For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...

As reported by several major news outlets, for months after Trump’s January inauguration, internal debate pitted long-time advocates of regime change—led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio—against ...

MARC LYNCH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and the author of America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region. The regional order of the ...

Economic relations between the two countries are more fraught than ever: in early October, for the second time in just six months, the United States and China launched a trade war, imposing ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

The best way to reverse this dynamic and achieve a substantial reduction in military activities around Taiwan is for both Washington and Beijing to show greater respect for each other’s core positions ...

But for most of its 16-year history, the BRICS has not positioned itself in opposition to the United States and its allies. Several BRICS members have even been close U.S. partners. Washington has ...

MARVIN PARK is Senior Vice President at American Global Strategies. He served as Director for Taiwan Affairs on the National Security Council from 2023 to 2024 and as U.S. Naval Attaché at the ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

According to this logic, African countries would be more likely to attract investment and trade opportunities in a system less concerned about issues of democracy and good governance. But Trump’s ...

Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He was Director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 to 2023 and previously served as a member of the Senior Analytic Service in the ...

AUKUS has become emblematic of the U.S.-Australian alliance as a whole, and it is now at risk of being weighed down by unfulfilled expectations on both sides. Whereas Australia wants constant ...