America’s Pivot To Asia 2.0
As long as Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) lacks clear incentives, it will be hard to transform it into meaningful action. Read More Here
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Why China Is Paranoid About The Quad
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
Threading The Needle In Southeast Asia
After years of their relative neglect under former U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States is once more seeking to strengthen its ties with the governments of Southeast Asia. Read More Here
Short Of War
Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase in the 2020s. Read More Here
The Echoes Of America’s Hypocrisy Abroad
Few in the United States spend much time nowadays ruminating over their country’s role in backing ruinous regimes like these across what was once fancied as the Third World. And even among those who recall, much is misremembered. Read More Here
The War In Ukraine Reveals How Economic Dependency Kills
The terrible war that is raging at NATO’s eastern gates for the sovereign state of Ukraine has shed light on what could happen when countries develop a high degree of dependency on another country. Read More Here
What Biden needs to get if MBS wants to reconcile
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 Return Of Statecraft
International politics had clearly entered a new era, one in which the old forms of predatory state behavior had returned, and the putative global hegemon proved unable to stop it. The colossus could not get its way. Read More Here
US, China Race To Militarize The Metaverse
In yet another realm of US-China rivalry, both superpowers are treating the emerging metaverse as a contested military domain. The metaverse is a digital, parallel world created thanks to developments in the internet, virtual reality, networking technologies and augmented reality. Read More Here
How Beijing Sees Biden
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
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