The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has hit $2.7 trillion. Verifiable investment recovered from COVID and zero-COVID but has not gone back anywhere close to ...

China surprised everyone Tuesday night by acknowledging GDP growth well below 5 percent. The official rate is 4.3 percent for the second quarter and 4.7 percent for the first half, to just over $10.1 ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

The Eurasian Century is a historical and strategic tour de force, broad-ranging and full of insights. Above all, it is a necessary book, an analysis that should be required reading for everyone who ...

Housing markets are inherently local and national data can obfuscate important local trends. While some metros continue to benefit from tailwinds in the form of lower home prices, growing economies or ...

The China & Taiwan Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan ...

Through years of neglect, the challenge of corruption in Mexico has grown to unsustainable levels, with significant repercussions domestically and abroad. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ...

In “A Search for Common Ground,” Frederick M. Hess and Pedro A. Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their ...

That Iran hasn’t invaded anyone or, indeed, started a war in more than two centuries has become a talking point for those advocating trust and outreach to Iran. Here’s University of Michigan professor ...

“The United States is a republic, not a democracy.” This is one of those oft-repeated expressions that one hears in civil discourse whose meaning nevertheless remains somewhat fuzzy. After all, the ...

I collect books; it’s a big part of my life as an academic. Whenever I travel—whether around New York, across the country, or overseas—I almost always come home with another volume or two. My home and ...

Except for tiny Luxembourg, the United States spends more money on education than every other OECD country and exceeds the OECD average by over 50 percent. This is not just true of absolute levels of ...