Beijing Wants Trade but Not Responsibility; Why Despots Hate Cities and the Mayors Who Run Them; Trump’s Most Consequential Foreign Policy Mistake
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Looking out at the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 2026  

The Gulf’s China Problem

Beijing Wants Trade but Not Responsibility

By Mohammed Alsudairi, Andrea Ghiselli, and Aaron Glasserman

 

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a rally in New York City, June 2026

The Autocrat’s Worst Enemy

Why Despots Hate Cities and the Mayors Who Run Them

By Nina Hachigian

 
Holding an Iranian flag in Tehran, June 2026

The Long Shadow of the Iran War

Trump’s Most Consequential Foreign Policy Mistake

By Ian Bremmer and Firas Maksad

 
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, May 2026

China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting

The Cost of Trump’s Equivocation

By Richard Haass and David Sacks

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