China surprised everyone Tuesday night by acknowledging GDP growth well below 5 percent. The official rate is 4.3 percent for the second quarter and 4.7 percent for the first half, to just over $10.1 ...

The Eurasian Century is a historical and strategic tour de force, broad-ranging and full of insights. Above all, it is a necessary book, an analysis that should be required reading for everyone who ...

It’s totally understandable that anyone who supports an economic system built around the idea of free enterprise—private businesses making decisions based on price and profit signals in a competitive ...

Physicist and nuclear weapons expert David Albright says the claim that Iran emerged stronger from the war is simply bunk.

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

Through years of neglect, the challenge of corruption in Mexico has grown to unsustainable levels, with significant repercussions domestically and abroad. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The China & Taiwan Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

At the end of 2024, the China Global Investment Tracker completed its second decade. Over this period, it has documented $2.5 trillion in Chinese investment and construction combined. The early years ...

The Workforce Futures Initiative is a research collaboration among the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener ...