Skip to main content

Foreign Affairs Magazine Homepage

Explore Subscribe

All Articles
Books & Reviews
Podcast
Anthologies
Audio Content
Author Directory
This Day in History
Events

War in Ukraine
U.S. Foreign Policy
Xi Jinping
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
Artificial Intelligence
Climate Change
Geopolitics
Israel-Hamas War
Biden Administration
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Globalization
U.S.-Chinese Relations
Hamas
Hezbollah

Ukraine
Russia
China
Iran
Iraq
Israel
India
North Korea
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
United States
Turkey
Palestinian Territories
View All Regions

Essays
Snapshots
Capsule Reviews
Review Essays
Ask the Experts
Reading Lists
Interviews
Responses

1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s

Newsletters
Customer Service
Frequently Asked Questions
Subscriber Resources
Feedback
Group Subscriptions
Gift a Subscription
Contact
Advertise

Follow Us

Foreign Affairs Magazine Homepage

Explore My Account Sign In

Current Issue
Archive
Books & Reviews
Podcast
Newsletters

Subscribe Sign in

Regions Asia

Asia

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, history, and economics in Asia, spanning from China and India to the countries of Central Asia, the Pacific, and beyond.

Top Stories

ISSUE: September/October 2022

The Weakness of Xi Jinping

How Hubris and Paranoia Threaten China’s Future

Cai Xia

Read the full article

Aly Song / Reuters

Related:

China
Taiwan
Japan
Xi Jinping
Chinese-Taiwanese Relations

Wars Are Not Accidents

Erik Lin-Greenberg

Asia Has No Hegemon

Susannah Patton, Hervé Lemahieu

The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

Andrew J. Nathan

America’s Asian Partners Are Not Worried Enough About Trump

The Dangerous Myth of Deglobalization

The Myth of the Asian Swing State

Made in China: When U.S.-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

Barry Eichengreen

Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty

Andrew J. Nathan

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Andrew J. Nathan

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Andrew J. Nathan

Three Books on Technology, Governance, and Capitalism in China

Andrew J. Nathan

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Andrew J. Nathan

Korea: A New History of South and North

Andrew J. Nathan

The Strategic Case for Democracy Promotion in Asia

Michael Green, Daniel Twining

America Can’t Surpass China’s Power in Asia

Kelly A. Grieco, Jennifer Kavanagh

Can China Swing Taiwan’s Elections?

How the Israel-Hamas War Is Reshaping the Middle East

Foreign Affairs

Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border

Andrew J. Nathan

Reading the China Dream

Andrew J. Nathan

Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

Andrew J. Nathan

An Ecological History of Modern China

Andrew J. Nathan

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Andrew J. Nathan

A Paradigm Shift in America’s Asia Policy

Who Killed the Chinese Economy?

Foreign Affairs

Three Books on World War II

Lawrence D. Freedman

What Russia Really Wants

Hanoi’s American Hedge

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region

Andrew Moravcsik

America’s Window of Opportunity in Asia

Andrew Yeo, Mireya Solís, Hanna Foreman

The Upside of U.S.-Chinese Competition

The Great Convergence

Branko Milanovic

Does America Still Need Europe?

Emma Ashford, Joshua Shifrinson, Stephen Wertheim, Michael J. Mazarr

The West Versus the Rest

Foreign Affairs

Racism, Diplomacy, and International Relations

G. John Ikenberry

Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples: A Cultural Cartography of Empire

Andrew J. Nathan

The Cashless Revolution: China’s Reinvention of Money and the End of America’s Domination of Finance and Technology

Barry Eichengreen

The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet

Andrew J. Nathan

Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan

Andrew J. Nathan

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Barry Eichengreen

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Andrew J. Nathan

The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership

Barry Eichengreen

On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea

Andrew J. Nathan

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Andrew J. Nathan

Two Books on Artificial Intelligence

Lawrence D. Freedman

China’s Quest for Financial Self-Reliance: How Beijing Plans to Decouple From the Dollar-Based Global Trading and Financial System

