Members of AEI’s National Council are business and community leaders from across the country and abroad who are committed to the values and success of the Institute. They are ambassadors for AEI and ...

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 ...

In War in Ukraine, Hal Brands brings together an all-star cast of analysts to assess the conflict’s origins, course, and implications and to offer their appraisals of one of the most geopolitically ...

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 ...

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. General MacArthur had a history of disregarding ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Although national test scores provide clear evidence on student achievement across time, they do not illuminate what is driving gains or losses. Nonetheless, careful examination of test scores can ...

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 ...

This explainer is meant to help build a common understanding of the structure and function of the myriad entities within the Iranian armed forces and the roles that they play in regime security.

October marks the 20th anniversary of “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,” the extraordinarily influential and controversial book by AEI scholar Charles Murray and ...

How pervasive are the problems at the World Food Program, the largest hunger relief agency in the world and the United Nations agency responsible for food aid? It’s a $2.9 billion question—the amount ...

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 ...