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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 9, 2017
Monetary Policy
So, Is China Pegging to the Dollar or to a Basket?
Does China manage its currency against the dollar, against a basket, or to whatever is most convenient at any given point time? Cynics have argued that China seems to peg to the dollar when the dolla…
September 12, 2019
Iran
Israel Is Doing All the Dirty Work Against Iran
The United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one carrying it out.
February 2, 2022
Russia
Putin's Ukraine Quagmire
Putin's mostly manufactured crisis risks leaving Russia worse off.
February 1, 2022
China
The Games Nobody Wants: How the Winter Olympics Became a Headache for China
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing were supposed to be a triumph for the Chinese government. But the COVID-19 pandemic and diplomatic boycotts have hampered its plans.
February 13, 2023
Americas
C.V. Starr & Co. Annual Lecture on China: Frayed Relations—The United States and China
Panelists discuss the relationship between the United States and China, how confrontational and sometimes false narratives in both countries are affecting it, and how the governments of both countrie…
July 20, 2021
Middle East and North Africa
Generation X’s Short Arc of History
Ben Rhodes’s new book about global politics reveals the limits of the Obama administration’s worldview.
