A brazen foray into the Barents yields predictable Cold War-type friction
Tangling with the Russian bear above, and especially under, the seas does not comport with U.S. national security interests.
Lyle J. Goldstein is a research professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) at the U.S. Naval War College. The founding director of CMSI and author of dozens of articles on Chinese security policy, he focuses on Chinese undersea warfare. On the broader subject of U.S.-China relations, Goldstein published the book Meeting China Halfway in 2015. Over the last several years, Goldstein has focused on the North Korea crisis. Goldstein speaks Russian as well as Chinese and is an affiliate of Naval War College’s new Russia Maritime Studies Institute.
Tangling with the Russian bear above, and especially under, the seas does not comport with U.S. national security interests.
Former Trump national security adviser HR McMaster’s essay calling for the U.S. to take a more confrontational stance on China falls flat.
Military, diplomatic, historical, and environmental imperatives dictate that the U.S. disengage militarily from the volatile Taiwan issue. Washington should instead focus on facilitating a compromise.
There was big news out of the Philippines this week that in normal times would have sparked loud complaints from the DC foreign policy establishment.