It’s about China, stupid

A controversial Koch-backed appointment is retracted, ostensibly over Middle East issues. But the battle is really about China.

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China

The former secretary of state’s 1972 opening to China badly weakened the U.S. By dispensing with that conceit, Trump shows he intends for America to win the great-power competition.

The debate over the nomination of Elbridge ‘Bridge’ Colby pits some of Donald Trump’s most prominent second-term supporters against the president’s own policies

Skyrocketing foreign student enrollment at American universities is giving foreign governments power over what our universities teach while acculturating American students in third-world hatreds

To avoid losing to China or going down the Chinese path of state control, we need a national strategy for artificial intelligence. Here’s where it should start.

Far from being uncooperative, Saudi Arabia under MBS is playing precisely the regional role that Obama and Biden have long demanded—only more so

A China-brokered agreement with Iran shocked and dismayed Washington, whose mercurial policy gyrations are getting harder for the Saudis to understand

This Passover, we think of the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and other captive peoples whose struggle for freedom and cultural survival parallels our own

The new Beijing-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a warning sign of things to come

20 years after the Goldman report, the BRICS are floundering

An exclusive report on how law enforcement agencies used FEMA funds to buy drones from a company tied to the Chinese government

Conversations with former DEA agents reveal how a nexus of Chinese producers and Mexican cartels brought the deadly drug into the U.S.

The world is infinitely broader and more interesting when it isn’t viewed through the lens of one’s identity