China

  In his second term, United States President Donald Trump has surrounded himself with self-proclaimed “China hawks,” advisers, and officials eager to outmaneuver Beijing in the ongoing U.S.-China rivalry. However, a series of mixed signals, vague actions and unfilled key roles, such as critical ambassadorships and senior agency positions, have left observers both at home […]

  While the world appears increasingly fractured between the complex American and Chinese spheres of influence, countries that have not taken sides seem to be stuck with an impossible choice. Yet the almost-forgotten Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership (CPTPP), a multilateral free trade agreement significantly lowering tariffs and barriers among some G7 and Global Majority […]

  The American-British trade relationship, once framed primarily by economic liberalism, is emerging into a nexus of investment, trade and technology security amid strategic alignments in the face of rising global tensions. For the United Kingdom, whose economy is still adjusting to the post-Brexit and post-pandemic environment, the goals of the United States-UK Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD) […]

    As the North Atlantic political sphere spent the last few years focused on elections in Europe and the United States, as well as Russia’s war on Ukraine, China has made a remarkable resurgence. After displaying significant vulnerabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic and its immediate aftermath, the country rebounded. While it currently faces major economic […]

Some Western capitals appear to nourish hopes that it might be possible to drive a wedge between Russia and China – an inversion of what President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger achieved in the 1970s when aligning with China against the Soviet Union. Russia is both a European and an Asian country, stretching across 11 […]