Xi, Putin, and the irony of Biden’s war on autocracies
Cooperation between Russia and China is conceptually — and historically — shallow. So why are we working to make it deeper?
Cooperation between Russia and China is conceptually — and historically — shallow. So why are we working to make it deeper?
It’s time to talk about what we can learn from NATO in Eastern Europe and its lessons for U.S. policy towards China.
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
Washington thinks it gains a partner against China, but the new president has pledged to carry on the cruel rule of Duterte. Is it worth it?
President Yoon Suk-yeol campaigned as a hawk, but domestic constraints and economic considerations are now coming into play.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
To prevent military conflict, Washington must provide reassurances to Beijing while strengthening allied deterrence.
The Global South is not intimidated and has increasingly refused to ally with the West on sanctions and condemnations.
Reorganizing global trade and markets based on security interests and ‘values’ could have significant costs
But instead of threats of retaliation, Washington must end strategy of coercion and become more competitive economically.
The speed at which Washington officials rushed to the Solomon Islands after news of a Chinese security pact is all you need to know.
There are renewed concerns that Beijing is moving to an “offensive” posture after reports of 100 new missile silos in Gansu province.
Amid the war in Ukraine, Europe has shown more willingness to provide for its own defense and the Biden team should encourage it.
The US-Australia-UK pact seems determined to pursue great power competition at the risk of real conflict.
The US should learn lessons from the Cold War when economic embargoes left it increasingly isolated.
A big-tech/arms makers coalition is hyping the threat from Russia and China to stave off government regulation, and more.
It appears that Beijing and Moscow’s recently declared ‘no limits’ partnership has a few limits.
The conservative Yoon Suk-yeol will take a harder line on North Korea and China. This might be harder — and more dangerous — than it sounds.
His analysis of Beijing’s threat is crude and reductionist and blames the country for all of America’s internal ills.
Instead it should be encouraging Beijing — through incentives, not punishments — to reduce its lean toward Russia.
The leader of the country’s largest opposition party shared his views on Russia, Ukraine, and the threat of nuclear war.