As China became the globe’s dominant trade superpower, largely on the strength of its manufacturing prowess, leaders in the ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at heavy European sanctions against Russia, renewed sectarian violence in ...

Australia begins war-fighting drills, Trump threatens further tariffs, and a Syrian cease-fire is reached.

Trump announced a sweeping 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian exports to the United States beginning Aug. 1. In a letter to ...

Impunity for abetting war crimes weakens U.S. democracy.

After three years of intense fighting that has now touched every corner of Africa’s third-largest country, Sudan’s civil war ...

This is one of Trump’s favorite rhetorical tics —the conjuring up of a mythical community (“people are saying”) that agrees ...

In Washington, assessments of China—specifically, its economy and the legitimacy of the ruling Chinese Communist Party ...

If there is one thing presidents of both parties can agree on, it’s that the Congressional Budget Office causes them ...

That tension has played out on a number of issues, and it surfaced again over how to navigate Cuba policy—whether to take a ...

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Trump’s dismantling of the aid agency has jeopardized U.S. commitments to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.