U.S. President Donald Trump made his first state visit to India last week, looking to shore up bilateral ties and secure progress on several touchy issues, most notably the U.S.-India trade imbalance.

Starting in the Obama era, America has reshaped its relationships. Now the emphasis is primarily on China, with policy driving at Cold War-style containment.

The president of the United States surprised his Indian counterpart by touting U.S. friendship with India’s arch rival, Pakistan. Such gaffes aside, India is looking to America for some advantages, while balancing relations with China.

US-China economic and technology relations are in an unexpected flux since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

While the timing of the coronavirus outbreak is awkward, given the China-bashing realities of an election year in the United States, bilateral and global cooperation remain the only answer.

The coronavirus crisis presents an opportunity for collaboration to the U.S. and China. It is time the two nations abandon their habitual defamation of one another for political gain and consolidate their efforts to stop this crisis in its tracks.

A collective identity along the lines of the European Union is an attractive prospect in the era of globalization. But there are significant barriers, including the fact that it would exclude the United States.

The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani caused an already tense U.S.-Iran relationship to move further into disarray. Not spared from the chaos was China, whose diplomatic and economic agenda in South Asia is now in jeopardy.

The hypocrisy of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his hawkish criticism of China displays the fundamental undiplomatic character that has defined the Trump administration even in the face of the globe’s most recent crises.

Iraq is an example of how recent instability in American-Middle Eastern relations has opened the door for China to expand its influence in the region via investment projects and an exploitation of local politics.