China-U.S. relations face both opportunities and challenges. At least within this year, and particularly given the three ...

Attempting to use “rebalancing” as an excuse for applying pressure on another country or for excluding a particular country ...

The policy is turning the world from a rules-based order to a strength-based one. January’s intervention in Venezuela may ...

Europe is increasingly applying the same economic-security standards to U.S. firms that it once reserved for China, reflecting growing concerns over strategic dependence and American jurisdiction.

Great powers can explore paths toward peaceful coexistence. The most important lesson of the Reykjavik Summit in 1986 was not that competition can be eliminated but that it requires clear boundaries.

For China, a prerequisite is characterizing the overall kind of relationship the two sides have before specific issues can be discussed. The United States has often taken the opposite approach, ...

Although small-scale rivalry and periodic tactical bargaining are likely to persist, a new equilibrium characterized by institutionalized cooperation—and occasional issue-specific divergence—may ...

When a small state assumes the protection of a bigger ally under any circumstance, conflicts erupt. Will the U.S. and China learn from history? Throughout history, small allies and clients have ...

Iran is increasingly reorienting its foreign policy and economic strategy toward China and Eurasia, using expanded overland transport and energy links through Central and South Asia to reduce its ...

In the recently published China’s Military Strategy white paper, China’s overseas interests are stressed like never before. Securing China’s overseas interests is taken as one of the “strategic tasks” ...