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As this new year begins, it’s obvious that America is facing many challenges—some old, some new. And they most certainly cannot be taken lightly. ...
Continue ReadingAs this new year begins, it’s obvious that America is facing many challenges—some old, some new. And they most certainly cannot be taken lightly. ...
Continue ReadingAlthough it is one of the US military’s highest priorities, service and industry leaders remain confused about Joint All-Domain Command and Control,...
Continue ReadingThe Trump era is ending and not a moment too soon. Donald J. Trump tarnished the US image abroad, mishandled the pandemic, and incited an insurrection...
Continue ReadingIn one of his last acts as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning eight Chinese software applications, including Alipay, the world...
Continue ReadingModern Asian history may be the most important subject that most educated Americans know almost nothing about. With the center of gravity of world pol...
Continue ReadingSometime this past Summer, Eric Isaacs, president of the Carnegie Institution for Science, issued a formal apology for his organization’s role in the ...
Continue ReadingU.S. Navy surface warriors meeting virtually this week are focused on improving the fleet’s training, maintenance, and leadership—worthy topics during...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Charles Payne on Fox Business, Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses the future of U.S.-China policy under the Biden administration. ...
Watch NowSecretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement last week that he’s lifting restrictions on meetings between U.S. and Taiwanese officials will enrag...
Continue ReadingScholars, pundits and progressives widely despise the Electoral College. They think it antiquated, irrational and undemocratic and argue for scrapping...
Continue ReadingAmicus curiae Adam Mossoff is a law professor who teaches and writes about patent law and policy. He specializes in patent licensing and standard esse...
Continue ReadingWhat a heart-wrenching day for our nation. The live videos of the hordes of Americans flooding the US Capitol were literally nauseating. ...
Continue ReadingAs we travel down the rabbit hole that is Tim Weiner’s The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020, let us begin at the ...
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Continue ReadingIn a podcast interview with Vago Muradian on Defense and Aerospace Report, Patrick Cronin discusses U.S. -China relations, recent trade deals with Eur...
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Continue ReadingOutgoing President of the European Commission and German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a lesson in realpolitik to President-elect Joe Biden just ...
Continue ReadingForty-eight years after the U.K. entered what would become the European Union and more than four years after voters shocked David Cameron’s gove...
Continue ReadingOn December 16, the US District Court in the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment against a Kenyan member of al Shabaab, the Somalia-b...
Continue ReadingConsider the parties you didn’t have this holiday season merely postponed. So advise economists at Goldman Sachs. They reckon that economic growth w...
Continue ReadingMore than any other president in recent memory, President Trump defended American innovators against attacks by foreign governments. But sadly, in one...
Continue ReadingIn an interview on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe, Brendan Brown discusses his new book, “Europe’s Century of Crisis Under Dollar Hegemony” ...
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Continue ReadingThe year 2020 will be remembered as a time of major inflection points, including the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. election. More obscure to most ...
Continue ReadingAfter a year punctuated by mishaps, readiness shortfalls, and a lack of future vision, U.S. Navy leaders are hoping a flurry of activity during the...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Nirmala Ganapathy on The Straits Times, Aparna Pande discusses India’s farmer protests and the ramification they could have abroa...
Watch NowThe tabletop exercise (TTX) was held using WEBEX on November 20, 2020, and was a follow up to the TTX 2019. The main topic for all the delegations was...
Continue ReadingAlthough China’s ties with South Asia are longstanding, Xi Jinping increasingly is looking westward to promote its economic and national security ob...
Continue ReadingThe Bible is America’s best-selling book, annually outpacing the top 20 best sellers combined. Yet a single Chinese company has a near monopoly on B...
Continue ReadingChristmas is coming and so, in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest Islamic militias is mobilizing. Its members are usually young and fit, dress in...
Continue ReadingWith the European Parliament threatening to block an investment deal with China over persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, the shock waves released by B...
Continue ReadingMissile threats from rogue nations have increased over the last few years, and the new administration will inherit plans for bolstering homeland defen...
Continue ReadingThe U.S. government at the federal, state, and local levels is using Chinese drones that the Chinese Communist Party is exploiting for espionage. That...
