Politics

Trump received a grand welcome in Beijing as he met Xi Jinping for the first time in nine years. Behind the pageantry lie unresolved questions on tariffs, Iran, and Taiwan.

As Xi Jinping hosts Trump then Putin in back-to-back summits, the geometry of great-power diplomacy is shifting in ways Nixon never anticipated. Here's what the numbers reveal.

Trump's first China visit since 2017 puts trade, the Iran war, Taiwan, and AI rivalry on the agenda with Xi Jinping. What each side wants—and what neither can afford to concede.

The U.S.-China summit may be the most consequential meeting between the two powers since Nixon met Mao. But the two leaders aren't just negotiating terms—they're operating on entirely different timelines.

Beijing's expanded export controls now include an extraterritorial clause—products made anywhere in the world using Chinese rare earths could be subject to Chinese approval. The rules of global supply chains just changed.

Trump and Xi meet in Beijing with trade, Taiwan, and AI on the table. What each side wants — and what they're willing to give up — could define superpower relations for years.

Armed Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family to exhume their father's body minutes after burial in the West Bank village of Asasa. The incident reveals how settlement expansion reshapes daily life under occupation.

Trump arrives in Beijing as the Iran war strains global energy markets. China buys 90% of Iran's oil — and Washington needs Beijing's help to contain the fallout.

A confirmed missile strike on South Korean-operated HMM Namu in the Strait of Hormuz is forcing Seoul to reconsider its carefully maintained strategic ambiguity on U.S.-led maritime security operations.

Chinese researchers have developed a dual-atom catalyst that converts nitrate-polluted wastewater into ammonia at nearly triple the efficiency of conventional methods, with major implications for food security and green chemistry.

Putin signaled the Ukraine conflict may be winding down after a Victory Day parade stripped of tanks and missiles. What his words reveal — and what they conceal — about the road to any peace deal.

From Ukraine to Libya to Afghanistan, U.S. foreign policy keeps repeating the same two failures. Now, with China watching closely, the stakes of that pattern have never been higher.