February 2025

Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Trump’s Real Estate Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s lack of diplomatic experience is his greatest strength—and potentially his fatal weakness. Cook-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist4Steven A. Cook By Steven A. Cook, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and…

Analysis Trump Has the Whole Global Trade System in His Sights The U.S. president’s ambitions for “reciprocity” aren’t limited to China. February 6, 2025, 2:15 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Bob Davis, a reporter who covered U.S.-China economic relations for decades for the Wall Street Journal. An illustration shows Donald Trump waving with…

Analysis The Big Questions Facing Trump’s New Sovereign Wealth Fund He isn’t the first U.S. president to try to establish one, but the initiative faces several obstacles. By Rishi Iyengar, a reporter at Foreign Policy. U.S. President Donald Trump, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (L) and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick (R), speaks to the…

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Deep Dive Did Biden Get China Right? The administration aimed to outcompete China. Four years later, here’s how it measured up. February 6, 2025, 11:28 AM Comment icon View Comments () By Lili Pike, a reporter at Foreign Policy. An illustration shows a scribbled and tangled line connecting the flags of the United States and…

Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Trump Is Behaving a Lot Like Beijing The U.S. president’s designs on Gaza and other territories mirror China’s failed wolf warrior diplomacy. Howard FrenchHoward W. French By Howard W. French, a columnist at Foreign Policy. Trump looks off to the right under rays of sunlight….

Analysis Trump Returns to ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran The U.S. president signed a memo directing agencies to enforce existing sanctions on the country, but his statements suggest he’s open to talks. By Keith Johnson, a reporter at Foreign Policy covering geoeconomics and energy, and John Haltiwanger, a reporter at Foreign Policy. A crowd of people…