@cfr_orgCouncil on Foreign Relations

🌏 We provide background and analysis on foreign policy and world news.

card updated Oct 4, 2026 · 23 clips parsed · following 21 · 898,900 likes total

Engagement10.01%above average

Account summary

@cfr_org has 89,400 followers and 747 videos. Across the 23 parsed clips the average is 105,857 views and 9,804 likes. Engagement to views is 10.01%, which is above average for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is falling (−3.74 pp). Posts roughly 0.3 times a week. An average clip reaches 118% of the follower count.

Followers

89.4K

history is still being collected

Engagement

10.01%

−3.74 pp newer half

Average views

105.9K

median 14.3K

Likes per clip

9.8K

393 comments avg

Shares / saves

401 / 740

0.7% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.3 / wk

reach 118% of followers

Latest clips

23 collected

“I feel like the United States used to be an engineering state—when I’ — @cfr_org

77.5K0:48“I feel like the United States used to be an engineering state—when I’m walking around cities like New York, you know, i6.4K268416530

“When I’m walking around in the AI labs in San Francisco, maybe like a — @cfr_org

38.3K0:47“When I’m walking around in the AI labs in San Francisco, maybe like a third, maybe even half the folks have Chinese her1.4K122152263

“The idea that Mark Zuckerberg was sitting in his Harvard dorm room an — @cfr_org

19.7K0:45“The idea that Mark Zuckerberg was sitting in his Harvard dorm room and would have been deterred from starting Meta if t1.3K1491778

Sebastian Mallaby is departing The Spillover to write a new book on Da — @cfr_org

8141:41Sebastian Mallaby is departing The Spillover to write a new book on Dario Amodei and Anthropic. To celebrate his time co24001

“We’re in the early stages of building out a humanoid robot industrial — @cfr_org

7301:10“We’re in the early stages of building out a humanoid robot industrial base, and we want that here, rather than waiting 30404

“When Congress or an agency restricts a Chinese product from the U.S. — @cfr_org

6801:15“When Congress or an agency restricts a Chinese product from the U.S. market, how often do the Chinese sellers cheat the362311

“I think people vastly overestimate the extent to which current leads — @cfr_org

4K1:20“I think people vastly overestimate the extent to which current leads and cutting-edge AGI attempts will confer lasting 14817727

“The next president is going to inherit the expiration of the Social S — @cfr_org

109.8K1:03“The next president is going to inherit the expiration of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds,” says Natasha Sa5.1K544330628

“The problem is not [OpenAI’s] products. The problem is the cash burn, — @cfr_org

7.6K2:09“The problem is not [OpenAI’s] products. The problem is the cash burn,” says Sebastian Mallaby in a conversation with Re24014640

“From the Mexican perspective we don't view ourselves as a middle powe — @cfr_org

24.1K0:52“From the Mexican perspective we don't view ourselves as a middle power,” says Roberto Velasco, secretary of foreign aff2.1K5260275

"Belonging is at the heart of everything. My values, my traditions—the — @cfr_org

1.3K1:54"Belonging is at the heart of everything. My values, my traditions—they are part of who I am,” says Ghana’s President Jo1202316

“I think part of it is a desire to figure out what is a way of decidin — @cfr_org

6772:13“I think part of it is a desire to figure out what is a way of deciding better in real time when these [geoeconomic] flu27102

“Thirty billion comes in, and two-hundred-and-something billion leaves — @cfr_org

220.2K2:02“Thirty billion comes in, and two-hundred-and-something billion leaves Africa every year. When we talk about a world tha34.8K1K1.8K3.1K

“Somaliland is strategically located across the Gulf of Aden from Yeme — @cfr_org

2.5K2:21“Somaliland is strategically located across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen. And the Houthis from Yemen now control a [nearb79453

“If anybody proposes a concept of annihilating a civilization, it is a — @cfr_org

566.2K1:04“If anybody proposes a concept of annihilating a civilization, it is anathema to me. . . . I’m not referring to anybody,105.4K2.5K3.2K6.4K

“We now for sure know that the UN is essential for small states to be — @cfr_org

4.3K0:43“We now for sure know that the UN is essential for small states to be able to survive in this world,” states Mia Mottley2729823

“When the compact was received, the health ministry studied it . . . a — @cfr_org

4.2K2:04“When the compact was received, the health ministry studied it . . . and [it] was brought to cabinet, and we flagged sev21875830

“They’re still talking about winning,” argues journalist Anne Applebau — @cfr_org

2.3K2:07“They’re still talking about winning,” argues journalist Anne Applebaum, discussing Russia’s war aims in Ukraine with Th533185

“When I meet the American president, I say what the Norwegian prime mi — @cfr_org

61.9K1:33“When I meet the American president, I say what the Norwegian prime minister should say, which is the following, ’Mr. Pr2.6K10478299

“Imagine we’re in the sea and we’re being denied the right to do frees — @cfr_org

24.7K2:25“Imagine we’re in the sea and we’re being denied the right to do freestyle, breast style, backstroke. And the only thing2.8K98333352

As the United States turns 250, we asked members of the Society for Hi — @cfr_org

48.8KAs the United States turns 250, we asked members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations what they c1.5K7174323

The 1990s were a turning point in foreign policy. Historic agreements — @cfr_org

14.3K0:19The 1990s were a turning point in foreign policy. Historic agreements in diplomacy and trade signed that still shape glo8851670100

Does the United States still have the upper hand in trade negotiations — @cfr_org

1.2M1:41Does the United States still have the upper hand in trade negotiations with China? In this March 31 discussion, CFR Chin59.9K4K2.6K4.5K

Engagement per clip

23 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 19.6% ER

Apr 7Oct 2Oct 13

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Oct 13, 2026	77,500	6,373	268	416	530	9.11%
Oct 13, 2026	38,300	1,403	122	152	263	4.38%
Oct 13, 2026	19,700	1,271	149	17	78	7.29%
Oct 12, 2026	814	24	0	0	1	2.95%
Oct 12, 2026	730	30	4	0	4	4.66%
Oct 12, 2026	680	36	2	3	11	6.03%
Oct 12, 2026	4,044	148	17	7	27	4.25%
Oct 12, 2026	109,800	5,136	544	330	628	5.47%
Oct 9, 2026	7,561	240	14	6	40	3.44%
Oct 9, 2026	24,100	2,146	52	60	275	9.37%
Oct 3, 2026	1,343	120	2	3	16	9.31%
Oct 2, 2026	677	27	1	0	2	4.14%
Oct 1, 2026	220,200	34,800	1,040	1,751	3,130	17.07%
Sep 30, 2026	2,540	79	4	5	3	3.46%
Sep 30, 2026	566,200	105,400	2,533	3,221	6,352	19.63%
Sep 30, 2026	4,333	272	9	8	23	6.67%
Sep 30, 2026	4,162	218	7	58	30	6.80%
Sep 29, 2026	2,321	53	3	18	5	3.19%
Sep 29, 2026	61,900	2,603	104	78	299	4.50%
Sep 29, 2026	24,700	2,801	98	333	352	13.09%
Jul 2, 2026	48,800	1,520	71	74	323	3.41%
Mar 26, 2026	14,300	885	16	70	100	6.79%
Apr 7, 2025	1,200,000	59,900	3,982	2,605	4,527	5.54%