The Chicago Council for Global Affairs

Prospects for positive breakthroughs and stabilization of the US-China relationship will remain limited as long as the two sides are focused more on maneuvering for advantage than on working to define the concept.

Oil-related prices are high, but poised to go even higher.

More than half of the US public supports a policy of cooperation and engagement with China, including a growing number of Republicans.

The conflict offers lessons for how to bolster European security with less support from the United States.

"Trump is clearly interested in pursuing a good relationship with President Xi," Council Director of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Craig Kafura tells NewsNation. "Now it's up to the working levels to see if they can make some of that top-down blessing produce real fruit."

"At a moment when Europe is focused on persuading Donald Trump to remain committed to NATO, it needs to convince Americans, too," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri writes.

"To meet the moment, independent oversight of AI will have to be empowered, equipped, and intrusive, treading where tech leaders will be predictably reluctant to let it go," Council Lester Crown Senior Nonresident Fellow Suzanne Nossel writes.