Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

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

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

Backgrounder 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…

Interactive 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

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

Ukraine

Securing Ukraine's Future

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, the international context is changing rapidly, including the prospects for a negotiated settlement. Much is at stake, and it is essential that the challenges ahead be fully appreciated. Panelists will explore three critical issues for securing Ukraine's future: achieving a just and durable peace, ensuring its long-term security, and helping it rebuild and recover from the ravages of war. This event is part of the Council’s Special Initiative on Securing Ukraine’s Future which provides timely, informed analysis and practical policy recommendations for U.S. policymakers and the American public. Click here to download the full agenda. This event is part of the Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security which is made possible by the generous support of the Ed and Sue Wachenheim Foundation.

Virtual Event with Philip M. Breedlove, Fiona Hill, Natalie A. Jaresko, Keith Kellogg, Pavlo Klimkin, Alina Polyakova, Vladyslav Rashkovan, Margaret Brennan, Heidi Crebo-Rediker and Liana Fix March 6, 2025

Ukraine

Securing Ukraine's Future

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September 27, 2024

China

China-Russia Relations: September 2024

China and Russia have strengthened ties, despite tensions in the financial sector. The United States is closely monitoring their activity and increasing Chinese support for Russia's war effort in Ukr…

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Article by Anya Konstantinovsky and Molly Carlough China Strategy Initiative

January 29, 2025

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Could Turn to China as Trump Pulls Aid From the Country

The Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid to Bangladesh could undermine U.S. strategic interests by pushing Bangladesh closer to China.

Muhammad Yunnus stands at a podium at the UN General Assembly wearing a white vest and blue shirt.

Article by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

January 16, 2025

China

Tracking China’s Investment in Airports

This interactive map tracks China’s growing network of investments in overseas airports. Users can plot the location of each airport and view satellite images alongside detailed information on which …

A passenger plane arrives at the Siem Reap Angkor International Airport SAI in Siem Reap province, Cambodia

Tracker by Zongyuan Zoe Liu Asia Program

January 24, 2025

Border and Port Security

U.S.-Mexico Relations

Over the course of two hundred years, the United States and Mexico have developed rich diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties but at times clashed over borders, migration, trade, and an escalating d…

Timeline by Diana Roy and Brianna Lee

January 23, 2025

Cuba

U.S.-Cuba Relations

Since Fidel Castro’s ascent to power in 1959, U.S.-Cuba ties have endured a nuclear crisis, a long U.S. economic embargo, and persistent political hostilities. The diplomatic relationship thawed unde…

Timeline by CFR.org Editors

November 21, 2024

China

The China-North Korea Relationship

Complex dynamics between the two Asian nuclear powers are shifting once again as North Korea deepens ties with Russia and the U.S.-China rivalry intensifies.

Chinese and North Korean artists perform during the opening ceremony of "North Korea-China Friendship Year" at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang on April 12, 2024.

Backgrounder by Clara Fong

February 5, 2025

China

Trump Is Fulfilling His Campaign Promises; Plus, How Beijing Is Handling the Brewing U.S.-China Tariff Battle

Trump’s administration is following through on its campaign promises to implement tariffs, but China has become more resilient and prepared to counter U.S. economic pressure.

Workers wearing blue shirts and hats and black pants surround a car as they work on assembling it in a factory.

Article by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

Present

Europe's China Policy and Transatlantic Relations

China has emerged as a major economic and security challenge to Europe. At the same time, disagreements about how to address this threat have driven a wedge into not only Europe, but also the transat…

January 7, 2025

China Strategy Initiative

China in Latin America: December 2024

In December, China countered U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s claims about the Panama Canal. Brazilian labor authorities uncovered “slavery-like conditions” at a construction site for Chinese elec…

A drone view shows BYD's new electric vehicle (EV) factory's construction site in Camacari, Brazil December 26, 2024.

Article by Julia Huesa and Steven Holmes China Strategy Initiative

March 4, 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 Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies