In Washington today, a familiar anxiety hangs in the air. American policymakers fear that China will leapfrog the United States in the technologies that matter most, including robotics and artificial ...

Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the ...

China traded tit-for-tat tariffs with the United States, but it otherwise remained content to sit back and accrue benefits from Trump’s alienation of U.S. allies and withdrawal from international ...

But in the years to come, Trump’s abandonment of democracy promotion will make it harder for civil society and opposition parties to dislodge the autocratic forces that once again have begun to take ...

Thanks in large part to such initiatives, U.S. efforts to combat proliferation over the last 60 years have succeeded more often than they have failed. Only nine states possess nuclear weapons, and ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

China has never given up its claim to the island; it is in the middle of one of the largest military buildups in history; it conducts regular incursions into Taiwan’s airspace and maritime zones; and ...

On August 8, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House for what Trump touted as a “historic peace summit.” As with the president’s unsuccessful ...

Israel has responded defiantly. Following Sunday’s recognitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a Hebrew-language video statement: “It will not happen. A Palestinian state will ...

For years, creating AGI has been the holy grail of many leading AI researchers. Altman and other top technologists, including Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and the computer science professors ...

CLARKE is Director of Research at The Soufan Group and a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center. Nine months after the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a rebel offensive, Syria ...

In the wrong hands, semiconductors and certain other U.S. technologies can present national security risks. Politicians might have debated the details, but there was broad bipartisan agreement that ...