Trans-Pacific View

CFIUS’ annual report signals upgraded scrutiny of non-notified transactions, especially deals involving Chinese investors.

Modern thinkers widely misunderstand the contemporaneous significance of Nixon’s 1972 trip to China. That significance provides a blueprint for thawing the current tensions.

The successful rebuilding of post-war Japan may have encouraged the U.S. in its attempts at nation-building. But Japan is not a universal model.

To be tough or to cooperate, that is the question.

The challenge for Washington is that countries like Vietnam are reluctant to sacrifice their relations with either China or the United States.

China has numerous potential avenues for cracking down on illegal drug production and export. What it lacks is the political will to do so.

The $625 million project, and a planned new embassy building in Hanoi, symbolizes Washington's increased attention to Southeast Asia.

The hearing is set to kick off a long legal wrangle over a case that involves evidence tainted by CIA torture.

The visit highlighted both the overlaps and the misalignments between the U.S. and Southeast Asian governments.

The expansion of U.S. cooperation with Southeast Asia was a welcome step, but the question of long-term strategy remains.

Despite the intention to refocus U.S. energy and attention on the Asia-Pacific, difficult questions remain as to the benefits for U.S. China policy.

On the first day of her Southeast Asian trip, the vice president signed agreements on COVID-19, climate change, and supply chain issues.