The New Age Of Nuclear Diplomacy
What arms control ideas might be useful to explore? There are a number of other ideas not suggested by any of the disarmament advocates that could be quite useful in improving strategic stability. Read More Here
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Putin, After Spending The Day With Joe Biden: “There Is No Happiness In Life”
About the only thing Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin agreed on as they headed into a high-stakes summit Wednesday was that the relationship between the United States and Russia is at a low point. After close to four hours of talks at a Geneva chalet, that doesn’t appear to have changed. “There is no happiness in life,” Putin said somewhat cryptically […]
Post-US civil War Drums Beating Fast In Afghanistan
As US and NATO forces withdraw faster than previously planned from Afghanistan, violence is escalating in what could be a foretaste of a wider war to come. Many believe the Taliban aims to exploit the vacuum left by the US-NATO troop withdrawal to seize control of the capital Kabul and re-establish an Islamic Emirate, similar […]
What To Look For At The Biden-Putin Summit
Can the two presidents find a pragmatic way to manage competition while avoiding past pitfalls? What signs should we look for at the summit that might provide clues about how this critical relationship between the world’s foremost nuclear powers might develop? Read More Here
The Clash Of Systems?
The Biden administration is correct to emphasize the challenges facing democracy around the world, but the more immediate threat to the United States and other democracies lies within, not without. At present, the dangers of conceiving of U.S.-Chinese competition as a global contest between democratic and autocratic systems outweigh the benefits. Read More Here
Biden Urges G-7 Leaders To Call Out And Compete With China
Leaders of the world’s largest economies unveiled an infrastructure plan Saturday for the developing world to compete with China’s global initiatives, but they were searching for a consensus on how to forcefully to call out Beijing over human rights abuses. Read More Here
Who Will Write The Next “Long Telegram?”
How can America cope with a rampant China when her own leaders do not believe that the country is worth defending? If they will not stand for a nation grounded in the universal principles of human dignity and individual freedom — and the one nation in history to offer a helping hand to all the […]
China Is The Elephant In The Room At G-7
Joe Biden arrived in Europe this week with a very different image than that of his preening predecessor, Donald Trump, but there’s one big issue on which — rhetoric aside — the two men are aligned: the China challenge. Over the coming week of summits, however, Biden will have a tough sell to get Europe […]
The G7 Tax Clampdown And The End Of Hyper-Globalization
The G7 agreement on taxation of global corporations still needs formal approval from a wider set of countries, and there remain many details to be worked out for it to be effective. Nonetheless, it would not be farfetched to describe the deal as historic. Read More Here
China’s Hold On Cambodia Hard For Biden To Break
By allowing Beijing more control over the strategically situated naval base, which could provide China a new southern flank in the contested South China Sea, the US perceives Phnom Penh is dangerously close to adopting a full-fledged pro-China foreign policy. Read More Here
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