The company's apparent retreat on censorship show that it is not immune to the pressures that have long shaped the tech industry.

Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what.

The administration is engaging in a giant game of chicken—and there's no reason to believe the other side will blink first.

Anxiety about China surpassing the United States is old news. The numbers are complicated—but actively undermining the postwar order isn't helping.

China's farmers see the trade war as an act of American aggression.

Mexico is taxing imports of U.S. pork bellies. Don't panic.

The economic impact will probably be minimal, says Peter Chase. But boy do they throw a wrench into existing trade treaties.

Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

While autocrats take advantage of the president's foreign-policy chaos, America's oldest allies are paralyzed by division and dependency.

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.

Trump is making clear that he only respects countries with the power to devastate the U.S.

Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Iranian nuclear deal continues a rich tradition of U.S. fecklessness.

China's social credit system, which becomes mandatory in 2020, aims to funnel all behavior into a credit score.

Ian Bremmer sees Trump's victory, the rise of the far-right in Europe, and more as a backlash to globalism—and he thinks it's going to get worse.

In one of the most daring diplomatic moves in decades, the president seeks his own Nixon-to-China moment. This one might not go so well.

To curb China, the U.S. could increase development aid to other Asian countries. Sometimes, doing good is good strategy.

No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.

Trump’s new secretary of state does not improve the situation.