Should the United States take a more militarized or diplomatic approach in Taiwan-China relations?

June 12, 2015, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Joshua Busby , Gregory Holyk , and Jonathan Monten, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), Across party lines, the results of this survey reveal that the US public and leaders largely agree on US foreign policy., Un...

October 20, 2023 Check out our roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

November 30, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), But a majority of Americans support efforts to mitigate its effects., Climate change has affected the lives of every American in some way, yet it is a highly polarizing and divisive issue. The 202...

The G20 summit carried on without the United States this year. Here’s what the leaders' declaration reveals about the rest of the world's priorities.

November 17, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Louise Delmotte / AP, Download Report (PDF), Still, the US public prefers to maintain the status quo across the Taiwan Strait rather than risk military confrontation with Beijing., Since the United States formally recognized the P...

The new strategy "suggests a very geographically grounded way of thinking about defense," former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told the Council. She explains what it could mean for China, the war in Ukraine, and US alliances—and what comes next.

October 12, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), For the first time, a majority of Republicans think the United States should stay out of world affairs., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds evi...

MAY 6, 2019, Despite tensions between the United States and Mexico sparked from the Trump administration’s push to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), along with the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs, Mexicans and Americans largely agree on the benefits and impor...

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