China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

As the United States races to reduce its reliance on China for minerals vital for national, economic, and energy security, tariffs with Canada may drastically undermine these efforts. Canada is the ...

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a discussion of DPRK and Russia relations. The conversation will be moderated by Mr. Sydney Seiler and features Dr. Seth Jones, president of the Defense ...

Over the past fortnight, the administration has prohibited all new programming and issued a broad “stop-work” order on existing U.S. foreign assistance programs. In one fell swoop it removed more than ...

There is no mistaking the fact that the United States is in intense economic competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The shape this competition takes depends critically on the policies ...

Uranium is a crucial mineral for energy and national security—it fuels the nuclear energy that underpins today’s economy and is key to propelling future growth to meet the surge in energy demand from ...

Talk has finally turned into action and the first shots of the 2025 trade war have been fired. President Trump has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to place 25 percent ...

As digital commerce accounts for a growing share of economic activity, ensuring a competitive and level playing field in the retail sector, including e-commerce, has become more critical than ever. In ...

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

There is no shortage of well-reasoned, -researched, and -written pieces spelling out how misguided the Trump administration’s threatened but ultimately delayed application of tariffs on Canada and ...

The biggest surprises are not in what happens, but in what we thought couldn’t happen. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb If we ever needed a reminder that surprises are a constant, the dual disruptions between ...

With the return of Donald Trump and a war raging in Europe, Europeans are on edge. But Europe is presently at a loss for what to do. Speeches and meetings abound along with ad nauseam calls for ...