We should scrap the Pentagon’s new anti-China slush fund
Biden’s budget request for the newly created Pacific Deterrence Initiative would fund boondoggles while spending little on diplomacy.
Biden’s budget request for the newly created Pacific Deterrence Initiative would fund boondoggles while spending little on diplomacy.
Rules are by definition things that apply universally, so it’s hard to convince the world to respect them if you consistently violate them.
Each time they lash out aggressively or pick fights they do the hawks’ bidding, making it easier to stoke resistance and anti-Beijing sentiment.
The country has long viewed its ties to China as a strategic partnership, but recently it seems to be exploring a more independent course.
An obscure decade-old law has allowed the new-cold war mindset to migrate to zero gravity.
Reporting on potential membership of the SCO further counters the Western narrative that Iran is internationally isolated.
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Conflict between the United States and China is both undesirable and imprudent, but appears inevitable given our current leadership.
Many of the countries now lumped under this made-up rubric are wary of being drawn into a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China.
Aircraft carriers are expensive and ultimately of limited value in any potential great power conflict.
Biden’s new course should run parallel to geopolitical competition.
The president is bringing good — and bad — ideas for drawing partners into his East Asia policy in his suitcase. Will the right ones prevail?
To avoid conflict, credible deterrence must be paired with reassurance that the US won’t push for Taipei’s independence.
The secretary of state dismissed an idea from Rep. Ted Lieu that we should help “allies first,” and took a jab at China.
A narrower diplomatic protest may be appropriate, but it’s not likely to compel real policy changes in Beijing.
Aside from the contradictions and hypocrisies, it’s not worth alienating Russia and China, with whom the US must cooperate.
To hold its own with China, the United States must renew its competitive capacity and build a demonstrably better governed society.
It’s possible to imagine a future where nations fight over the earth’s critical minerals, just as they once fought over oil. Or maybe not.
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to hoard resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.
The Strategic Competition Act purports to oppose anti-Asian racism but its provisions would actually contribute to it.
Beijing downplays the US-led initiative but reacts sharply to its possible expansion.