At China’s National People’s Congress, officials revealed that spending on national defense in 2020 would rise to 1.268 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.6%—the lowest in decades.

SOURCE: "Breaking Down China’s 2020 Defense Budget," by CSIS's Bonnie Glaser, Matthew Funaiole, and Brian Hart.

Had the United States not withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017, nearly 40% of the global economy would have been covered by a single trade agreement.

SOURCE: "Stepping Up Trade Leadership," by CSIS's Trade Commission on Affirming American Trade Leadership and the CSIS iDeas Lab.

In April, a simultaneous collapse in oil prices and a 33% drop in economic activity resulted in Russia's GDP contracting a staggering 28%.

SOURCE: "Responding to a Pandemic, Putin Trades Russia’s Future for His Own," By Cyrus Newlin and Heather Conley.

From September 2015 to January 2018, Russian air forces carried out over 34,000 combat sorties in Syria.

SOURCE: "Moscow’s War in Syria," by CSIS's Seth Jones, Brian Katz, Jason Gresh, Nick Harrington, and Edmund Xavier Loughran.