In this first article of a new series on claimants in the South China Sea dispute, we examine the historical reasoning, diplomacy, and island-building underpinning China’s claim.

Unity among the BRICS countries will continue to be thwarted by longstanding geopolitical disputes.

With naked US-China acrimony looking like the new normal, will Taiwan finally get its game-changing arms package?

History teaches us that sometimes it’s the human element that deescalates seemingly intractable international disputes.

The US-China bilateral relationship is too big to fail.

A newly empowered Xi Jinping is forcing US President Donald Trump to pick from the best of bad options.

US economic and political influence is waning in the Horn of Africa, and that’s bad news for civil society there.

We sit down with Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss the future of employment and the US economy.

The Kim-Moon summit was a positive first step, but any inter-Korean political reconciliation will be a long and fragile process.

President Trump reaches for China’s own playbook on trade, with disastrous results for ZTE.