Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

China Strategy Initiative

Securing America: Key Authorities Under the Defense Production Act

Four points framed Dr. Doshi’s remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. First, China is an ambitious and formidable competitor unlike any the United States h…

Testimony by Rush Doshi May 22, 2025 China Strategy Initiative

China Strategy Initiative

Securing America: Key Authorities Under the Defense Production Act

Four points framed Dr. Doshi’s remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. First, China is an ambitious and formidable competitor unlike any the United States h…

Testimony by Rush Doshi May 22, 2025 China Strategy Initiative

China

Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Panda Diplomacy—China's Soft Power in Black and White

TRANSCRIPT SMITH: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going to get started. Thank you for being quiet so quickly. You guys are, like, the best behaved audience ever. I feel like if we nee…

Virtual Event with Bryan Amaral, Rush Doshi, Melissa Songer, Jennifer Griffin and Brandie Smith May 27, 2025 Asia Program

China

Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Panda Diplomacy—China's Soft Power in Black and White

TRANSCRIPT SMITH: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going to get started. Thank you for being quiet so quickly. You guys are, like, the best behaved audience ever. I feel like if we nee…

Virtual Event with Bryan Amaral, Rush Doshi, Melissa Songer, Jennifer Griffin and Brandie Smith May 27, 2025 Asia Program

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June 6, 2025

United States

International Students Are Critical for U.S. Innovation. Why Are They at Risk?

International students contribute essential research and tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. The Trump administration has moved to curtail foreign enrollments to combat what it says is d…

Harvard University students exit the school's Commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 29, 2025.

Article by Diana Roy

May 1, 2025

Ukraine

What’s the Deal with Trump’s Ukraine Mineral Agreement?

The new agreement will allow the United States to share in future revenue earned from Ukraine’s critical mineral reserves. It is seen as a way to tie the United States—and Trump—to Ukraine’s future.

A field dotted with snow is seen in the background. There is a large crane as an apparent part of a mining operation. In the foreground, a woman on a bicycle trails behind a black-and-white dog

Article by Heidi Crebo-Rediker Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

March 31, 2025

Trade

Critical Minerals Executive Order Leverages DFC and National Security Authorities

A brief analysis of the recent use of national security and foreign policy tools to promote domestic mineral production.

Article by William Henagan RealEcon

May 1, 2025

Daily News Brief

United States and Ukraine Ink Minerals Deal

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

An excavator digs as mining dump trucks drive in the Southern Iron Ore JV open-pit mine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine April 23, 2025.

Article by CFR.org Editors

April 22, 2025

Daily News Brief

Trump’s Criticism of Fed Chair

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a press conference, following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy, in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2025.

Article by CFR.org Editors

June 11, 2025

Trade

Trade Calendar

Trade and tariffs are a central part of President Donald Trump’s international economic policy. Stay up to date with the Council on Foreign Relation’s calendar of significant trade-related events.

Article by Allison J. Smith RealEcon

June 11, 2025

Daily News Brief

China and the United States Reach Trade Plan

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese vice premier He Lifeng pose for a photo with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, and China's International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Li Chenggang, in London, Britain June 9, 2025.

Article by CFR.org Editors

August 15, 2024

China Strategy Initiative

The US Needs More than a Critical Minerals Stockpile, It Needs Market Infrastructure

Last month, Ganfeng Lithium, China’s largest lithium producer and refiner, announced plans to establish a $1.1 billion trading desk “to reduce the risk of market fluctuations” associated with its gro…

Employees monitor screens showing real-time footages of mining operations in a ground control centre, at Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Shenmu of Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Article by Arnab Datta and Ashley George China Strategy Initiative

April 4, 2025

RealEcon

Why Sub-Saharan Africa Matters for U.S. Economic and National Security

Building relationships with the region, rather than transactional neocolonialism, is the best route for strengthening the United States’ critical mineral supply chains.

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco

Article by Richard Morrow RealEcon

June 9, 2025

Daily News Brief

Trump’s New Travel Ban Takes Effect

An information board showing international arrivals at John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 9, 2025 in New York City.

Article by CFR.org Editors