Mitch McConnell: The Price of American Retreat - Foreign Affairs
5 days ago · Despite Biden’s tough campaign rhetoric about Russia, his policy of détente with the Kremlin resembled Obama’s reset. Immediately after taking office in 2021, Biden signed a five-year extension to the New START treaty, giving up leverage over Russia that he could have used to negotiate a better agreement and tying the United States’ hands as nuclear threats from …
Putin’s Point of No Return - Foreign Affairs
3 days ago · The Russian problem is also a global one. Putin’s willingness to invade a neighbor, assault democratic societies, and generally violate accepted norms—and his seeming ability to get away with it—paves the way for others to do the same.The Kremlin’s provision of military equipment and know-how to current and aspiring U.S. adversaries will amplify these threats, …
How to Stop a Trade War - Foreign Affairs
2 days ago · Under Trump, U.S. officials will need to design trade deals that get partners to reduce their own trade with China. They can start by pressing key trading partners to adopt common external tariffs, alongside the United States, on imports of agreed-on critical products from China, such as vehicles and critical minerals.
Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons | Foreign Affairs
2 days ago · The Assad regime, with assistance from Moscow, also launched a massive propaganda campaign against OPCW investigators and local evidence collectors. According to survivors of the chemical attacks, the security services coerced civilians, many of whom had lost children in the attacks, to repeat the lie that it was the rebels who had used poison gas against …
An Israeli Order in the Middle East | Foreign Affairs
4 days ago · What is happening in the Middle East today is best understood as a struggle over a new regional order. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, three competing visions for that order have emerged and then faltered: the Hamas vision, the Hezbollah-Iranian vision, and the American vision.
American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age - Foreign Affairs
3 days ago · The Foreign Affairs Interview. Foreign Affairs invites you to join its editor, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, as he talks to influential thinkers and policymakers about the forces shaping the world. Whether the topic is the war in Ukraine, the United States’ competition with China, or the future of globalization, Foreign Affairs' biweekly podcast offers the kind of authoritative …
China’s Slowdown Has Changed the Trade War - Foreign Affairs
4 days ago · China’s situation is likely even more dire than official GDP data suggest. Inconsistencies in reported economic statistics have always been an issue in China, as with other developing countries, but since 2022, it has become even …
How to Hold Syria Together | Foreign Affairs
5 days ago · The war then entered an extended stalemate. Turkey secured several remaining opposition-held pockets in Syria’s north, while the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, controlled Syria’s east, including the country’s most valuable agricultural and petrocarbon resources. Thanks in part to new U.S. sanctions and neighboring Lebanon’s economic …
The Strange Success of North Korea | Foreign Affairs
3 days ago · In 2017, the highly militarized regime of Kim Jong Un of North Korea found itself confronting a rare coalition of China, Russia, and the United States. In response to North Korea’s successful test of its first intercontinental ballistic missile and thermonuclear device, the usually gridlocked UN ...