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.
The Secretary’s remarks were a rehash of old statements and the usual mixed messages about US competition with Beijing.
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
New Delhi will continue to resist falling in line with Washington, potentially thwarting American strategies of neo-primacy.
There is more risk than reward in the new U.S.-backed security architecture evolving in the region
Any optimism for a stable relationship has been all but buried with nationalist ambitions and competing security frameworks.
But unlike AUKUS, the US-Japan-Australia-India compact has a narrow path to emerge as a constructive actor in Asia.
The ever-denser web of military interconnections that Washington is weaving is going to lead straight to Cold War.
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.
Beijing downplays the US-led initiative but reacts sharply to its possible expansion.