In a former issue of Foreign Affairs the present writer described how Europe received the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.[iii] In spite of official denials it is clear that many of the foreign tariff revisions ...

China also has a substantial holding in U.S. treasury bonds—roughly $760 billion—making it the second-largest foreign creditor to the United States, after Japan. This economic reality ...

Hungary’s government will vote against the European Union’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said during a break at a cabinet meeting on ...

But even on those terms, the strategy will do more harm than good. As I warned in Foreign Affairs last October, the fundamental problem with Trump’s economic approach is that it would need to carry ...

Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing Israeli war on Gaza, the plight of Palestinians in the occupied territories has rightfully attracted the attention of observers in the ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Although the dollar overtook the British pound sterling in the mid-1920s as the currency of choice in global foreign exchange reserves, its stature as the world’s reserve currency was secured only at ...

Last Wednesday, which Trump dubbed “Liberation Day,” the president announced large-scale tariffs on nearly every country, declaring that the measures would help to end American trade deficits with ...

In an interview with Euronews, Canadian foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly made a plea to strengthen already close relations between Canada and the EU in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

As a result, Americans, far from laying aside their differences when they look abroad, now see foreign affairs as yet another arena for prosecuting domestic disputes. It’s no wonder foreign aid ...

Less than two months after he committed to a phased cease-fire with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed his country’s war in the Gaza Strip. On March 18, Israeli air force jets ...

April 6, 2025 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High ...