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April 14, 2023

China
China’s Media and Information Warfare

One of Beijing’s goals globally is to promote its model of technology-enabled authoritarianism. Democracies ought to share best practices on how to respond.

A man in a blue suit sits in front of a microphone, speaking and gesturing with his hands.

February 9, 2024

Ukraine
Will Ukraine Survive?

What Ukraine and its Western backers have accomplished in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 invasion is extraordinary. But with congressional Republicans blocking further US military aid, even as Ru…

The Ukrainian flag flutters amid buildings destroyed in Russia’s bombardment of the Ukrainian town of Borodianka.

January 29, 2024

Philippines
Marcos Jr. Moves the Philippines Dramatically Closer to the United States

Unlike other Southeast Asian leaders, President Marcos Jr. has chosen to explicitly align the Philippines with the United States and confront China more directly.

Philippine President Marcos wears a white button-down shirt while he walks past white colonnades with U.S. President Biden, who wears a blue suit.

December 13, 2023

Trade
Visualizing 2024: Trends to Watch

What trends will shape world events in the year ahead? Five CFR experts weigh in.

October 17, 2022

China
Joshua Kurlantzick: My Previous Book on State Capitalism in China—Right Idea, Wildly Underestimated

Chinese President Xi Jinping has gone much further than analysts had predicted he would in state control of the private sector in China and departure from a consensus based authoritarian system to on…

Xi Jinping

October 5, 2023

United States
Why New York Is Experiencing a Migrant Crisis

The arrival of more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers in New York City and other major U.S. cities over the past year has sparked renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy.

Migrants sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

October 30, 2023

Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Has Become a Hotbed of Transnational Repression

Whatever taboo existed against extraterritorial renditions and executions in other places around the world never really existed in mainland Southeast Asia.

Protestors stand in front of a red brick wall of the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok while holding paper posters of the face of the abducted Thai dissident, Wanchalearm Satsaksit.

November 2, 2020

U.S. Foreign Policy
Why the Middle East’s Strongmen Are Rooting for Trump

On substance and style, authoritarians see an ally in the White House—and hope to keep him there.