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Why Have China and India Suddenly Come Together?
Detente at the border gives both countries one less thing to worry about.

Argument | Kanti Bajpai

Jihadi Violence Looms Over Ghana’s Election
Countering the spillover of Islamist militants from the Sahel will be a major challenge for the country’s next leader.

Africa Brief | Nosmot Gbadamosi

Trump 2.0 Could Give China a Headache in Southeast Asia
The region’s diverse governments may get along better with the new administration.

Analysis | Derek Grossman

Will Denmark Expose Chinese-Russian Sabotage in the Baltic?
The Danish Navy is circling a suspicious Chinese ship off its coast—but deterring ill-intentioned merchant vessels presents a geopolitical dilemma.

Analysis | Elisabeth Braw

Toxic Smog Threatens India and Pakistan
As air pollution chokes New Delhi and Lahore, officials in both countries are pointing fingers.

South Asia Brief | Michael Kugelman

Russia Outlines Conditions for Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal
The Kremlin refuses to part with Crimea and is adamant that Kyiv not join NATO.

World Brief | Alexandra Sharp

The Real Reason Israel Wants to Ban UNRWA
Israel’s motivations may extend far beyond the current war in Gaza.

Analysis | Anchal Vohra

It’s Time for Ukraine to Make the Best Peace It Can
U.S. policymakers can help shape a deal that preserves national security.

Argument | Matthew Duss, Robert Farley

New Missiles Won’t Change Ukraine’s Broken War Math
The incoming Trump administration needs to learn from Biden’s mistakes.

Argument | Jennifer Kavanagh

Trump Is His Own Secretary of State
The next U.S. president’s foreign-policy appointees ultimately won’t matter much.

Argument | David Milne

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Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right
The writer’s new argument for left-wing foreign policy has earned a mainstream hearing.
November 15, 2024, 2:00 PM

By Stephen M. Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.

For more than half a century, Noam Chomsky has been arguably the world’s most persistent, uncompromising, and intellectually respected critic of contemporary U.S. foreign policy. In a steady stream of books, articles, interviews, and speeches, he has repeatedly sought to expose Washington’s costly and inhumane approach to the rest of the world, an approach he believes has harmed millions and is contrary to the United States’ professed values. As co-author Nathan J. Robinson writes in the preface, The Myth of American Idealism was written to “draw insights from across [Chomsky’s] body of work into a single volume that could introduce people to his central critiques of U.S. foreign policy.” It accomplishes that task admirably.

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* Trump’s Second-Term Foreign-Policy Agenda
He is poised to bring back hallmarks of his first term, from a China trade war to hostility toward multilateralism.
Analysis | FP Staff

* Why She Lost
Despite a platform focused on winning back the working class, Kamala Harris and her party had lost too many of them already.
Argument | Michael Hirsh

* Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers
Meet the 11 men whose worldviews are shaping the 2024 Republican ticket.
Feature | FP Staff

* The 10 Foreign-Policy Implications of the 2024 U.S. Election
What to think about Trump 2.0.
Argument | Stephen M. Walt

A selection of paywall-free articles

* America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Essay | Adam Posen

* A New Multilateralism
Essay | Gordon Brown

* Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
Analysis | C. Raja Mohan

* A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
Analysis | Anastasia Edel

* The China-Russia Axis Takes Shape
Analysis | Bonny Lin

* No, the World Is Not Multipolar
Essay | Jo Inge Bekkevold

* 6 Swing States Will Decide the Future of Geopolitics
Analysis | Cliff Kupchan

What Will a Post-Xi China Look Like?
Excerpt | Kevin Rudd

Diplomacy That Goes Bump in the Night
Review | Megan DuBois

How the Dollar Became a Double-Edged Sword
Review | Carey K. Mott

Americas

* Everything You Wanted to Know About Trump’s Tariffs But Were Afraid to Ask

* Peru Unveils Chinese-Backed Megaport

* What Biden Must Do to Help Gaza Now

* The Belt and Road Isn’t Dead. It’s Evolving.

Europe

* Russia’s Plans to Replace the Dollar Are Going Nowhere

- Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits

* How Russia Could Exploit Georgia’s Political Turmoil

* How to Prepare a Country for ‘Zero Day’ of Invasion

Why Electoral Violence Starts—and How It Can End
As Americans prepare to vote in a tense presidential contest, these countries show a way out of political polarization.

November 1, 2024, 6:00 AM
By Robert A. Pape, Dushni Weerakoon, Oliver Stuenkel, Adem Kassie Abebe, and Daniel Finn


Though experts have pointed out the pervasiveness of violence in U.S. political history, this particular election—held in the shadow of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and marked by multiple assassination attempts on Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump—doesn’t feel normal. Americans can no longer take a peaceful transition of power for granted.

