U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a U.S. leader that could roil U.S. relations with China and maybe prompt more Chinese war games around the island. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, he would speak with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, dispelling…
Another year, another failed attempt. U.S. President Donald Trump’s inability to secure this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was predictable. The odds that he will ever win the prize remain slim. Yet this latest knockback is only likely to redouble Trump’s desire to win in future years, putting renewed energy behind one of the most important…
But beneath the surface, the opposition’s view of the transatlantic campaign to squeeze Lukashenko has evolved. They’re still leaning on the Trump administration to promote prisoner releases. But Europe, Tsikhanouskaya’s team now believes, is best positioned to champion the cause of Belarusian freedom — with ever-tightening sanctions key to the pressure campaign. Donald Trump called…
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Every week, we cover the latest developments in the U.S.-China relationship, among other topics. But this week, we take a step back and discuss a broader trend: artificial intelligence and why it’s become such a fixation for China hawks over other areas of U.S.-China technology competition. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China…
A Trump administration envoy met Taliban leaders in Kabul on Saturday to discuss improving relations and possible “investment opportunities” in Afghanistan, the group said. Newsweek has reached out to the State Department and White House for comment via email on Saturday. Why It Matters The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021 after U.S….
The U.S. Supreme Court is likely due to make a final decision on President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs after a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that they were illegal. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Monday he was confident the Court would uphold the administration’s tariffs but added that the White House has…
President Donald Trump has decided not to visit India for the Quad meeting later this year as relations between him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi continue to cool, according to a report from The New York Times. Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Indian Ministry of External Affairs for comment by…
The highly anticipated and hastily arranged Alaska summit was never likely to mirror the map-redrawing summit of Yalta, where Joseph Stalin cajoled — some would say coerced — a physically ill and mentally exhausted Franklin Roosevelt and a grumbling Winston Churchill to carve up Europe between Western and Soviet spheres. Nor was it going to…
Moscow claims it’s transferring Ukrainians to safety from the conflict, yet refuses to return the children to their relatives, putting them into the adoption system as orphans instead and immersing them in Russian propaganda. Recently, the Trump administration made it even harder to track and retrieve Ukrainian children in Russia after it disbanded Yale University’s…
The fates of breakthrough technologies and the energy to power them are deeply interwoven, with progress at scale in one difficult to advance without the other. Nowhere is this interconnection more consequential—and more dynamic—than in the U.S.-China relationship, which is marked by intense political tensions and competition, but also by under-appreciated technical overlap. Given the…