Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense
Feb 8, 2024 · Taiwan has the potential to be a flash point in U.S.-China relations. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei in 2022 heightened tensions.
What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
Sep 18, 2024 · Summary. In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an ambitious roadmap to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet against ...
North Korea Crisis | Global Conflict Tracker - Council on Foreign …
Oct 17, 2024 · In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, North Korea implemented one of the world’s strictest border closures, further depressing the country’s economy and exacerbating hunger. However, North ...
Global Growth Tracker: World Economies by GDP - Council on …
Jun 12, 2024 · And in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a collapse in GDP at a pace comparable to that during the Great Depression. Global growth resumed in 2021, at a robust 6 percent pace, before ...
Conflict in Syria | Global Conflict Tracker - Council on Foreign …
Feb 13, 2024 · Estimates in May 2023 put the death toll at almost 60,000, with 50,700 casualties in Turkey and 8,400 in Syria. Syria’s twelve years of conflict have severely hindered its relief efforts—the ...
Cryptocurrencies, Digital Dollars, and the Future of Money
Jan 17, 2024 · The dizzying rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has created new challenges for governments and central banks. Some are responding by introducing their own digital currencies.
Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
Sep 17, 2024 · China's aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in a military drill in the western Pacific Ocean on April 18, 2018. (Stringer/Reuters) The U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the ...
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What Is NATO? - Council on Foreign Relations
Mar 18, 2024 · Established during the Cold War, NATO is a transatlantic security alliance composed of thirty-two member countries, including the United States. NATO has focused on deterring Russian aggression in ...
The U.S. Immigration Debate | Council on Foreign Relations
Aug 7, 2024 · Immigrants composed an estimated 13.9 percent of the U.S. population in 2022, amounting to roughly 46 million people out of a total of almost 335 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau data ...