Bill Powell

At the meeting with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, President Trump made Chinese leaders happy but sandbagged his own Pentagon.

Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may last only a few hours—but that's enough time to worry leaders in Beijing and Tokyo.

For years, he's been seen as a naif or a madman. But what if Kim Jong Un is the smartest guy in the room?

For an administration that is dealing with Pyongyang's nuclear program, there's a big dilemma: The strategy's contentious language about China, in particular, may make it harder to try to enlist Beijing's help.

A billion-dollar corruption trial in New York could imperil the Turkish government—and members of the Trump team.

Once a staunch Reagan Republican, Laura Ingraham has become Trump's top tub-thumper—and Fox's new star. But is her love for the Donald genuine or something more cynical?

The North Korean leader wants to put a nuclear warhead on a missile and aim it at the United States. Is there still time to stop him?

A world without a new U.S.-led trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region means that an increasingly powerful China will step into the void.

Meaning "compromising information," kompromat has taken hold in U.S. politics and media.

The White House is warning Donald Trump that North Korea is America's biggest foreign policy problem, which is absurd.

Trump's improbable run to the presidency was guided by a conviction that he could smash the "great blue wall" of Midwestern Democratic states. And smash it he did.

For a long time, the Chinese reacted to Donald Trump's candidacy by basically ignoring it or considering it a sideshow.

The so-called caliphate may be losing ground in Iraq and Syria, but hardcore jihadis will keep fighting—there and in the West.

North Korea is stuck in an endless cycle of nuclear tests and sanctions.

The Saudis believe Obama, in pursuing a deal with Iran, has upended the security status quo in the Middle East.

The stage may be set for a historic battle between Japan's political establishment and the Chrysanthemum Throne.

The purge after a failed coup is extending to state-owned businesses.

Brexit shows the European Union needs to reject 'ever closer union' and become more democratic to save the grand European project.

Obama's "smart power" doctrine turned out to be not so smart when it came to toppling Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Trump and Clinton agree on one thing: The latest big trade deal with Asia stinks. But that doesn't mean they're right.

China's building spree on remote islands in the South China Sea has its neighbors worried and turning to Washington.

From hotels to agrochemicals, there has been a huge wave of Chinese direct investment in both the United States and Europe.

Donald Trump isn't totally wrong on this one!

The Apple case has raised the issue of whether the tech giant gives foreign governments things it refuses to give to the FBI.

As Japan resorts to negative interest rates and stocks tumble, China must be worried that it's on the same economic track.

The West got a pass in the last Asian financial crisis. Not this time.

North Korea's nuclear weapons program is expanding—and China won't do much about it.

Homegrown extremists such as the San Bernardino attackers give ISIS a terrifying new weapon.

China says it will clean up its act, but when it's good and ready.

Don't expect the Paris attacks to mark the end of a war that began almost a decade and a half ago.