On May 13, 2026, Air Force One landed in Beijing for President Donald Trump’s first state visit to China in nearly a decade. That same morning, the China

African states have considerable agency to shape their own digital governance and are not simply accepting models imposed on them by China or other external actors.

African states have considerable agency to shape their own digital governance and are not simply accepting models imposed on them by China or other external actors.

Western tariffs accelerated its transformation into a sophisticated extension of China’s industrial policy.

Dame Freya Stark, an iconoclastic British world traveler, writer, and keen observer of international affairs, met a great many important leaders in her time. Not all of them inspired her. She was nevertheless awe-struck by Henry Stimson when she met him shortly after he became secretary of war. He was, Stark wrote, “a rock-like and benevolent old man who might have stepped out of the Mayflower, so shining was he in his integrity.”

Washington, D.C., December 15, 2025 - The National Security Archive mourns the passing of our beloved colleague William Burr, the documentary leader of the nuclear history field, on December 11, 2025....

What if China’s global port empire isn’t the master plan Washington fears, but a patchwork of messy deals shaped as much by local politics as Beijing’s

Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...

The alignment of domestic socioeconomic interests is a key driver for continued Sino-Iranian cooperation, despite U.S.-led sanctions.