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U.S. President Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Germany

Angela Merkel’s “ambivalent” legacy

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, July 16, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are seen before a meeting between senior defence officials from both countries at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo

China

The Cold War is a poor analogy for today’s US-China tensions

Ryan Hass and Jessica Chen Weiss

Monday, July 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: German and Chinese national flags fly in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

On The Record

What is Angela Merkel’s legacy on engagement with China

Torrey Taussig, Andrew Small, Noah Barkin, Philippe Le Corre, and Theresa Fallon

Friday, July 2, 2021

NEW DELHI, INDIA MARCH 20: Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sit to deliver a joint press statement at Vigyan Bhawan, on March 20, 2021 in New Delhi, India. Lloyd Austin arrived in New Delhi hours after a meeting between the foreign ministers and NSAs of the US and China in Alaska got off to a bumpy start, with testy exchanges between the two sides in full view of the media. The top officials from India and the United States Saturday said the two countries will expand their military engagement, underscoring a sign of strengthening defense ties between the two democracies amid China growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region. (Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Sipa USA )No Use Germany.

India

Will India balance China in Asia? The US can only hope

Tanvi Madan and Tobin Harshaw

Friday, May 21, 2021

A bird flies near the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat building, ahead of the ASEAN leaders' meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia’s great power dynamics

Jonathan Stromseth and Sebastian Strangio

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Screenshot image shows U.S. President Joe Biden speaking during a two-day virtual climate summit that kicked off on April 22, 2021. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

Climate Change

Brookings experts comment on Biden’s climate summit

Samantha Gross, Nathan Hultman, Amar Bhattacharya, and Sanjay Patnaik

Friday, April 23, 2021

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a joint press conference after their talks at the White House in Washington on April 16, 2021. Biden had his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since he took office in January amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

Japan

Biden-Suga meeting highly successful

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Federal police officers stand on the back of pick-up trucks while leaving a patio of the building housing the Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City February 27, 2015. Mexico has captured the country's most wanted drug lord still at large, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, police said on Friday, in a boost for President Enrique Pena Nieto as he grapples with grisly gang violence. Gomez, 49, was the prime target of Pena Nieto's drive to regain control of Michoacan, a violent western state wracked by clashes between Gomez's Knights Templar cartel and heavily-armed vigilantes trying to oust them. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (MEXICO - Tags: DRUGS SOCIETY CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Illicit Trade

Legalizing drugs and illegal economies is no panacea for Latin America and the rest of the world

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Catalina Niño

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivers the 2020 national day address, as troops of honor guards parading, saluting for the 109th annivesary of the establishment of the country, in Taipei City, Taiwan, on 10 October 2020. In her speech, Tsai stressed her administration's determination to safeguard national security of theisland and outlined the country's post-pandemic economic strategies. (Ceng Shou Yi/ SIPA USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Taiwan

Understanding Beijing’s motives regarding Taiwan, and America’s role

John Culver and Ryan Hass

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Demonstration in Idlib city. Syria, Idlib 3/18 2021:Syrians attend a mass demonstration to commemorate the first Syrian security forces invasion and siege of the city of Daraa, a process that lasted ten days, and that event led to the uprising of protests in most Syrian cities and that was part of the Arab Spring. Copyright: xahmadxfallahax No Use Switzerland. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use Austria

Syria

Syrian uprising 10-year anniversary: A political economy perspective

Steven Heydemann and Jihad Yazigi

Friday, March 26, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meet virtually with counterparts in the Quad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan, from the State Dining Room of the White House.Featuring: Joe Biden, Antony BlinkenWhere: Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesWhen: 12 Mar 2021Credit: Jim LoScalzo/POOL via CNP/InStar/Cover Images

India

How Ladakh badly damaged ties with China and how India shed its reluctance on the Quad

Saturday, March 13, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker in this illustration taken, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo/File Photo

Asia & the Pacific

Quad leaders announce effort to get 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines to Asia

Friday, March 12, 2021

A seminarian places ash on the forehead of a church goer inside St. Patricks Cathedral on Ash Wednesday in New York, NY, February 17, 2021. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Religion & Politics

Have Americans traded religious belief for political belief?

Friday, March 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Chinese official prepares the flags for the China-USA bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

On The Record

The long crisis of order

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting with businesspeople in Istanbul, Turkey, January 15, 2021. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

Turkey

Erdogan will not freeze his relationship with Russia

Monday, February 1, 2021