China surprised everyone Tuesday night by acknowledging GDP growth well below 5 percent. The official rate is 4.3 percent for the second quarter and 4.7 percent for the first half, to just over $10.1 ...

The Eurasian Century is a historical and strategic tour de force, broad-ranging and full of insights. Above all, it is a necessary book, an analysis that should be required reading for everyone who ...

In War in Ukraine, Hal Brands brings together an all-star cast of analysts to assess the conflict’s origins, course, and implications and to offer their appraisals of one of the most geopolitically ...

It’s totally understandable that anyone who supports an economic system built around the idea of free enterprise—private businesses making decisions based on price and profit signals in a competitive ...

Physicist and nuclear weapons expert David Albright says the claim that Iran emerged stronger from the war is simply bunk.

The AEI Housing Center aims to monitor market trends through accurate, real-time tracking of house prices. Our new dataset on home price appreciation appears significantly before other indices and ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The China & Taiwan Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

Two months ago, in November 2025, President Trump directed the US Department of Justice to investigate allegations of price-fixing and collusion in the US meatpacking industry. In a Truth Social post, ...