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China lion
Asia-Pacific

Taiwan shouldn't become the thorn we use to provoke China

There is a reason US strategic ambiguity has worked for 40 years

Donald Trump Lee Jae Myung
Asia-Pacific

South Korea isn't crazy about US-led anti-China bloc

Leaders there, and the public, remain deeply wary of supporting American military operations beyond the peninsula — especially over Taiwan

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi
Asia-Pacific

Takaichi 101: How to torpedo relations with China in a month

The brand new Japanese prime minister set off a firestorm by implying war with China if Beijing attacked Taiwan

Trump ASEAN
Asia-Pacific

‘America First’ meets ‘ASEAN Way’ in Kuala Lumpur

Trump announces largely one-way trade deals with Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and also takes credit for another peace agreement.

Sanae Takaichi, Xi Jinping
Asia-Pacific

First female Japan PM takes hawkish position on China, Taiwan

LDP leader Sanae Takaichi could use a primer on deterrence and the best way to help defend Taiwan without provoking a war

Hiroshima
Global Crises

Symposium: Why was Japan the only nuclear holocaust in 80 yrs?

On the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki we ask 17 experts whether 'deterrence' is the real legacy. Or not.