institutions.

A call for a “high-quality population” ignores the country’s real problems.

There are eerie parallels between today’s Republican Party and the start of China’s Cultural Revolution.

As the U.S. president-elect issues new threats, Beijing is already bracing for a shift.

The agreement triples climate finance, but developing countries say it’s far from enough.