U.S. Foreign Policy

China

The United States, China, and the contest for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Rush Doshi

Friday, July 31, 2020

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Election integrity and security in the era of COVID-19

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The State Department Building is pictured in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Order from Chaos

To strengthen global leadership, America must foster and retain diversity in its diplomatic ranks

Annika Betancourt

Friday, July 31, 2020

Africa in Focus

The US and Kenya launch negotiations on a free trade agreement. Will they succeed?

Witney Schneidman and Brionne Dawson

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Reports

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel look into documents during the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Report

Fending off fentanyl and hunting down heroin: Controlling opioid supply from Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, is on display during a news conference at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, U.S., January 31, 2019. Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Report

Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: China's President Xi Jinping (R) speaks with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in front of a statue of Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez during a ceremony in Caracas July 21, 2014. China will provide Venezuela with a $4 billion credit line under an agreement signed on Monday, with the money to be repaid by oil shipments from OPEC member Venezuela. The deal was inked during a 24-hour visit to Venezuela by Xi, who is on a tour of Latin America. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo

Latin America & the Caribbean

China and Latin America: A pragmatic embrace

Ted Piccone

July 2020

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

China

Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, and Ted Reinert

July 2020

Blog Posts

PA via ReutersUnited States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo leaves the In And Out Club in London where he met backbench MPs ahead of meetings with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. PA Photo. Picture date: Tuesday July 21, 2020. During the visit Mr Pompeo is expected to discuss global priorities, including the Covid-19 economic recovery plans, issues related to China and Hong Kong, and the US-UK free trade agreement negotiations. He will leave the UK on July 22 to travel to Denmark. See PA story POLITICS China. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Order from Chaos

Pompeo’s surreal speech on China

Thomas Wright

Monday, July 27, 2020

A still image showing the Kuroshio Current around the coast of south east Asia, Japan and China taken from Perpetual Ocean, a visualization of some of the world's surface ocean currents from June 2005 through December 2007, supplied in this handout photo by NASA March 27, 2012. The visualization was produced using NASA/JPL's computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECC02, a high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - GM1E83S0SNG01

Order from Chaos

What did the US accomplish with its South China Sea legal statement?

Robert D. Williams

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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Order from Chaos

Bruce Blair, a driven man and a giant in the field of nuclear security

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

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The India-China-US triangle

Tanvi Madan, Jeremy Cliffe, and Emily Tamkin

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Friday, June 26, 2020

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Global Trade

Sen. Tom Carper on the trade issues confronting America

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Monday, June 15, 2020

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