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Dale de la Rey / AFP/ Getty Americans Are Losing Sight of What Fascism Means
Many Americans who brand Trump and his allies as fascists are paying too little attention to abuses in Hong Kong and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.
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Getty / The Atlantic We May Never Know the Full Story of COVID-19
Grit plus luck was sufficient to break open the SARS story. I doubt the same will be true for COVID-19.
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Rohan Hande The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed
When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté.
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Anusak Laowilas / NurPhoto / Getty How Milk Tea Became an Anti-China Symbol
The Milk Tea Alliance is emblematic of the frustration many young people feel toward Beijing’s grating assertiveness in the region.
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Jose Lopes Amaral / NurPhoto / Getty Keep an Eye on Taiwan
The battle over the island may be a Cold War relic, but it will shape the future.
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Lan Truong How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration
While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty What Happens When China Leads the World
The policies and practices of the country’s dynasties offer insights into how modern Chinese leaders may wield their strength.
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William Vandivert / The LIFE Picture Collection / … Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide
China’s repression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang has forced those in the diaspora to protect their identity from afar.
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Getty / The Atlantic What a Second Trump Term Would Mean for the World
Think of his reelection as a pincer movement, an attack on the international order from two sides.
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Chris McGrath / Getty Hong Kongers, Don’t Idolize the U.K.
I was born in London, and I know that it isn’t the welcoming place many seem to think it is.
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The Atlantic The Blob Meets the Heartland
Foreign policy should work better for America’s middle class.
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Tasos Katopodis / Stringer / Getty I Was Sanctioned by China
Beijing’s campaign of repression is already shaping what we can say, where we can travel, what products we buy, and even the news we read.
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PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Most Brazen Arrest Yet
The authorities insist freedoms will be upheld. Their actions show otherwise.
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Getty / The Atlantic How to Stop China From Imposing Its Values
America’s alliances were built to address a Soviet military threat. The economic bullying that Beijing uses requires a different kind of collective self-defense.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”
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Kevin Frayer / Getty China Has Squandered Its First Great Opportunity
The world has experienced a six-month geopolitical vacuum, and China has filled it poorly.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Democrats Are Allowing Trump to Frame the Debate on China
If they keep speaking the GOP’s language, it will haunt them for years to come.
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Hannah McKay / Getty Pompeo’s Surreal Speech on China
An ideological struggle is under way between Beijing and free societies, and the Trump administration is on the wrong side.
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Didier Ruef / LUZphoto / Redux China’s Xinjiang Policy: Less About Births, More About Control
Like the one-child policy, Beijing’s repressive actions against minority Uighur Muslims are about preserving power.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic A Nationalist’s Guide to Stepping Back From the Brink
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonstrates how to de-escalate a conflict while also saving face.
