China-U.S. relations face both opportunities and challenges. At least within this year, and particularly given the three ...

The policy is turning the world from a rules-based order to a strength-based one. January’s intervention in Venezuela may ...

Attempting to use “rebalancing” as an excuse for applying pressure on another country or for excluding a particular country ...

For China, a prerequisite is characterizing the overall kind of relationship the two sides have before specific issues can be discussed. The United States has often taken the opposite approach, ...

Europe is increasingly applying the same economic-security standards to U.S. firms that it once reserved for China, reflecting growing concerns over strategic dependence and American jurisdiction.

When a small state assumes the protection of a bigger ally under any circumstance, conflicts erupt. Will the U.S. and China learn from history? Throughout history, small allies and clients have ...

In the recently published China’s Military Strategy white paper, China’s overseas interests are stressed like never before. Securing China’s overseas interests is taken as one of the “strategic tasks” ...

The results of the election in Japan’s House of Councillors highlight a key trend: An era of political fragmentation in Japanese party politics has arrived, and populist political forces are growing.

A series of articles—based on empirical research by Brookings scholar Cheng Li—anticipating and analyzing leadership changes at China’s 20th Party Congress Cheng Li is a senior fellow and director of ...