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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires in December 2018. Xi is blending Maoist resolve with pragmatic diplomacy in his foreign policy.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 8, 2025

Xi steals a page from Mao’s foreign-policy playbook

Xi foreign policy blends Maoist ideology, pragmatic statecraft and strategic patience as he advances anti-corruption efforts and selectively cooperates with the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at Russian leader Vladimir Putin before posing for a family photo during the Group of 20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 9, 2025

Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska on Aug. 15 to discuss Ukraine peace deal

U.S. and Russian officials are working toward an agreement on territories for the two leaders' meeting, but Ukraine has rejected any agreement that cedes territory.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Aug. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 9, 2025

Trump rattles Latin America by eyeing military force against drug cartels

The approach discards the previous administration's preference for carrots over sticks to coax countries into alignment with U.S. interests.

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person