Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

In its conflict with the USSR, China learned that a nation with a fledgling nuclear arsenal could not hope to deter a ...

Even today, in the throes of a norm-busting trade war with China, there is talk of some kind of leader-to-leader grand ...

Seventy-five years ago this week, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting a war that cost ...

Mediation is the message. Whenever a conflict arises, politicians seeking the tag of statesmen rush in and claim credit. When Donald Trump boomed into the headl ...

Late last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump Administration would begin “aggressively revoking” ...

Maga’s ‘second American revolution’ has inspired European politicians on both left and right to rebrand themselves ...

It’s naive to think a successor government would be more friendly to the U.S.,’ one analyst says. ‘Iranian nationalism won’t ...

A survey of more than 500 political scientists found that they believe the United States is headed towards authoritarian rule ...

It was a Great Escape in 1959 from Lhasa's Norbulingka Palace, the summer seat of the Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

News about Mao Zedong, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.