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US Challenges China’s Nine-Dash Line Claim
By Zachary Keck
In a clear policy shift, Washington is now challenging the basis of China’s claim to most of the South China Sea.
US Asia Policy: Straight From the 1930s
By Zachary Keck
U.S. policy to China today closely resembles the policy it pursed toward Japan… before Pearl Harbor
Stephen Walt is Not Obama’s George Kennan
By Zachary Keck
Commonsense and U.S. precedent are the architects of Obama’s Middle East foreign policy.
Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing
By James R. Holmes
With America facing fiscal constraints, are lawmakers are absentmindedly adopting offshore balancing?
Will Hypersonic Capabilities Render Missile Defense Obsolete?
By Zachary Keck
Despite billions of dollars & decades of work, missile defense has produced few results. The future looks equally bleak.
Will Asia Ignite a Second Arab Spring?
By Zachary Keck
Asia’s economic slowdown threatens to disrupt the Persian Gulf monarchies that were able to weather the Arab Spring.
Why Isn’t China’s Military More Transparent?
By Zachary Keck
A number of widely different reasons potentially explain why China shrouds its military modernization in secrecy.
Time: Air Power’s Great Nemesis
By James R. Holmes
Cumulative strategic bombing campaigns are rarely strategically decisive in themselves.
The US and China Are Right to Distrust Each Other
By Zachary Keck
Trust is a rare commodity in international politics, and Beijing and Washington aren’t likely to be an exception.
“Responsibility to Protect” Can’t Save Syria
By James R. Holmes
R2P is just too sweeping to be practical, including in Syria. It’s time to search for more realistic options.
How Richard Nixon Would Deter China
By Zachary Keck
By using the “madman theory,” the U.S. and its allies could inject a degree of risk into China’s strategic calculus.
The New Age of Nationalism
By Zachary Keck
The 21st century will be defined by nationalism; not religion or culture.