Foreign Policy Forum

The mass internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China's Xinjiang region has been described by many nations as crimes against humanity, if not genocide. What began as a significant human rights concern has also become a trade and commercial one: Xinjiang is a major global source of raw materials and components that are…

After three decades of offshoring, American manufacturing investment has turned sharply homeward. Tariffs, pandemic-era supply chain shocks, and a bipartisan turn toward industrial policy have pushed companies to build capacity in North America, while the buildout of artificial intelligence has created enormous new demand for data centers and the power to run them. The reshoring…

The architecture of the past six decades of global aid and health security has been dismantled in a remarkably short span of time. USAID, for many years the primary vehicle for American development and humanitarian assistance, was dissolved in 2025. In January 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization.…