In Washington, China is generally defined as the primary systemic challenger to U.S. global leadership, technological primacy, economic dominance, and democratic norms. In Beijing, the United States ...

Amid a sea of disruptions—territorial threats against Denmark, missed alliance meetings by senior U.S. diplomats, and planned personnel reductions at NATO installations—the Trump administration’s ...

If the annexationists’ momentum is not checked very soon, their cumulative acts will increase the odds of renewed unrest, necessitate sustained Israel Defense Forces (IDF) mobil ...

In a November 2025 survey conducted by YouGov and designed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for example, 54 percent of respondents agreed that “the United States is becoming less ...

The war in Sudan is a battle for land and resources. Over nearly three years of conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces—the country’s regular army—and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have traded ...

China’s successful pursuit of innovation means that an authoritarian superpower is now capable of challenging the United States in East Asia, supporting autocracies worldwide, and shaping global ...

This month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos and delivered a blunt verdict on the international order. For decades, he argued, Western countries ...

MAX BERGMANN is Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The two countries employ 70 percent of the world’s top machine learning researchers, command 90 percent of global computing power, and attract the vast majority of AI investment—more than twice the ...

When China’s property market collapsed in 2021, its leaders scrambled to find a new driver of economic growth to replace housing construction. More investment in infrastructure, which had powered much ...

LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of the forthcoming book Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions.

Conflict in the Middle East or along the Red Sea risks disrupting trade corridors or spooking foreign investors. In contrast, the UAE remains tethered to the same set of priorities that have driven ...