China’s 2024 current account surplus was around $430 billion, below $500 billion dollar surplus registered by the European ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Kenyan teacher, activist, and social media campaigner Albert Ojwang is finally ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic could revolutionize global health security, but the window for change is closing—quickly. In the latest Council Special Report, Yanzhong Huang and Rebecca Katz ...

Steven Levitsky is the senior fellow for democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also currently the David Rockefeller professor of Latin American studies and professor of ...