U.S. Foreign Policy

Phone with TikTok app open, over U.S. and Chinese flags

Why is the Trump administration banning TikTok and WeChat?

Friday, August 7, 2020

Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song

More pain than gain: How the US-China trade war hurt America

Ryan Hass and Abraham Denmark

Friday, August 7, 2020

Photo of U.S. and Chinese flags. June 29, 2019. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

Watch: Debating what China’s rise means for American interests in Asia

Adam Twardowski

Thursday, August 6, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens while Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of State following the 30th AUSMIN in Washington, D.C. July 28, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS

In annual meeting, a new direction for US-Australia alliance

Lindsey Ford and Ashley Townshend

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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

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

Annika Betancourt

Friday, July 31, 2020

Flags of Kenya and the United States

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

Witney Schneidman and Brionne Dawson

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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

Pompeo’s surreal speech on China

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

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

Robert D. Williams

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The front of the Brookings Institution is pictured.

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

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president, left, listens during a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Lopez Obrador has carefully built a rapport with Trump, even as the president lambasted Mexico for its drug cartels and crime rates, for migration flows into the U.S. and for allegedly taking advantage of America on trade. Photographer: Al Drago/Pool/Sipa USANo Use UK. No Use Germany.

The damage Trump’s wall causes in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, July 20, 2020