2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (181+ words) A new survey of Southeast Asian opinion leaders shows they prefer China to the United States as a partner, while the region's biggest geopolitical concern is U. S. global leadership. Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at…...

18+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1868+ words) This episode unpacks the opportunities and risks Moscow is facing amid the U. S. and Israeli war with Iran. GRAHAM: The view in Moscow as a consequence of the Iranian conflict is that this administration does not believe that Russia is a…...

15+ hour, 58+ min ago  (642+ words) After nearly six weeks of fighting, the United States and Iran agreed to a temporary truce, brokered by Pakistan. What are the conditions of the ceasefire, and what's the likelihood it will lead to a permanent deal? Although the full…...

17+ hour, 3+ min ago  (262+ words) In December, China increased military activity in the South China Sea and around Taiwan while simultaneously advancing diplomatic mediation, security cooperation, and economic initiatives across the Indo-Pacific. As China-Japan tensions continued rising, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae stated that Chinese…...

17+ hour, 48+ min ago  (496+ words) Reaching a permanent peace deal will require either Washington or Tehran to make major concessions. James M. Lindsay is the'Mary and David Boies distinguished senior fellow in U. S. foreign policy'at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last night, eighty-eight minutes before a self-imposed…...

22+ hour, 7+ min ago  (262+ words) South Africa cannot hope to confront its xenophobia problem until it owns it. Why would a harmless practice whose value is symbolic at best trigger such a violent reaction? (After all, king or no king, Igbos in South Africa'which is…...

23+ hour, 10+ min ago  (256+ words) This is an agreement to begin to talk'A ceasefire is better than no ceasefire. It's good for the bombing to stop. It's good for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened, assuming that the Iranians actually follow through on that,…...

23+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1419+ words) From her elementary school classroom to the editorial board of the New York Times, Carla Anne Robbins felt most excited when learning about the world. She sat down with CFR to discuss how that trait shaped her journalism career. Here's…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (302+ words) We leave Tehran in a much, much weakened position. They're no longer going to be able to wreak the kind of havoc they did before. But this is the thing about asymmetric warfare. The United States, in asymmetric warfare, has…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (15+ words) Europe Has Leverage in the Iran War. It Should Use It. Council on Foreign Relations...