Commentary and Analysis

Dina Smeltz unpacks new Council data that show Americans across political parties are concerned about China's rise.

The biggest obstacle to American understanding of China appears to be Washington’s seeming determination to misunderstand it, Paul Heer argues.

Balancing power or increasing risk? Deep Dish explores what a multilateral defense pact for Asia might mean.

Freshly returned from a trip to China, three local execs share impressions on the current state of U.S. relations there — and what that country's recent downturn means for Chicago's economy.

"A China beginning to lose the underpinnings of its new-found international influence could prove even more dangerous," John Austin writes.

The spate of civil-military crises is a product of countries dealing with their new positions in a shifting global order, Paul Poast argues.

Both foreign policy leaders and the American public back “friendshoring."

Washington and Beijing see themselves locked in a zero-sum competition doubling as an existential ideological struggle, Paul Heer writes.

Paul Heer weighs in on how Xi Jinping thinks and what role the intelligence community should play in foreign policy.

Even if BRICS has not yet accomplished anything concrete, the message of dissatisfaction its expansion sends to the West is deafening, Paul Poast writes.