For businesses and consumers alike, the joint statement from Washington and Beijing offered signs of a détente in the U.S.-China trade war. Following the weekend’s Geneva talks, both sides have ...

Military conflict in the Indo-Pacific would demand overwhelming U.S. naval power. Yet the shipbuilding sector faces capacity shortages, industrial base constraints, cost overruns, and delayed delivery ...

Filipinos went to the polls on May 12 for consequential midterm elections. Voters chose representatives at almost all levels, from neighborhood-level leadership posts to seats in the House of ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on May 15, 2025. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: You just wrote a paper about Captagon smuggling through Lebanon. How much Captagon is ...

This week, committees in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their initial legislation responding to instructions in the fiscal year 2025 budget resolution. As budget reconciliation has evolved ...

On April 23, 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum submitted an initiative for a new telecommunications law to the Senate. This initiative seemed to catch many off guard, as did the speed with ...

Chairman Crapo, Ranking Member Wyden, and distinguished Members of the Committee, I am honored to share my views with you on this important topic. CSIS does not take policy positions, so the views ...

Liberation Day has come and gone. Many agree with President Trump that we should make more manufacturing goods in the United States, but simply imposing tariffs on foreign goods could have unintended ...

In the wake of high-profile trade talks in Geneva, the state of U.S.-China communication channels is in focus again. Over the course of Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president, most of the more ...

Russia’s drone campaign utilizes inexpensive Shahed drones to saturate Ukrainian air defenses and erode civilian morale through persistent nightly attacks. Originally Iranian made, these drones are ...

On May 12, 2025, the Trump administration announced a mutual reduction in trade measures between the United States and China. This includes not only a reduction in tariffs—bringing U.S. rates down ...

President Trump announced the intention to lift U.S. sanctions on the Syrian government during a speech in Riyadh, his first stop on a four-day tour of the Gulf. Syria is among the most sanctioned ...