Continue ReadingThank you, Co-Chairmen Smith and McGovern, for holding this important and timely hearing. On December 7, the United States made a significant policy s...
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden promised during his election campaign to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires in February, ...
Continue ReadingDespite creating the U.S. Space Force and Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration failed to back U.S. expertise, so millions of Americans suffe...
Continue ReadingIt is not often that an intra-university dispute on whether to ask for toleration rather than respect gets international press coverage. But such has ...
Continue ReadingOriginally published in Italian in Aspenia 91, Aspen Institute Italia, December 2020, with the title “La tentazione autarchica dell politica industria...
Continue ReadingChina has embarked on a grand journey west. Officials in Beijing are driven by aspirations of leadership across their home continent of Asia, feelings...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Jeff King on Into the Deep Podcast, Samuel Tadros discusses Egypt’s Christian history and the relationship between the Muslim Bro...
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Continue ReadingClimate change, says President-elect Joe Biden, is “the number one issue facing humanity. And it’s the number one issue for me. Unchecked it’s g...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses China’s attempts to buy its way into democratic countries. ...
Watch NowThis year, protesters from Minneapolis to Minsk demanded action from their governments. In the United States, demonstrations spurred change in crimina...
Continue ReadingCritics are already attacking the incoming Biden administration, raking it for sending mixed signals on China. The Biden Team is playing a sort of goo...
Continue ReadingIn a webinar for the Naval Historical Foundation, Seth Cropsey discusses Naval Sea Power and contemporary strategy. ...
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Continue ReadingIn a panel discussion for Asia Society, Aparna Pande discusses India’s role in the US-China rivalry. ...
Watch NowIn a web event for the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy & Strategy and the Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, Douglas Feith discu...
Watch NowIn an interview on Fox News, Michael Pillsbury discusses the Biden transition’s treatment of China’s threat to the US. ...
Watch NowPresident-elect Joe Biden will enter office at a crucial time for the U.S. military. After decades of focusing on minor powers and substate actors, th...
Continue ReadingThe Chinese Communist Party is suppressing real information about COVID-19 and punishing people and countries that demand to know the truth. American...
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Continue ReadingIt was one of those forgettably historic moments at the United Nations. The year was 2015, the UN’s 70th anniversary, and China’s President Xi Jin...
Continue ReadingOn December 7, 2020, the US House of Representatives by a vote of 386-3 passed House Resolution 512, which calls for the worldwide repeal of blasphemy...
Continue ReadingOne hundred years after the U.S. Senate humiliated President Woodrow Wilson by rejecting the Treaty of Versailles, Princeton University, which Wilson ...
Continue ReadingNearly at the end of 2020—a year when bad news seemed to be relentless and unstoppable—a good report has emerged. Very good news, in fact. At long las...
Continue ReadingPast prime ministers and foreign ministers, academics, businesspeople and journalists are critical of the government’s handling of our relationship ...
Continue ReadingWhen Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2008, he said he hoped future generations would look back and say, “This w...
Continue ReadingThe conventional wisdom these days is that U.S. policy on China will not change when President-elect Joe Biden replaces President Donald Trump. The po...
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration will immediately face serious foreign policy challenges, especially in the western Pacific where China’s provocations have ...
Continue ReadingFollowing is the full transcript of the December 3rd, 2020 Hudson event titled A Conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
Continue ReadingCongress is considering whether to amend the Federal Trade Commission’s authority under Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The answe...
Continue ReadingPerhaps no aspect of American foreign policy generates more heat and less light than its relationship with Israel. Even before its founding, the idea ...
Continue ReadingAs with most of the world, Indonesian politics has been consumed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this has been partially upstaged and then ...
Continue ReadingOn Friday, November 27, a jihadi attack took place against Christians in Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands. This vicious attack resulted ...
Continue ReadingIn an interview on Fox and Friends, Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses he China threat as well as new evidence about China’s mishandling of the coronaviru...
Watch NowIn a podcast interview with Vago Muradian on Defense and Aerospace Report, Bryan Clark discusses Net Assessment in DoD and on-going work on electromag...
Listen NowAfter President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, some public figures, including Democratic Rep. T...
