Why is Taiwan only spending 2.1 percent of its GDP on its defense?
Americans shouldn’t have to defend countries that aren’t themselves willing to pay the ultimate price.
Americans shouldn’t have to defend countries that aren’t themselves willing to pay the ultimate price.
Rahm Emanuel and Nicholas Burns had an opportunity to rein in Congress’s thirst for conflict with Beijing, but they took the bait instead.
It could mean all the destructive things created by the War on
Terror — increased by several orders of magnitude.
Many in Washington are overhyping a recent advanced Chinese missile test as a ‘Sputnik moment,’ but the move was entirely predictable.
Only when China and the United States elevate the threat of climate change above their geopolitical rivalry will it be possible to avert disaster.
American withdrawal, coupled with the need to diversify Gulf state economies away from oil, is driving efforts to dial down regional tensions.
Rep. Elaine Luria’s proposal pre-authorizing Biden to defend Taiwan if China invades has its roots in American exceptionalism.
The Democratic congresswoman supports legislation allowing the president to bypass Congress to defend Taiwan.
Growing conventional wisdom in Washington says that Beijing is preparing to attack the island. Not so fast.
The announcement comes with a US pledge to engage in ‘a new, holistic, and pragmatic approach’ to Beijing’s trade practices.
UPDATE: Fumio Kishida, officially elected prime minister today in a parliamentary vote, may seek more independence from Washington.
But unlike AUKUS, the US-Japan-Australia-India compact has a narrow path to emerge as a constructive actor in Asia.
Rather than focus on the military, the EU should use its economic power to avoid getting sucked into a U.S.-led cold war with China.
U.S.-China tensions are fueling racism here at home.
The realist author says we just need to check China’s hegemony. But that bag carries too many explosives to be considered responsible.
It’s called institutionalizing hubris, and it’s taking U.S. global foreign policy nowhere fast.
The president says he doesn’t want ‘a world divided into rigid blocs’ while at the same time dividing the world into rigid blocs.
The prospect of new extremist threats pouring into or igniting within these states or just over the border is a real security issue.
The move will only reinforce Beijing’s siege mentality and increase regional tensions.
The ever-denser web of military interconnections that Washington is weaving is going to lead straight to Cold War.
Going from ‘TECRO’ to the ‘Taiwan Representative Office’ may have a potentially explosive impact when it comes to US-China relations.