Amid all the uncertainty about the world that will follow the pandemic, one thing is almost sure to be true: tensions betweenthe United StatesandChinawill be even sharper than they were…

OnNovember 11, 1980, a car filled with writers was making its way along a rain-slick highway to a conference inMadrid. The subject of the meeting was the human rights movement in theSoviet Union, and…

U.S.PresidentDonald Trumphas held three summits withKim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, in the last three years and still failed to secure a denuclearization agreement.John Bolton, the formerU.S…

Politicians in Lebanon are no longer responsible for the grim state the country has reached. On one hand, there is a group that blames the policies of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah for…

Hong Kong’s semiautonomous status is due to run out in 2047, 50 years after the UK transferred its powers over the city-state to Beijing. Because Hong Kong enjoyed a great degree of democratic rights…

The resurgence of the coronavirus in the U.S., driven principally by increases in southern and western states — together with thespike in ethnic tensions following the killing of George Floyd by…

Storm clouds continue to gather over Beijing’s relationship with Washington. While popular discontent in the U.S. over Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus has been rising for months, China’s…

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some…

At a seaside summit in southernIndiainOctober 2019, Chinese PresidentXi Jinpingand Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modipledged to take relations between their two countries to “greater heights” in the…

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the world looked anxiously toWashingtonto see if it would provide the kind of leadership that was once expected ofthe United Statesduring major…