Continue ReadingThe food industry has had an easy time during the Trump administration, which demonstrated no appetite to regulate unhealthy foods, "rolled back()":ht...
Continue ReadingAs European diplomats haggled over the threatened Polish and Hungarian vetoes that could block the Covid bailout plan so laboriously negotiated earlie...
Continue ReadingThe president of Turkey is worried about the psychological health of the president of France. “Macron needs some sort of mental treatment,” Recep ...
Continue ReadingCome January, president elect "Joe Biden()":https://www.newsweek.com/topic/joe-biden will have to make good on his promise to compete with China in a ...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with ELNET Germany, Peter Rough discusses the impact of a change from a Trump-led administration to a Biden-led information on the rel...
Watch NowIndians elated by projections of a post-COVID-19 economic recovery must remember that these projections are predicated on India maintaining an...
Continue ReadingIn a panel event for the East Asia Institute, Patrick Cronin discusses the future of the US-Korea alliance. ...
Continue ReadingSince the 1789 adoption in Philadelphia of the Constitution that established the form of government of the United States of America, this country has ...
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Carline Hepker and Roger Hearing on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe, Brendan Brown discusses company indebtedness in China. ...
Listen NowDistinguished observers—such as former Congressman Frank Wolf; Gregory Stanton, founder and president of Genocide Watch; Lord Alton of the House of ...
Continue ReadingThe architects of India’s foreign policy have long preferred a multipolar world. They believe that India, with its limited economic and military capab...
Continue ReadingThe news that President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state and to appoint Jake Sullivan as national security...
Continue ReadingIn a podcast interview on “Uncle, Please Sit,” Aparna Pande discusses her new book, "Making India Great - The Promise Of A Reluctant Global Power.”...
Listen NowElections have consequences, and at the end of the day I won,” Barack Obama informed Republicans shortly after his first inauguration. Indeed. The e...
Continue ReadingLast month, on 16 October, an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, Abdullakh Anzorov, shocked the world by beheading the French teacher, Samuel Pa...
Continue ReadingThe U.S. election didn’t produce a blue wave or a red wave, but some are celebrating a green wave as voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey a...
Continue ReadingJoe Biden says he’ll take the U.S. back into the World Health Organization on his first day in office, reversing the withdrawal President Trump bega...
Continue ReadingIn a podcast interview on POLITICO’s Global Translations, Tom Duesterberg discusses the critical mineral supply chain. ...
Listen NowHong Kong is a dual test of the incoming Biden administration’s revised approach to China and the elevation of human rights and democracy. ...
Continue ReadingIn a panel discussion for AICGS, Tom Duesterberg discusses the domestic and foreign economic policies that the Biden administration is likely to pursu...
Watch NowIn a podcast interview with Vago Muradian on the Defense and Aerospace Report, Patrick Cronin discusses the economic and security implications of the ...
Listen NowJoe Biden is entering the White House promising to repair the enormous damage he believes his predecessor has caused. With respect to foreign policy, ...
Continue ReadingOn November 10, Al Jazeera posted a breathtaking headline: “ISIS-linked attackers behead 50 people in northern Mozambique.”The subhead was equally hor...
Continue ReadingAzerbaijan and Armenia may have signed a peace deal, but a new conflict is brewing in Ethiopia that is potentially more devastating, strategically con...
Continue ReadingIn a panel discussion for the Navy League, Tim Walton discusses the Jones Act and its impact on national security. ...
Watch NowIn the wake of this heated election, every patriotic public figure must commit to restoring trust in our electoral system. That includes President Tru...
Continue ReadingBoth the US State Department’s Global Engagement Center and the EU’s External Action Service have identified a myriad of stories in pro-Kremlin me...
Continue ReadingDespite ongoing legal battles, "it’s becoming increasingly likely that former Vice President Joe Biden will win()":https://www.wsj.com/articles/this...
Continue ReadingIn a podcast on Deutschlandfunk NOVA (German NPR), Peter Rough talks about American society. ...
Listen NowCould cooperation between Joe Biden and Mitchell McConnell enable a $2trn post-Trump infrastructure programme? ...
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