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Asia-Pacific

The Quad Summit report card: ‘Meh’

Interestingly, the only significant progress was in security, not in the many non-military projects the four countries are supposedly focused on.

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Asia-Pacific

Biden's overseas summit cancellations aren't a big deal

Claims from many in Washington about the debt ceiling crisis impeding the president's foreign policy are a bit of an overreaction.

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Asia-Pacific

Blinken China policy speech: Nothing new to see here

The Secretary's remarks were a rehash of old statements and the usual mixed messages about US competition with Beijing.

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Asia-Pacific

Quad Summit: US China-Containment strategy slowly gelling

Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it's essentially a security bloc by stealth.

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Asia-Pacific

ASEAN’s new math: Washington should think addition, not subtraction

Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.

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Asia-Pacific

Quad meeting was more of the same, with added Ukraine drama

Internal rifts and a do-nothing record have become a hallmark of this US-Japan-India-Australia grouping.