The vessel that hit Baltimore’s Key Bridge is more than three times as large as its biggest counterparts 50 years ago.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/27/baltimore-bridge-collapse-global-shipping-container-ships/
The maritime order is falling apart under geopolitical pressure.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/26/russia-shadow-fleet-denmark-straits-shipping-sanctions/
Indian girls account for one-third of child brides around the world.
Plus: How does the business model of resort hotels work?
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/covid-19s-long-shadow-part-4/
The canny marketing of imports from vodka to basketballs transformed the U.S.-China trade relationship.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/24/us-china-trade-relations-economic-history-imports/
The economics work, but the politics can be troubling.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/23/the-rise-of-the-all-inclusive-resort/
The country is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the end of the Cold War.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/22/cuba-protests-economy-crisis-food-electricity-us-sanctions/
There are real issues—but they go far beyond one app.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/21/tiktok-ban-washington-congress-data-security/
Discontent about the country’s poor economic reality is starting to drown out nationalist calls to attack Taiwan.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/21/china-taiwan-public-opinion-war-economy-unification/
Plus: How Benin expanded access to abortion.
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission makes the case for competition in an increasingly consolidated world.
A campaign to control generative AI raises questions about the future of the industry in China.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/19/china-ai-regulation-artificial-intelligence-tech/
China’s real estate collapse is sinking projects beyond its borders.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/18/malaysia-china-real-estate-countrygarden-forestcity/
The Biden administration unveiled its first-ever sanctions on Israeli settler outposts this week.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/15/us-israel-sanctions-west-bank-settler-outpost-war/
Plus: China’s 5 percent growth target.
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/covid-19-long-shadow-part-3/
Beijing recently announced a 5 percent growth target amid economic headwinds.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/15/china-economy-real-estate-deglobalization-renewable-energy/
The Inter-American Development Bank is piloting new lending practices for the green transition.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/15/inter-american-development-bank-lending-climate-finance-imf/
The agreement with four European states is part of a subtle shift in policy from New Delhi.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/13/india-efta-free-trade-deal-protectionism/
If period products were free, it would transform hundreds of millions of girls’ and women’s lives.
More than a century after the Herero-Nama genocide, Namibian communities are seeking compensation, land redistribution, and a seat at the table.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/13/namibia-calls-for-reparations-talks-with-germany/
A false narrative is being peddled by the Kremlin and its Western friends.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/11/russia-sanctions-oil-gas-populists-europe-elections/
Deflation and lack of consumption are big problems for Beijing.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/11/china-economy-gdp-deflation-consumption/
Plus: Oppenheimer and the economics of the Manhattan Project.
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/covid-19s-long-shadow-part-2/
The Manhattan Project was, in many ways, the largest project ever undertaken by the U.S. state.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/08/oppenheimer-oscars-film-movie-economics-united-states-nuclear/
And the West isn’t ready for it.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/07/china-ev-byd-cars-auto-industry-price-war/