great power competition

From policing assistance to digital infrastructure, strategic competition has led to better terms and more options for the Pacific Island nations.

Distance and weak connectivity are major challenges, but there is the potential for a stronger partnership that would benefit the two regions' people and business communities.

The two sides will find it increasingly difficult to avoid intense security competition over the coming decades, but there are still meaningful choices to make.

The United States and China must craft a durable consensus that prioritizes regional stability and coexistence.

No bloc, no problem, explains Indonesia’s foreign minister.

As the Indo-Pacific emerges as the central theater of geopolitical rivalry, the absence of strategic trust is not merely an academic concern but a pressing existential issue.

Anxiety over the rise of China and the authoritarian threat to the liberal democratic order has driven a maritime-heavy strategy. But don’t forget about the Eurasian landmass.

Recent visits to Colombo by top officials from India and the U.S. illustrate how Sri Lanka’s power sector is becoming a theater of big power rivalry.

“Competition with China and Russia is a means, not an end,” Wyne reminds policymakers.

China is an especially difficult challenge for the U.S. intelligence community.

What does the new U.S.-UK-Australia trilateral cooperative partnership entail?

China-U.S. competition could actually be a net good for the world – if the middle powers can steer it in the right direction.

As great power competition rises to the fore – and counterterrorism operations recede into the background – U.S. special forces will have to adapt.

The rhetoric of great power competition threatens to devour every other aspect of U.S. foreign policy.

Insights from Zachary Shore.

China, Russia, and the U.S. are all using vaccines as diplomatic tools, giving a political dimension to other countries’ medical choices.

It’s not that simple. Any effort to characterize China as an existential threat implies a level of conflict that will provide justification for U.S. intervention anywhere in the world. 

Insights from Kevin Sheives.

It is imperative the U.S. military learns from wargame losses.

In a new book, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. explores how great power competition is driving greater naval reach of Eurasian powers.

Michele Flournoy, former Obama Pentagon appointee, on cost savings and competing with China.

Esper’s visit to Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco demonstrates the importance of the region in great-power games.

The Trump administration’s strategy for the Indo-Pacific could end up working in unpredictable ways for the U.S.

India has attempted to enter the Arctic’s contested geopolitical environment despite constraints arising from geographical distance and limited material power.