Commentary and Analysis

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 June congressional report revealed the two companies are taking advantage of a U.S. shipping provision that allows them to avoid paying tariffs on orders and to “circumvent” a U.S. law that aims to protect Uyghurs in China from being forced to produce cotton products.

"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.

Deep Dish confronts America’s deadly fentanyl crisis and the struggle to stop the flood of fentanyl from entering the country.

Steven Erlanger, Bobby Ghosh, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.