China has the highest level of self-sufficiency in weapons production in the Indo-Pacific region, with second-placed Japan not even close, according to a research report released this month. Read More Here
This was General Bajwa’s last trip to Washington before his six-year term as military chief ends in November. Read More Here
The best method to strengthen and secure the supply chain is a coordinated approach with allies and partners that avoids completely excluding China, so long as it refrains from destabilising behaviours such as invading Taiwan. Read More Here
US ‘friendshoring’ and Chips 4 alliance may or may not lure region’s semiconductor heavies to Washington’s side. Read More Here
Victory in Ukraine could easily mean hubris in Washington, and that could be dangerous. Read More Here
The United States must increase Putin’s costs in Ukraine while keeping the door open for a political settlement that serves our long-term global interests of stability and security. Read More Here
China leads the United States in 5G, commercial drones, offensive hypersonic weapons, and lithium-battery production,” the report said, while the U.S. is ahead in biotech, quantum computing, cloud computing, commercial space technologies, and has a small lead in artificial intelligence. Read More Here
It is a perilous race between the United States and China for dominance of the global technological and security commons. Read More Here
For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell. Read More Here
Although the term “fifth column” wasn’t coined until the 1930s, the practice of identifying and targeting such threats is a far older phenomenon and arguably predates the nation-state. Read More Here
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