The past year of U.S.-Chinese relations has been extraordinary and head-spinning. In the spring of 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a de facto trade embargo on China, a measure swiftly ...

Trump did not definitively sell out Taiwan or other U.S. Indo-Pacific allies while in Beijing, which was both a relief and an affirming outcome for those who reject the spheres of influence approach.

The conclusion of the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping marks the culmination of a turbulent moment in U.S.-Chinese relations. After a year of escalation and ...

The People’s Republic of China was founded in opposition to empire. The Chinese Communist Party built its identity on anti-imperialism, presenting itself as the vanguard of a global struggle against ...

Their pivot came after months of corporate silence as the administration ratcheted up its pressure on Powell and on Fed Governor Lisa Cook. In corporate America during the Trump era, the public and ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Beijing this week, it will be a modern standoff with the unmistakable overtones of single combat. Summits are often less ...

But the Trump administration’s approach is not reciprocity at all. It is coercive unilateralism dressed up as reciprocity. The United States has pursued reciprocal trade for the past 90 years, but ...

In its geostrategic global competition with the United States, China utilizes a mixture of instruments to expand its footprint and advance its interests. These can be measured in four categories: ...

MATTHEW SHARP is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked on nuclear issues at the State Department and at ...

What Xi wants from Trump—and Trump might get from Xi.

Forms of insecurity, particularly kidnapping for ransom, are pervasive across the country, but armed violence is unfolding in four main theaters. In the northeast, two jihadi groups, Boko Haram and ...