Eight tests for the Trump-Xi 2026 détente

The achievements of September's US-China summit are underwhelming: a short trade truce extension, a reciprocal tariff reduction, a coal purchase, talks on AI, and two pandas. The rest is what matters

Shirley Ze Yu

China Is Losing India

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…

Tanvi Madan

Putin Is Not Smiling

Schadenfreude is a staple of propaganda, and so one might expect that Russia’s state media is enjoying the spectacle of the most serious American unrest since the 1960s. Surely, one might assume,…

Anna Arutunyan