Commentary

"Around the world, autocrats have recognized the power of comedians to puncture preferred narratives, undermine authority and stoke dissent," Suzanne Nossel writes.

"Business and economics will be front and center," Julián Ventura says, noting the upcoming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

"Mass citizen protests have driven the region’s most dramatic political changes in recent years," Paul Staniland writes.

"Donald Trump, at some level, approaches this visit from a position of great strength," Leslie Vinjamuri tells BBC News. "For the prime minister, it's a very different story."

Karl Friedhoff weighs in on the challenges shaping South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's early leadership.

"We do see a high degree of confidence in China, in the Chinese public, in their country, and the direction that the government is taking their country," Dina Smeltz explains, citing new Council-Carter Center data.

"Until the great powers can either agree—or at least agree to disagree—on what comes next, the new world order will remain radically incomplete," Daniel Drezner argues.

“There was a lot more subtlety in the data with a plurality, 48 percent, saying that China’s interested in a shared leadership role,” Paul Heer said of the new Council-Carter Center survey.

Seven in 10 Chinese people consider their country the greatest, per a new Chicago Council-Carter Center survey.

The idea that Trump is swaying Russia’s and India’s foreign policies misses a key point about great power politics, Paul Poast argues.