With Washington prioritizing deal-making over competition, Beijing’s confidence is growing—and the risk of miscalculation is rising. Could China use America’s time-out from strategic competition to surpass it economically, technologically, and geopolitically?

Trump and Xi are meeting in Beijing to try to reset US-China relations at a moment of growing instability. Oriana Skylar Mastro breaks down China’s ambitions and what could come next.

Americans are generally distrustful of China's handling of international relations, but recent polling finds that Americans have a more negative view on China than ever before.

October 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Dmitri Lovetsky / AP, Download Report (PDF), While Republicans remain focused on limiting China's rise, a majority of Americans now favor a policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing., US President Donald Trump and Chinese P...

The Iran war is presenting the greatest test yet of the limits of America's power in an increasingly multipolar world.

Asian Americans are less likely than other racial or ethnic groups to say China’s rise is a “critical” threat to the United States.

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.