As he concludes his debut tour of Asia, President Joe Biden is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to send an unmistakable message to China: a similar breach of international order would generate a fierce US response. Read More Here
Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression. Read More Here
Although China has rarely seen India as a peer competitor, Beijing is acutely conscious that India could create significant problems for China if aligned against it with other powers. Keeping India—a potential superpower—from aligning with the United States is thus a first-order strategic goal for Beijing. Read More Here
Chinese President Xi Jinping has picked a border fight that he cannot win, and transformed a previously conciliatory India into a long-term foe. This amounts to an even bigger miscalculation than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to see it coming. Read More Here
The severe tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia didn’t happen overnight; nor will they be somehow magically addressed by the sugar high the Donald Trump administration created by coddling MBS. Read More Here
The United States’ primary security interest in Ukraine is a stable relationship with Russia, but you would not know it based on U.S. foreign policy. As John Mearsheimer has argued, the United States has pursued a revisionist policy “to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border.” Read More Here
For decades, Chinese leaders thought they knew the man who would become America’s 46th president. But he was changing all along. Read More Here
From a strategic standpoint today, decision-makers in New Delhi believe that they can ill afford to alienate Russia because they count on Moscow to veto any adverse United Nations Security Council resolution on the fraught question of the disputed region of Kashmir. Read More Here
The right China strategy for the United States depends on the correct assessment of Beijing’s strategic ambitions and its options to achieve them. Read More Here
In little more than a month, Russian President Vladimir Putin has resurrected the threat of territorial conquest and nuclear war, jolted Western Europe awake from its long postwar torpor, and put the capstone on two decades of U.S. misdirection by defying American power and influence. Read More Here
