When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...

CHARLES KUPCHAN is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of the forthcoming book Br ...

Russia’s “foreign agent” law, established in 2012 to identify individuals and organizations that received international funding, has become a tool to criminally prosecute and ban from public life ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has demonstrated—if any more proof were needed—that the days when allies could rely on the United States to uphold world order are over. For the 80 ...

Donald Trump’s rise was supposed to have upended the liberal international order. In his first term, Trump openly disparaged longtime European allies, pulled out of international treaties such as the ...

A basic premise unites most foreign policy thinking: power begets security. Because no global police force can respond in times of trouble, states must accumulate power to ensure their safety. They ...

Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew formal alliances. This approach has paid off, securing U.S ...

Tensions are rising in Japan-China relations over Taiwan. It started with Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s statement to the ...

President Trump is consuming himself with foreign policy matters as the first year of his second term comes to a close, even ...

Courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs KUNIMITSU by H.E. Mrs. APALOO, Ambassador Extraordinary and ...

Amid an ongoing spat between Asia's top two economies, Tokyo is seeking a diplomatic offramp while Beijing plays hardball.

China imposed sanctions on the former top uniformed member of Japan’s military, accusing the ex-general of colluding with Taiwanese “separatist” forces.