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People hold U.S. and China flags as they attend a celebration of the Lunar New Year, in the Chinatown section of Manhattan in New York City, U.S., January 29, 2025.

U.S. Foreign Policy Does the United States need a China rethink?

Ling Chen, Ryan Hass, Jennifer Kavanagh, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Jones, Mireya Solís, Thomas Wright

July 2, 2025

People gather at the Hands Off Iran rally at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Sunday, June 22, 2025.

Iran The global implications of the US strikes on Iran

Pavel K. Baev, Robert Einhorn, Sharan Grewal, Samantha Gross, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Elizabeth N. Saunders, Yun Sun, Caitlin Talmadge, Shibley Telhami, Andrew Yeo

July 1, 2025

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds a multilateral meeting with ASEAN defence leaders on sidelines of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, in Singapore, May 30, 2025.

Security Alliances & Partnerships Possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Southeast Asia can help US maintain focus

Ryan Hass

July 1, 2025

(From L) Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz pose within a meeting between the NATO Secretary General, the president of Ukraine, and leaders of E5 countries during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025.

Foreign Politics & Elections Beyond the NATO summit, key questions remain for European security

Tara Varma

June 26, 2025

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Hady Amr Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Manuel Muñiz Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

R. David Edelman Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Jaclyn A. Kerr Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology,

Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Scott R. Anderson Fellow - Governance Studies, The Section 230 Project, General Counsel and Senior Editor - Lawfare

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