Diplomacy & International Relations

Friends to All: Southeast Asia Diversifies, but ASEAN Falters (Colleen Scribner – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The outcomes of the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, held during intensifying US-China competition, did not reflect alignment with either superpower...

The Trump-Xi Summit: A Fragile Trade Truce, Not a Reset, Emerges (Bonnie S. Glaser – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

There was considerable anxiety ahead of US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in South Korea. Many feared the president...

Ahead of APEC, Trump Signs Flurry of Bilateral Minerals Agreements on Asia Tour (Gracelin Baskaran and Meredith Schwartz – Center for Strategic & International...

On October 27, President Trump embarked on a tour of Asia ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. Over the...

Trump Has Sufficient Firepower to Launch Immediate Strikes on Venezuela (Mark F. Cancian and Chris H. Park – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

U.S. air strikes against military targets inside Venezuela reportedly “could come at any moment,” as the president pursues both a war on drug cartels...

Celebrating the Arsonist (Council on Foreign Relations)

CFR President Michael Froman lays out the takeaways from this week’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the...

U.S. Trade Policy Sends Geopolitical Ripples Through Pacific Rim (Zongyuan Zoe Liu, David Sacks, Stephen Sestanovich, Joshua Kurlantzick, and Will Freeman – Council on...

Five CFR fellows explain how growing concern with U.S. trade policy in certain APEC members—China, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile, and Peru—will affect U.S. economic and security relationships in the region. U.S. Trade Policy Sends...

Twenty-five years on, advancing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda is more urgent than ever (Melanne Verveer and Ana Lejava – Atlantic Council)

Twenty-five years ago today, the United Nations (UN) Security Council, under the chairmanship of Namibia, unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security—a...

What does the US drawdown in Romania mean for European defense? (Atlantic Council)

On Wednesday, the Romanian defense ministry and US military announced that the United States will withdraw a brigade of troops that had been rotating...

Experts react: What does the Trump-Xi meeting mean for trade, technology, security, and beyond? (Atlantic Council)

On a scale of zero to ten: “twelve.” That’s how US President Donald Trump rated his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an...

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