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
December 24, 2025
There is a reason US strategic ambiguity has worked for 40 years
For all its defects, the new National Security Strategy is an ice-breaker, and opens up policy space not seen in 40, 50 or perhaps 60 years.
Short-term political alignments with so-called 'champions' may erode long-term influence
NSS is actually more realist about the US role going forward than critics want to admit
Leaders are lamenting the loss of 'vicarious primacy' when they could be taking strategic autonomy more seriously
The president's new hemispheric strategy revives interventionist logic while ignoring the region's urgent need for infrastructure and economic diversification
