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Trump’s reelection will redefine US power, Daniel Drezner writes.

We have four years to find out whether policies Washington pursues on the global stage are the product of who is in office or of the country’s position in the international order, Paul Poast writes.

"When the US inaugurates Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, the country and world will be very different because of it," Ivo Daalder writes.

Paul Heer weighs in on the Sino-US rivalry and the prospects of war over Taiwan.

"Pyongyang has a propensity to take actions ... aimed at reminding the West—and specifically the US—that it should not be be ignored," Paul Poast writes.

The Council's Ivo Daalder joins Gideon Rachman to discuss the potential threat to US democracy if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election.

Craig Kafura offers his take on how both a Trump or Harris administration might approach US-Taiwan policy.

"Washington and Beijing, driven by false assumptions, will probably continue the cycle of interactive steps that risk escalating bilateral tensions," Paul Heer argues.

"Participants ranked the country 26 out of 100 on the Council’s 0–100 feeling thermometer, which dropped China 32 spots from its 2022 position," The Hill's Ashleigh Fields writes.

A majority now say the United States should work to actively limit the growth of China's power, Council polling finds.