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American bimonthly magazine on international relations and foreign policy, published by the Council on Foreign Relations since 1922.
Foreign Affairs published an essay arguing that France and the United Kingdom should lead a renewed US-European nuclear bargain. It starts from the author's claim that European governments no longer count on Washington to defend them.
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China and Russia supplied Iran satellite imagery ahead of strikes on US bases, according to a Foreign Affairs essay citing U.S. officials. The essay argues this lets a hostile bloc shape a war at low cost while Washington strains its partnerships.
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Delhi protesters demand the chief election commissioner resign over a purge of more than 130 million names from draft voter lists, Foreign Affairs reports. It judges Modi in no danger of falling, yet calls the protests the most significant challenge to his authority since 2014.
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LandSpace recovered a rocket booster on land on August 19, the first time a Chinese firm has done so. Foreign Affairs puts Chinese company launches at 92 a year, up from 39 in 2020, against a US that still flies more than twice as many.
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Foreign Affairs says roughly 30% of Americans use AI less than four years after ChatGPT, five times the share for earlier technologies at comparable stages. The essay treats that speed as fuel for a market bubble, pointing to ten AI stocks that supplied around half of this year's S&P 500 returns.
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Foreign Affairs essay argues Iran's leaders, nervous in private despite claiming victory in the war begun February 28, will escalate against energy markets. Its view that no settlement would last makes the Hormuz energy shock a planning problem measured in years.
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Chile's President José Antonio Kast lost 14 approval points in March after refusing energy subsidies as the Hormuz closure raised prices. Voters across the region are punishing governments that fail on living costs, whatever their ideology, so policy is set to keep swinging.
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Foreign Affairs argues last weekend's United Russia landslide was organised in advance to display total commitment to the war, while the Levada Center's own numbers show approval and public morale falling underneath it.
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A Foreign Affairs essay counts about 30 percent of the Draghi recommendations implemented by mid-2026 and argues that even full adoption would leave the gap open, because the barriers are Europe's own labor, tax and regulatory layers.
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Both routes that carried Gulf barrels around the closed Strait of Hormuz have now been hit, one by a drone and the other by a Houthi takeover of the Red Sea chokepoint. Oil is at $110 a barrel.
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Musk, Amodei, Altman and the CIA's director all reach for nuclear precedent, and a Foreign Affairs essay sets out why the three governance designs built on it assume a traceable inventory and state ownership that frontier AI lacks.
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A Foreign Affairs essay credits Beijing with escalation dominance built on 80 to 90 percent of rare-earth production, and argues that cutting direct imports from China has made American supply chains harder to trace.
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Antonio Guterres leaves at the end of the year after spending his final two years on cost cuts, and the three named candidates to replace him would take over a system whose revenue grew 85 percent between 2010 and 2022.
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A Foreign Affairs essay counts three dozen generals formally purged since 2022 and argues the discipline strengthens the party. The problem it says the method cannot fix is succession, and Xi has named no one.
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Marco Rubio told Axios in August that Cuba's government could survive into 2028 or beyond. A Foreign Affairs account of Havana in June describes a state that is losing the capacity any transition would need.
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Orville Schell covered the May Beijing summit for Foreign Affairs and expects the September 23 meeting in Washington to run into the same limits. For anyone planning China exposure, the horizon is leader tenure.
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An essay in Foreign Affairs dates each step of the American pullback from Europe. The cuts described so far land on refueling tankers, maritime patrol aircraft and the command structure, and only some of that can be bought back.
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Chinese hackers hold access to American communications, energy and transport networks in order to prepare sabotage, a Foreign Affairs essay says. Its proposed remedy depends on the private operators that ran those systems through two decades of light regulation.
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Foreign Affairs counts nine official EU candidates alongside concluded deals with Indonesia, India, Mercosur and Australia, and argues the bloc's slowness is why its terms hold while Washington rewrote its tariff authority in February.
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The essay's case against the terminal-decline consensus rests on conditions it expects to reverse, which makes the planning question less about how strong Russia is than about how long fragmentation lasts.
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