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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Froman |Linda Robinson |Thomas J. Bollyky |Yanzhong Huang
Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves will cede Washington’s longstanding leadership role to Beijing. American power and prestige, they charge, will wane, and China’s will grow. The reality is worse.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
thediplomat.com | Yanzhong Huang
The pandemic left an indelible but mixed imprint on everything from patterns of socio-economic development to China’s state apparatus and foreign relations. Five years after the novel coronavirus first emerged, China’s major metropolises bear virtually no visible scars of their unprecedented battle with COVID-19.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Yanzhong Huang
10 hours agoCuba has endured one of its toughest weeks in years after a nationwide blackout which left around 10 million Cubans without power for several days. Adding to the Caribbean island’s problems, Hurricane Oscar left a trail of destruction along the north-eastern coast, leaving several dead and causing …
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Yanzhong Huang
In China, people are notoriously practical when it comes to selecting college majors. My personal experience illustrates that. After ranking among the top 10 students in my home province’s college entrance examination scores, I received unsolicited advice on picking majors. My parents were counselled to steer me away from journalism, as it no longer promised a decent job placement after graduation.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | David Kaye |Yanzhong Huang |Mariel Ferragamo
With one eye on the law and another on its power, the International Court of Justice in The Hague has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of South Africa’s claim that Israel’s military assault in Gaza may be plausibly characterized as genocide.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Daniel Byman |Yanzhong Huang |Carl Minzner |Michelle Gavin
If devastation is the goal, Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip has been a resounding success. More than two months after Hamas killed over 1,100 people on October 7, Israeli air and ground operations have killed some 20,000 Palestinians, many of them children, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. Much of Gaza lies in ruins, with the United Nations estimating that almost 20 percent of the territory’s prewar structures have been destroyed.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Yanzhong Huang |Carl Minzner |Michelle Gavin
Most Americans think their country is in decline. So do their leaders. Both Joe Biden andDonald Trump have embraced foreign policies premised on the notion that the global order no longer serves American interests. But these pessimistic assumptions are wrong, Fareed Zakaria argues in a new essay for Foreign Affairs. Moreover, they are leading the country to embrace strategies that will harm much of the world—and the United States most of all.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
thinkglobalhealth.org | Yanzhong Huang
Both the United States and China were quick to congratulate themselves after their recent summit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. After years of deteriorating bilateral relations, the countries agreed to resume military-to-military communications and accelerate climate actions and made progress on efforts to curb Chinese fentanyl exports, reduce risks associated with artificial intelligence, and expand people-to-people exchanges.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Richard Gowan |Yanzhong Huang |Carl Minzner |Michelle Gavin
Ever since 1947, when the UN General Assembly voted in favor of partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, the organization has grappled with crises in the Middle East. In recent decades, discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the UN have featured the same basic dynamic: the United States uses its veto to block criticism of Israel at the Security Council while Arab states rally developing countries to defend the Palestinians.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Alexandra Chinchilla |Sam Rosenberg |Yanzhong Huang |Jonathan Masters
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive enters its fourth month, its armed forces have shown tenacity and adaptability. Kyiv is applying pressure across multiple fronts in southern and eastern Ukraine, and it has made notable progress. In August, Ukraine liberated the village of Robotyne, penetrating the first line of minefields, tank traps, and trenches in the south.
