What Do US Indo-Pacific Allies Think of the Biden-Xi Summit?
Views from Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan. Read More Here
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Don’t be fooled by Biden and Xi talks
China and the US are enduring rivals, not engaged partners, and that won’t change any time soon. Read More Here Also Read: Summing Up the Biden-Xi Summit
Can a Summit Ease U.S.-China Tensions?
Officials in the Joe Biden administration have visited China four times over the past few months, but nothing concrete seems to have come of their efforts. Can next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit really make a difference? Read More Here Also Read: What Xi should say over dinner with US CEOs
The Real Washington Consensus
Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy. Read More Here
Can the Australia-US Alliance Overcome Fraught Politics in Washington?
Biden and Albanese might be in lockstep, but actualizing AUKUS requires U.S. congressional support that cannot be guaranteed, even at this high point of Australia-U.S. relations. Read More Here
What America Wants From China
Preserving a functioning global system that includes China will not be simple or straightforward. Washington has grown increasingly ambivalent in recent years about upholding the existing system, which it played an outsize role in designing. Read More Here
The Scrambled Spectrum of U.S. Foreign-Policy Thinking
Presidents, officials, and candidates tend to fall into six camps that don’t follow party lines. Read More Here
The World Can No Longer Sideline the Israeli-Palestinian Issue. But the U.S. Doesn’t Have to Be the Only Broker.
For years, the U.S. pushed the issue to the sidelines in foreign policy. Insiders say it needs to take center stage again, and there might be a better way to do it this time. Read More Here Also Read: Hamas Has Fractured the Arab World
There Is No Consensus on American Decline in Beijing
It is inaccurate – and dangerous – to assume that Chinese policy elites broadly perceive the U.S. to be in perpetual decline. Read More Here
What Russia Really Wants
Russia’s quest for autonomy offers the United States potential leverage—and a potential edge in its competition with China. Read More Here
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