The U.S. is officially back in the Paris Climate Agreement. But Biden must do much, much more than restore the status quo under Obama.
Returning to the Paris Agreement Is Just the Beginning
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China
Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China
Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict — but conflict is not an option.
What Explains COVID’s East-West Divide?
Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?
A Principled China Policy
How to use international law to shape a new approach to China.
The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force
Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space.
Echoes of Nomonhan
A little-known 1939 battle in the Mongolian grasslands helped determine World War II and shape the current geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
Biden Won’t Reset U.S. Foreign Policy On His Own
The foreign policy team Biden appoints matters less than the world they inherit, policies they pursue, and the pressure they get from progressives.
What Will a Biden Presidency Bring to the Asia Pacific?
Biden may tone down Trump’s trade war and bring back some limited human rights advocacy, but there may be more continuity than either administration admits.
America Rejoins the World?
It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.
How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt
The IMF and the Bank would like the global South to believe that they are indispensable. They are not.