This year’s report revised upwards the estimate of China’s defense budget, the second-largest in the world (behind the United States), to one-and-a-half to two times its public defense budget ($330 ...

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To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

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A view of the General Assembly Hall during the "Summit of the Future" at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., ...

An estimated four billion people across some eighty countries—roughly half of the world’s population—headed to the polls to ...

The Philippines risks losing strategically and economically by oscillating between the United States and China— without ...

A discussion with Commissioner Inman Grant, moderated by Senior Fellow Linda Robinson, on Australia’s landmark Online Safety ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. China has, according to the New York Times, the capacity to produce over 40 ...

Since 2019, there has been a massive surge in “National Security” notifications at the WTO. Many of these are covers for rank protectionism.

More than 155 million Americans voted in 2024: 156,302,318 to be exact. That’s the second largest total voter turnout in U.S.