In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

DAVID M. LAMPTON is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China ...

China needs to protect its strategic cooperation agreement with Iran, so the superpower is selling military hardware and ...

There is a subtext in the American action in Venezuela which is all-too-visible – the United States’s rivalry with China. The American rationale for the invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its ...

The United States faces the potential prospect of war with a great power in the coming years, with the most likely prospect being the People’s Republic of China. China is increasingly confident in its ...

China posted a jaw-dropping $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025—most of which came from the Global South, rather than the United States. Amid various other major events in global news—large-scale ...

The United States and its allies prevailed in World War II in large measure because of the strength of American industry and manufacturing. The nation’s economic power, which includes its capacity to ...

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, the father of America’s nuclear bomb, described his country’s atomic rivalry with the Soviet Union as “two scorpions in a bottle”. The risks of this stand-off have been contained ...

The churn of great-power politics shapes the world and touches, for good or ill, the lives of people everywhere. Wars among great powers have killed millions of people; victorious great powers have ...

The first warning sign might be quiet moves by Beijing to move financial assets away from Western countries that might freeze them in a war. A second might be patriotic campaigns in China calling on ...

As the dust cleared around the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a surprise military strike earlier this month, US officials left little question that they had another target too: China.