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Ethan Kessler weighs in on US military preparedness to deal with any potential Chinese aggression toward Taiwan.

"Foreign audiences should read [China's] resolution as a benchmark manifesto in the Party’s quest for China’s global power and legitimacy," writes Paul Heer in National Interest.

Ivo Daalder speaks with Roger Hilton about alliances, de-dollarization, sanctions, and relations with China at the GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum.

Dina Smeltz shares public opinion on the key topics that will be discussed at the first 2020 presidential debate.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey indicates the US and Japan have mutually positive views of each other’s leadership efforts.

Elizabeth Shackleford joins Grid Media to discuss U.S. policy toward Africa, and the balancing act between “not dictating” and effecting change.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey indicates Americans view Japan as a close and trusted ally.

With President Biden's latest escalation of the China-US trade war, the world is now a far cry from the "golden age" of globalized trade, Paul Poast argues.

“Western powers possess the innate strength necessary to contain Russia and outcompete China,” writes Ivo Daalder in Foreign Affairs.

Actions by other players—including China’s neighbors and the United States—are key drivers of Beijing’s perception of the international environment and responses to it, Paul Heer explains.

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

Is China's spy balloon a wakeup call for closer monitoring of US airspace? Craig Kafura explores the answer with Brandis Friedman and Ian Hurd.

Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow and meeting with Putin made clear that China-Russia relations will only grow stronger, Paul Poast writes.

Nonresident Senior Fellow Theresa Fallon weighs in on the opportunities the war in Ukraine presents to both Russia and China.

If the U.S. wants to counter China’s military expansion, it cannot afford to jeopardize security ties with India.

"It’s not too late for China and the United States to achieve some level of mutual understanding and common purpose," Paul Heer writes.

Vietnam is likely the Trump administration’s next trade target. But the calculus differs in key ways from China.

"There's a little bit of FOMO if we aren't going to be there, that we're afraid of missing out on places that Russia and China are really prioritizing."

The Trump administration helped fuel the worst downward spiral in US-China relations since diplomatic normalization more than forty years ago.

David Scheffer argues for Washington to employ "a powerful lawfare deterrent" towards China in the case of an invasion of Taiwan.

To mitigate competition between China and members of the Quad, subnational diplomacy must take center stage, argues Matt Abbott in the Diplomat.

"Notwithstanding China’s firm grip on global supply chains of critical minerals and rare earths, Canada can support a more predictable green transition."

A key purpose of the meeting is to create a countercoalition against Russia and China, Paul Poast argues.

Washington should ditch the military rhetoric and refocus efforts on work with China and Mexico, Emma Sanderson argues.

Paul Poast argues that President Biden's declaration that the US would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China deserves a serious look.

Paul Heer examines the Taiwan conundrum — one of the thorniest and most fraught issues confronting the new Biden foreign policy team as it navigates the US-China relationship.

In this episode, Garrison host's John C. Austin for a discussion of his theory of "Ally On-Shoring", a proposed method of economic and security cooperation among democracies in the face of the rising challenges of a revisionist China abroad and a

"If Taiwan […] is part of an international struggle against the PRC, how is that not a de facto ‘one China, one Taiwan’ policy?” writes Paul Heer in National Interest.

Russian economics and politics cannot be separated, argues Elizabeth Shackelford on Al Jazeera. “If you have questions about that, just ask China.”

As world leaders meet in Japan, they are likely to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and economic coercion from China, Craig Kafura tells Steve Scully.

New polls find that 52 percent of Americans now favor sending US troops to defend Taiwan if China invades. Craig Kafura talks to Taiwan Plus about what this means.

Both the United States and China claim to want peace and stability. But keeping the peace will require foregoing zero-sum games, something neither side looks ready to do.

To meet the public demand to compete with China, “the Defense Department needs the budget required to do it,” writes Chet Lee in Defense One.

Ally-shoring describes a program of sourcing essential materials, goods, and services with trusted friends while disengaging from China and other states that seek to undermine American interests from critical supply chains.

Despite Washington and Beijing’s apparent satisfaction with the meeting, the tensions at the heart of the relationship show no signs of abating, Paul Heer writes.

Military conscription is a good start, but leaders in Taipei need to act with greater urgency still, Ethan Kessler writes.

We enter the ’20s at a time when American power and influence continues to wane, China’s is increasing and people all around the world are making clear that their voices need to be heard.

Kris Hartley and Asit K. Biswas discuss intellectual property protection and diplomacy through vaccine provision.

"In order for democracies to compete with authoritarian regimes like China, they have to prove that they can deliver for their people at home," Council President Daalder tells CNN.

“The agreement is about far more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh,” argue Nonresident Senior Fellow Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi.

“We can use Big Data to understand and communicate the planetary crisis while simultaneously measuring progress,” Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah writes in Foreign Policy.

One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not

"As the new year rolls in, mutual distrust continues to obstruct mutual understanding," Paul Heer writes.

Cities recognize the importance of city diplomacy but also lack necessary resources to fulfill the commitments they make to global agendas, Council fellows Kris Hartley and Michele Acuto explain.

There is little doubt that the WHO was slow in responding to the danger represented by the emergence of a potentially new virus in China and that it was too willing to accept Beijing’s statements of what was happening. It should have known better.

Council President Ivo Daalder explains why China and Russia are the biggest threats to the transatlantic alliance in a segment for the UK's Channel 4 news.

Mainstream political parties on both the right and the left are scrambling to capture the momentum and accommodate what they see as a profoundly nationalist moment in global politics.

"Right now, I think Russia represents the bigger threat. China represents the bigger long-term competition," says Council President Ivo Daalder, discussing the 2022 Chicago Council Survey.

China’s balloon was not a “real strategic threat,” says Bruce Jentleson. “Our satellites overfly China all the time and theirs overfly us.”

Craig Kafura joins Chicago Tonight to discuss Speaker Pelosi's Taiwan trip and whether or not it complicates the relationship between the US and China.