Lyle Goldstein

A family arrives at a gathering in Tehran on March 5, 2026, to mourn the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The attacks by U.S. and Israeli forces on Iran, including the assassination of the country's supreme leader, are confirming Xi Jinping's worldview that hard power is king. (Arash Kamooshi/The New York Times)

Lyle Goldstein: Why Donald Trump’s war could play into China’s hands

March 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Problems in the Persian Gulf are likely to give further impetus to China-Russia energy cooperation in the Arctic.

Wang Yi, right, director of the Communist Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, shakes hands with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, left, at Yanqi Lake in Beijing on Aug. 27, 2024. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Lyle Goldstein: What can the US do to stabilize its relationship with China?

September 11, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Washington should embrace realism and restraint by signaling a return to “strategic ambiguity” in its relationship with China.

A Cheng Kung class frigate fires an anti-air missile July 26, 2022, as part of a navy demonstration in Taiwan's annual Han Kuang exercises off the island's eastern coast near the city of Yilan.

Lyle Goldstein: Biden pokes at China again over Taiwan. At what cost to US national interests?

September 22, 2022 at 8:48 p.m.

President Joe Biden's foreign policy deserves higher marks than most have given it. Biden boldly pulled the plug on the Afghanistan quagmire, so that Americans could stop hemorrhaging blood and...

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