How the US and China can stop their brewing arms race
Both sides can start to build trust and avoid repeating the mistakes from the onset of the Cold War.
Both sides can start to build trust and avoid repeating the mistakes from the onset of the Cold War.
Much of its success is driven by a lack of dependence on anyone, but now it must balance war and great power jockeying in the region.
The long-awaited Global Force Posture review shows that status quo is the key refrain as the China song remains the same.
Conclusions from a federal commission’s annual brief to Congress buried its more nuanced findings.
The idea that China is planning an invasion of the island is one that demands closer scrutiny.
At least he is consistent. Biden’s policy may be unclear, but the former National Security Adviser offers nothing to fill the gap.
But the training and military cooperation with other countries in the region is certainly picking up.
There won’t be any more “great powers” if we don’t get a grip on the coming global crisis, which makes us all insecure.
There were few tangible outcomes, but efforts to tamp down tensions made this first face-to-face worth it.
Biden’s National Security adviser doesn’t want to talk about AUKUS in any terms that might suggest a military alliance — which it is.
Tensions are reaching a fever pitch, but there seems to be interest on both sides in ratcheting it down. The question is, can they?
Beijing built a base for some of their nuclear weapons we already knew about and apparently that’s a big scoop.
President Biden chastised Beijing for not showing up to COP26 but the US record is far from exemplary.
Washington shouldn’t be surprised, after years of building and leading security bulwarks against both countries.
In wide ranging talk, the former Liberal Party leader said the world’s democracies need to do more to defend Taiwan.
Both the United States and ASEAN need to find ways to temper the intensifying security competition in Asia.
At some point we have to demand more of our friends expecting military aid and support. That’s not mean, it’s just common sense.
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.