The long year: Top foreign policy trends for 2021
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
Asia
Europe’s China deal: How not to work with the Biden administration
The mere prospect of a strengthened EU-US alliance forced Beijing to make concessions to Brussels last month – a lesson on the power of global coalition-building that Europe failed to take on
How China is undermining digital trust – and how democracies can respond
A ‘whole stakeholder approach’ is key to taking on and defeating online disinformation
Top ten foreign policy trends in 2021
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
Europe & Japan relations after the US elections
How will the new administration impact US Indo-Pacific strategy and China policy?
Beijing’s megaphone: The return of party propaganda in south-eastern Europe
Within less than a decade, China has significantly expanded its media presence in south-eastern Europe. The country is increasingly well-positioned to amplify its voice, disseminate imagery, and convey its narratives
Sovereign Europe, hostile world: In conversation with Josep Borrell, HRVP
The EU's High Representative, Josep Borrell, and Mark Leonard discussed why strategic autonomy matters
Protecting Europe from economic coercion: Strategy after the 2020 US election
Europe needs to enhance its toolbox for protection against economic coercion, carefully balancing its strategy in five areas
Climate superpowers: How the EU and China can compete and cooperate for a green future
As climate action becomes more material to economic interests, Europe and China will both compete and cooperate with each other, against the backdrop of an overarching systemic rivalry
Promoting European strategic sovereignty in Asia
Europe should upgrade its security activities, and seize the moment to push multilateral institutions up the agenda. But it will be Europe’s connectivity agenda that provides the golden thread running through its foreign policy and its other objectives in the region.