Reports that Xi will forgo addressing the United Nations General Assembly ahead of his meeting with Trump in Washington raise uncomfortable questions about the role of multilateral institutions under great power compacts.
Vice President of Research for Geostrategy and Diplomacy Raymond Kuo asks, “If you’re not even willing to do an exercise with a country you’re formally allied to, are you going to show up when North Korea starts firing missiles at South Koreans?”
"[China] had a clear sense of priorities," Council Marshall M. Bouton Senior Fellow for Asia Studies Raymond Kuo shared while unpacking the Trump-Xi summit on Chicago Tonight.
"The United States needs China to some extent more than China needs us," Council Marshall M. Bouton Senior Fellow for Asia Studies Raymond Kuo tells WGN's The Point.
The Beijing meeting gives the United States an opportunity to push back on a Chinese narrative that worsens the bargaining positions of both Washington and Taipei.
The Iran war’s ripple effects risk obscuring festering divisions within the Southeast Asian bloc—most notably its inability to develop a region-wide approach to Washington and Beijing.
In advance of the the Council's America at 250 Global Forum, experts share how changes in American leadership, alliances, and global engagement shaped the nation’s first 250 years—and what the current moment reveals about the next.