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* Russia Can’t Keep Spending Like This for Long
Moscow is depleting its rainy-day savings to plug its war-induced fiscal deficit while preserving social stability.
Analysis | Agathe Demarais

* The Next AI Debate Is About Geopolitics
Data might be the “new oil,” but nations—not nature—will decide where to build data centers.
Argument | Jared Cohen


* The Enduring Mystery of Trump’s Relationship With Russia
After years of government investigations, we still don’t know if the former president is actually in Putin’s pocket.
Deep Dive | Michael Hirsh

* The Case for the Greater West
Washington should abandon liberal universalism and work with the empire it already has.
Argument | Peter Slezkine

IR Experts See Glaring Differences Between Harris and Trump
Analysis | Irene Entringer García Blanes, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, Michael J. Tierney

In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles

* America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
Essay | Adam Posen

* A New Multilateralism
Essay | Gordon Brown

* Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
Analysis | C. Raja Mohan

* A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
Analysis | Anastasia Edel

* The China-Russia Axis Takes Shape
Analysis | Bonny Lin

* No, the World Is Not Multipolar
Essay | Jo Inge Bekkevold

* 6 Swing States Will Decide the Future of Geopolitics
Analysis | Cliff Kupchan

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

Authors: Wong, Edward
Publisher: Viking; June 25, 2024
ISBN-13978-1984877406

A new book by veteran New York Times correspondent Edward Wong throttles this view. In At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China, Wong asserts that Xi’s “China dream” is the dream of a rejuvenated Chinese empire. Drawing on contemporary scholarship, years of reporting, and his own family history, Wong presents the People’s Republic of China as the successor to the Qing empire and frames many of the leading controversies about China today as those of imperial periphery. These controversies include the genocide in Xinjiang, the occupation of Tibet, the imposition of authoritarianism on Hong Kong, and Beijing’s threats to take Taiwan by force.

His is not a new assertion, but Wong wades into this debate with some unique perspectives. In Iraq, Wong’s first foreign assignment for the Times, he witnessed firsthand the “imperial bloodletting” of America’s war. When he moved to Beijing in 2008, he found a hopeful and ambitious society led by a government promising a peaceful rise and equality among nations. If “any power represented an alternative vision of the future,” Wong thought at the time, “surely it was China.”

But by the time he left China eight years later, Wong writes, “this had become obvious to me: the story of China under Communist Party rule is one of a nation straining with all its might to become an empire that surpasses that of America, and that envisions itself as the inheritor of the rule and the realm of the Qing dynasty.”

Wong’s disillusionment with the People’s Republic follows a similar trajectory as his father’s 50 years earlier, and this is where the heart of the book lies. In tracing out the parallel journeys that he and his father, Yook Kearn Wong, took—from the peripheries of diaspora and British-ruled Hong Kong, to the heart of empire in Beijing, to China’s far western frontier of Xinjiang, and finally to Washington, the seat of American empire—Wong has written a sweeping epic in its own right, one that tells the story of Chinese empire through the lives of the people swept up in tectonic shifts far beyond their control.

The story begins from the outside in, with Wong the father’s childhood in the 1930s and 1940s split between Hong Kong under British colonial rule and Taishan County in Guangdong, and with Wong the son’s childhood in the United States in the 1970s as a member of the Taishanese global diaspora. Yook Kearn was an elementary school student in Hong Kong when the Japanese took control of the city, forcing him and his brother to return to their ancestral village of Taishan, situated in the Pearl River Delta close to China’s eastern coast. It was a fateful move for Wong’s father, placing him on a path that would keep him in mainland China for the next two decades while many of his family members remained in Hong Kong or moved to the United States.

Moving to the United States was a path that many Taishanese had already taken. The county became a top source of emigration out of China in the 19th century as Taishanese men poured into California during the gold rush, and many helped build the transcontinental railroad. The reader gets to follow along with Wong the son as he makes his first visit to his ancestral home in Taishan in 2009 and finds the abandoned family villa his grandfather built in the 1930s. Nature is slowly reclaiming the old house, one of many such now-derelict compounds in the area built with money earned abroad. “Taishan was about movement, about a headlong rush toward the wider world, the one beyond the brick houses and bamboo groves and fish ponds,” Wong reflects. “Sometimes people left and came home again, but more often they left and never looked back.”

The Top International Relations Schools of 2024, Ranked
An insider’s guide to the world’s best programs—for both policy and academic careers.

July 30, 2024, 8:00 AM
By Irene Entringer García Blanes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney

The Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute has long partnered with Foreign Policy to create a reputational ranking of academic programs in international relations. Over the past two decades, our process has remained simple and consistent: We ask IR professionals what they think are the five best places to study for an undergraduate, terminal master’s, and doctoral degree.

Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers
Feature | FP Staff

The Kamala Harris Doctrine
Everything we know about the Democratic nominee’s foreign-policy views.

