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CFR President Michael Froman discusses the takeaways from this week’s two major events: the annual UN General Assembly debate and the U.S.-China summit.

The first in a series of posts on the Future of American Strategy Initiative’s national outreach.

This week, hosts Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson speak with Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and staff writer for the Atlantic, to unpack why Europe still isn’t doing enough to support Ukraine, and what a shifting Russian threat—driven by a new drone warfa…

Trump’s meeting with Xi in Washington has intensified pressure to pursue a U.S.-China deal on artificial intelligence (AI). Although a deal is extremely unlikely today, Washington can take steps now that make one more likely in the future.

In January, China condemned the United States’ capture and arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Brazil reacted to China’s 55 percent tariff on beef imports by preparing to scale back production. Argentina received its first shipment of Chinese electric and hybrid vehicl…

Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. For the fifth time, U.S. President Donald Trump ascended the marble dais to deliver his speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly. Over the decades, world leaders …

A landmark 1996 treaty to ban all nuclear weapons tests has yet to go into effect.

Recent escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war has halted the Black Sea grain trade and metastasized into a war on the global food system. Combined with drought in the Northern Hemisphere, a looming super El Niño, and persistent instability in the Middle East—the world is on the ver…

The second of four meetings in 2026 between the leaders of the United States and China is unlikely to produce any major breakthroughs.

Long-standing educational programs such as Fulbright, Boren, and the Critical Language Scholarship are all suspended. A leader-level deal could bring them back and protect the students who take part.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Dario Amodei, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” darioamodei.com Julian Gewirtz, “Is Trump Really Giving Xi a State Visit 40 Days Before the Midterms?” Paper Tiger “Taiwan Relations Act (H.R. 2479),” U.S. Congress

The honors for Xi exceed what Trump got in Beijing, but the asymmetry goes beyond the pageantry. A quick brief on ten issues that will define the state visit.

Each year, the General Assembly hosts a much-watched debate of world leaders. The 2026 meeting is expected to focus on several critical topics, including climate change, artificial intelligence governance, and major ongoing conflicts in Iran, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

CFR’s Steven Cook explains what Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s direct appeal to President Donald Trump reveals about the U.S.-Saudi relationship, and the new challenges Washington could confront as the Houthis appear to take control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait.

Heads of state and government are converging on New York City as the UN General Assembly (UNGA) kicks off annual high-level meetings.

Seven candidates are vying to succeed António Guterres as the United Nations’ tenth leader since 1946. Who are they, how are they selected, and what challenges will they face in the role?

The United States has historically been the largest donor to the United Nations. However, during his second term, President Trump has reduced U.S. funding, withdrawn from major agencies, and scaled back the country’s involvement in UN initiatives.

An unprecedented emigration wave has emptied Cuba of up to a quarter of its population since 2020. The demographic fallout will reverberate for decades to come, affecting any future economic recovery or political transition.

An urgent, incisive assessment of Germany’s return to military power and Europe’s security as Russian aggression rises and U.S. reliability falters.

Not everything diplomats say should be believed.

Introduction Western governments have long treated their dependence on China-controlled critical raw materials, the backbone of the global economy, as a latent risk. Between 2023 and 2026, Beijing imposed export controls on gallium, rare earths, and at least seven other materials…

The parting remarks of America’s first president were more about shaping who would succeed him in office than about advance a fundamental foreign policy principle to guide all future generations.

Peter Harrell’s testimony to the House Select Committee on China addresses why the United States should act before Chinese vehicles and robots become entrenched, how exporters evade restrictions, and what domestic investment must accompany import controls.

In August, the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI seized platforms used by Chinese hackers to target NASA, the Federal Reserve, and other government and private sector networks. This takedown followed actions in 2024 to disable a botnet that controlled thousands of infected Inter…

The United States’ ability to lead in artificial intelligence (AI) depends on Taiwan’s supply chain ecosystem. As Washington and Beijing compete for global AI dominance, a conflict in the Taiwan Strait would threaten the future of the American AI industry. Washington should use t…