China’s 2024 current account surplus was around $430 billion, below $500 billion dollar surplus registered by the European Union (EU). As a share of national GDP, China's surplus of just over 2 ...

Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...

The Trump administration initially expected to conclude multiple trade deals by the end of the 90-day pause but found that ...

Why is contact between law enforcement and the average citizen in Africa so frequently lethal?

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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 ...