Analysis | FP Staff

Americas

* How Technology Ruined Democracy

* Could Lula and Trump Get Along?

* U.S. Republicans Are Embracing Mussolini’s Motherhood Agenda

* The ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Election

Europe

* The U.S. Should Not Recognize Georgia’s Illegitimate Elections

* Could Elections Reverse Georgia’s Break-Up With the West?

* A Western Victory Plan for Ukraine

* Georgia Braces for High-Stakes Election

Middle East & Africa

* Europe Helps Fuel Conflict in Sudan While Shutting Its Victims Out

* The G-20 Needs a Grand Bargain With the Global South

* What’s at Stake for Africa in the U.S. Elections?

* Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated

China

* Chinese Tech Regulators Back Off

* North Korea and Myanmar Cause Headaches in Beijing

* China’s Relentless Legal Warfare to Strangle Taiwan

* China Can’t Boost Consumer Confidence

Asia & the Pacific

* A Future Myanmar Must Include the Rohingya

* How Do We Know What’s Happening in China?

* Markets Are Underpricing the Possibility of a U.S.-China Economic War

* Japan’s Chaotic Politics May Shake East Asia’s Stability

The Global Stakes as America Votes
FP staff and contributors keep you updated on the U.S. presidential race—and what it means for the world

FP: With the U.S. presidential election less than two months away, and a 50/50 chance that Donald Trump will return to the White House, many observers around the world want to know what to expect from a second Trump administration when it comes to foreign policy. As the author of a recent book on Republican foreign policy and a leader at a Washington-based think tank, I field questions almost every day from diplomats, journalists, and business executives looking for insights into a Trump 2.0 administration, writes Matthew Kroenig

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FP: Oct. 7th, 2023 brought about five major changes that will shape dynamics in the Middle East for years to come.

FP: By not holding both sides accountable, Washington’s diplomatic efforts have surrendered all moral authority and credibility, Allan J. Wind argues.

FP: Now is an ideal opportunity to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, columnist @matthewkroenig argues.

FP: As the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war approaches, the prospects of peace seem less likely than ever. FP asked six experts to explain whether they think the conflict is closer to its beginning or its end.

FP: On what #Iran wanted out of its missile attack on Israel. Tuesday’s missile attack by Iran was a risky maneuver, but it was not a knee-jerk reaction. It reflects a more complex calculation in Tehran.
"Iran’s goal is not so much to deter Israel, but to compel the United States to do so." writes @vali_nasr

FP: Tunisia holds a presidential election on Oct. 6 that is expected to be the final nail in the coffin of the first democracy to emerge from the 2011 Arab Spring protests, @nosmotg reports.

FP: Netanyahu and his backers (including some Americans) want to transform the Middle East with military force. George W. Bush tried to do that too. Given the damage that Israel’s armed forces and intelligence services have inflicted on its various adversaries, it’s not surprising that Netanyahu is taking a victory lap. Just as George W. Bush did, columnist @stephenWalt writes.

FP: Pakistan is experiencing a fresh surge in tensions between Imran Khan's PTI & the civilian/military leadership, with Khan calling for more protests and PTI escalating its rhetoric--even as it faces ever-intensifying crackdowns. Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan has called for protests across Punjab province this weekend in response to constitutional amendments that would increase government control. writes @MichaelKugelman

FP: Netanyahu looks more securely in power than he has at any time in the past year. Yet the politics of Oct. 7 may very well frustrate his ambitions, David E. Rosenberg writes.

FP World Brief: Israeli soldiers are killed in ground clashes with Hezbollah, Ukraine announces new weapons production goals, and deadly storms devastate parts of the United States and Taiwan.

FP: As Israel plans its response to Iran, Biden is attempting a diplomatic Hail Mary. For the United States, the question is whether Biden can prevent a politically hazardous escalation with little over a month to go in a very tight U.S. presidential election, columnist @michaelphirsh writes.

FP: U.N. Resolution 1701 was a great idea—if only Lebanon had been able to curb Hezbollah.

FP: As we mark the first year of the Israel-Hamas war and the escalating crisis on another front between Israel and Hezbollah, nowhere is the United States’ leverage problem more stunningly and tragically apparent, @aarondmiller2 writes.

FP: One-sided U.S. policy leaves Palestinians and aid workers vulnerable while Israel acts with impunity.

FP: Jimmy Carter is the only U.S. president to reach the milestone of celebrating a 100th birthday, and his centenary is an appropriate moment to reflect upon his presidency and his handling of foreign policy, columnist @stephenwalt writes.

FP: Checking Russia’s and China’s influence requires promoting good governance abroad, Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT writes.

FP: Since the Israeli airstrike, a small village has largely emptied of people—except for those still digging up the dead. Homes have been abandoned, and roads are eerily quiet. Residents of southern Lebanon no longer feel safe as the front line inches closer, @stephglinski reports.