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The State of U.S.-China Competition
"My way of learning," quips legendary film noir detective Sam Spade, "is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into [...]
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Three Reasons Why China Isn’t Imperial Germany (It’s Tougher)
Last week the wise and all-powerful Harvard professor Joe Nye decreed that "China Is Not Imperial Germany." I seldom take [...]
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Gwadar and the “String of Pearls”
This week the not-so-unexpected news broke that Overseas Port Holdings Ltd., a Chinese state-run enterprise, has taken over management of [...]
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The Top 5 Navies of the Indo-Pacific
Who’s No. 1? Rather than rank Asian navies by tiresome (if essential) bean-counting measures, why not rank them by the [...]
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Red Star Over the Atlantic?
Writing at World Politics Review, my NWC colleague Nikolas Gvosdev urges the United States to think ahead in case China [...]
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One Landing Does Not Make a Carrier
Last Sunday China’s leadership announced that a J-15 tactical jet had landed on the Liaoning, the refitted Soviet aircraft carrier [...]
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A Clash of Civilizations on the High Seas
(Editor's Note: Our Naval Diplomat, James Holmes, continues to share his experiences at Duke University. The following is a question [...]
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What To Fear: China’s Strength or Weakness?
To follow up on yesterday’s dispatch from Durham, North Carolina, here’s the second question put to the panelists this week: [...]
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The Naval Diplomat’s Excellent Adventure: Duke University
This week I was summoned home to God’s country, the American South, for a China panel at Duke University. My [...]
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Run Silent, Run ‘Soviet?’
A few years ago I had the pleasure of hoisting a pint with Rear Admiral Sumihiko Kawamura, a retired commander [...]