Andrew J. Nathan

Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order

Barry Eichengreen

China’s Indo-Pacific Folly

Andrew D. Taffer, David Wallsh

The Problem With Primacy

Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

Andrew J. Nathan

Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

Andrew J. Nathan

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

Lawrence D. Freedman

Open Borders, Open Society? Immigration and Social Integration in Japan

Andrew J. Nathan

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons From East Asia

Andrew J. Nathan

The Fractured Himalaya: India, Tibet, China, 1949–1962

Andrew J. Nathan

On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border

Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

Andrew J. Nathan

Confronting South Korea’s Next Crisis: Rigidities, Polarization, and Fear of Japanification

Barry Eichengreen

A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955

Lawrence D. Freedman

The End of the Post-Soviet Order

Marlene Laruelle

Old World Order

Threading the Needle in Southeast Asia

Bilahari Kausikan

The Next Sino-Russian Split?

Odd Arne Westad

A Practical Vision for South Korea

China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters

Barry Eichengreen

Can America Rebuild Its Power in Asia?

Michael J. Green, Evan S. Medeiros

A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific

Andrew J. Nathan

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

America Is Up—and China Is Down—in Asia

Michael Fullilove, Hervé Lemahieu

Who’s to Blame for Asia’s Arms Race?

Thomas Shugart, Van Jackson

Xi’s Confidence Game

Jude Blanchette

The U.S. Military and the Coming Great-Power Challenge

Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

America Is Turning Asia Into a Powder Keg

Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a Twenty-First-Century Conflict

Andrew J. Nathan

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWS in the Korean War

Andrew J. Nathan

Two Books on Chinese Economic Influence

Andrew J. Nathan

Three Books on Tibet

Andrew J. Nathan

Two Books on Chinese Strategy

Andrew J. Nathan

Beijing’s American Hustle

America Still Needs to Rebalance to Asia

Zack Cooper, Adam P. Liff

Hong Kong and the Limits of Decoupling

Regime Change Is Not an Option in China

Evan S. Medeiros, Ashley J. Tellis

Life of the Party

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

The Robber Barons of Beijing

Anti-imperial Subjects

Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?

Washington Is Avoiding the Tough Questions on Taiwan and China

Charles L. Glaser

The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia—and What It Should Avoid

Nicolas van de Walle

A Prison Called Tibet

Howard W. French

America Can—and Should—Vaccinate the World

Helene Gayle, Gordon LaForge, Anne-Marie Slaughter

America’s Indo-Pacific Folly

Colossus Constrained

Charles Kupchan

Japan Is the New Leader of Asia’s Liberal Order

The Diplomat as Gardener

The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority

Andrew J. Nathan

The Arena

Bilahari Kausikan

Two Books on the Belt and Road Initiative

Andrew J. Nathan

China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

Andrew J. Nathan

Can America Restore Its Credibility in Asia?

Michael J. Green, Evan S. Medeiros

Get the Magazine

Save up to 55%

on Foreign Affairs!

Foreign Affairs

Weekly Newsletter

Get in-depth analysis delivered right to your inbox

About Us Staff Work at Foreign Affairs Events Podcast

Frequently Asked Questions Customer Service Contact Us Submissions Permissions Advertise Press Center Leave Us Feedback

Subscriptions Group Subscriptions Give a Gift Donate Download iOS App Download Android App Newsletters

Graduate School Forum

From the publishers of Foreign Affairs

Cyber Week in Review: October 18, 2024

Kat Duffy

Election 2024: Is the United States Ready to Confront the Axis of Autocracies?

James M. Lindsay

Where is the Lebanese Zelensky, Part II

Elliott Abrams

Council on Foreign Relations

From the
publishers of
Foreign Affairs

Cyber Week in Review: October 18, 2024

Kat Duffy

Election 2024: Is the United States Ready to Confront the Axis of Autocracies?

Author:James M. Lindsay

Where is the Lebanese Zelensky, Part II

Author:Elliott Abrams

Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

Privacy Policy Terms of Use

©2024 Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. All Rights Reserved.