President Trump brought some of America’s biggest tech CEOs to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping. What does it mean for the race over AI power? Council on Foreign Relations’ Chris McGuire explains.

The fallout from the removal of President Pedro Castillo has revealed a young democracy in dire straits.

The US and China may not want a war, but could they end up in one anyway? International relations historian Odd Arne Westad explains why he sees echoes of the years before World War I and the “warning” they hold for today. 

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After nearly four years at the Council, Alesha Miller, Center on Global Food and Agriculture managing director, steps down.

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This week’s incidents speak to a growing, and concerning, trust deficit between the United States and its closest European ally.   

Mass arrests have reduced crime in the short-term—but at a significant cost to human rights.

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