Oct 13, 2015

Michael Auslin has called for a “new realism” in U.S. foreign policy toward China in these pages, one that “begins with an official acceptance that we are locked in a competition with China that is of Beijing’s choosing.” Moreover he suggests that Sino-U.S. dialogue must be “reset” and “conducted not as an unearned gift to Beijing, but only when there are concrete goals to be achieved.”

Jun 19, 2015

In his article “Taiwan Can’t Save the South China Sea,” Michal Thim unfortunately doesn’t seem to grasp the true essence of both the East and South China Se

Jun 18, 2015

China’s large-scale construction of artificial islands in the hotly disputed waters of the South China Sea has led many in Washington to call for a tougher sta

Jun 10, 2015

China’s recent release of its first strategic white paper signals its official emergence as a maritime—and therefore global—power. Little in the document sho

Jun 05, 2015

Consider the Trans-Pacific Partnership as an economic hard power weapon. The TPP can’t deal out death like the US 7th Fleet. But a lot of the language used abo

Jun 05, 2015

In the last several months, China has set an expansionist and escalatory strategy into motion in the South China Sea. The embattled region has long played host

Jun 03, 2015

With the conclusion of his three-nation tour of China, Mongolia and South Korea last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi capped a frenetic first year of diploma

Jun 03, 2015

The Asian security dialogue is about verbal jabs and thought balloons. And policy signaling and point scoring. And, ideally, some meeting of minds, reaching tow

Jun 02, 2015

China’s White Paper on Military Strategy published by China’s State Council on Tuesday formalizes the evolution of China’s naval strategy from “offshore wat

May 27, 2015

For decades, Chinese leaders have followed Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of “hiding one’s capacities and biding one’s time.” Since Xi Jinping came to power, how