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This Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey indicates the US and Japan have mutually positive views of each other’s leadership efforts.

According to foreign policy leader surveys concerns about a potential trade war between the US and China are widespread.

While Biden and Xi met in Bali, the UN's COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh is being re-energized by the discussion between the world leaders.

The United States will have to take the lead in rebuilding trust and confidence in its security commitments—including the nuclear guarantee.

The 2022 protests in China have led President Xi Jinping to lift COVID lockdowns. Students held white paper protests to ask for freedom and democracy.

Our weekly roundup of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Council staff share how travel has shaped their worldview.

America saw inaccurate polling for the House and Senate races across the country, which overestimated Democratic support in a wide range of races.

A center-right party’s landslide victory in one of North America’s most liberal cities offers a cautionary tale about polling in urban areas.

The US public's perception of China has changed significantly since Xi Jinping took office, Craig Kafura says.

We enter the ’20s at a time when American power and influence continues to wane, China’s is increasing and people all around the world are making clear that their voices need to be heard.

Matt Abbott joins Al Hurra to discuss Speaker Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and how this visit could impact the US-China relationship.

"We have to deal with China and the way to deal with it is to engage with it," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer in the Wire China.

Despite 75 years of struggle, two scholars remain cautiously optimistic about the future.

Leaders from the US and Europe have much to learn from one another in building strategies to foster economic renewal in formerly industrial regions.

Republicans are more concerned about China's rise than ever before.

Our weekly roundup of the top news in food, agriculture, and global development.

Check out the week's top stories in food, agriculture, and global development.

While understandable, the mood of pessimism around COP27 obscures progress toward net zero and can be dangerously self-fulfilling, argues Chris Morris.

The Port of Darwin shows the potential of China's Belt and Road Initiative as social infrastructure, but also the challenges in materializing its benefits.

This survey data from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs provide insight into how Millennials view key foreign policy issues.

Ivo Daalder explains why the United States and China must engage in a broad dialogue to avoid tensions escalating into a military confrontation neither sides wants.

Council President Ivo Daalder explains why China and Russia are the biggest threats to the transatlantic alliance in a segment for the UK's Channel 4 news.

While Americans favor nuclear energy in general, they are reluctant to developing new nuclear plants.

We share our top picks for books to read in the weeks ahead that delve into what sort of world might emerge when the pandemic has passed.

What is a global city? In the age of globalization, these cities and their corporations, universities, media, and culture run the global economy.

The government must recognize investment opportunities in US agricultural research and development in order to address current and future climate challenges.

Given the Biden administration’s mantra that the US-China relationship “will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, and adversarial where it must be,” Doshi’s discussion of the prospects for bilateral cooperation

As the Christmas holidays approach, we review both key and controversial topics in current politics

Our weekly round up of the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

The public is more concerned about national security than promoting human rights and democracy abroad, Council polling shows.

While the US public believes trade is good for the economy, it does favors some restrictions—especially on goods such as semiconductors.

President Biden declared that "the pandemic is over." Council polling shows that when it comes to security and foreign policy, most Americans agree.

"It will take years of continued improvements to rebuild American confidence and trust in China," Craig Kafura says.

While younger Americans are most concerned about climate change, pluralities of each generation are ready to take action to prevent it.

The Secretary of State’s approach to Beijing risks confirming its suspicions about U.S. subversion while simultaneously alienating the very Chinese people that he aspires to "engage and empower."

Mexico's threat to ban GM corn presents an opportunity to re-evaluate agricultural norms in the United States and address inequities in trade.

The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Republicans with a very favorable view of the former president seem to prefer a US role that is more independent and less cooperative.

Nationwide surveys conducted by IranPoll show that although Iranians say their country should not develop nuclear weapons, they have lost confidence in the nuclear agreement.

But partisan divisions over using US troops to defend allies in Europe and Asia are growing.

For more than a century, tattoo artists have connected Chicagoans with other countries and cultures — a tradition that lives on, even as the industry changes.

While moderate Democrats are more supportive of funding the military, liberals are more willing to deploy troops to defend allies, 2021 Chicago Council Survey data show.

The US strategy toward Africa today is neither effective nor sustainable. It’s time to flip the script.

Dina Smeltz discusses survey data reflecting Japanese opinion on US-China relations.

This Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog post explores tensions between these two key US allies in Asia – Japan and South Korea.

In a shift from just a month ago, the Japanese public favors tough sanctions on Russia in concert with the US and Europe. 

New Chicago Council-Japan Institute of International Affairs data find the Japanese public has greater confidence in US economic and military power than do Americans.

Paul Heer discusses Xi Jinping's "wolf warrior diplomacy."

Turks may be considering realigning eastward amid negative views on Western alliances.