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How President Trump Lost the Indo-Pacific
By Brice Tseen Fu Lee and Juan Pablo Sims
Trump’s first term removed the United States from Southeast Asia’s economic future. His second is cutting it out of the region’s strategic present.

Why China Is Not Interested in Great Power Carve-ups
By Zhao Long
Understanding Beijing’s strategic rejection of a “Yalta 2.0” arrangement.

Great Power Competition and the Global South
By Mercy A. Kuo
Insights from Van Jackson.

Why Japan Is Worried After Trade Talks With Trump (and the Rest of the World Should Be)
By Kareem Rifai
The manner in which the Trump administration has conducted itself toward Japan should serve as a warning to U.S. friends and foe alike: no one is safe.

How Trump Is Bolstering China’s World View
By Gabriele Manca
Ironically, Trump’s approach to international relations is playing the game of his proclaimed main enemy: Xi Jinping’s China.

Waste Not, Want Not: The Need for US Soft Power in the Indo-Pacific
By Guy C. Charlton and Xiang Gao
The U.S. cannot sustain its influence or meet its objectives in the Indo-Pacific with only hard power or material inducements to other states.

Why a Possible Trump-Putin Rapprochement Is Good for China
By Justyna Szczudlik
Whatever the U.S. intentions, the outcome of the Russia-U.S. dialogue would be beneficial for China.

Set Adrift: The Australian Political Class and the US Alliance under Trump 2.0
By Michel Clarke
Thus far, Australian leaders seem unable to address the implications of the fact that U.S. values and interests may in fact no longer be congruent with Australia’s own.

Thailand’s Uyghur Repatriation Shows the Consequences of Trump Policy Incoherence
By Carolyn Nash
The Trump administration is no longer demonstrating concern with its own purported human rights priorities, and Thailand knows it.

What Do Chinese Analysts Think of Trump’s China Policy Thus Far?
By Hemant Adlakha
Contrary to Beijing’s expectations, China seemed to have been let off easy in the early days of the Trump 2.0 presidency. Will that last?

The EU Squeezed Between the US and China
By Plamen Tonchev
Decision-makers in Beijing expect that Trump’s brutal pressure will bring Europe closer to China and, on the face of it, this would make sense. But a full-fledged détente between the EU and China is unlikely.

Zelenskyy at the White House: The Rapid Crumbling of US Leadership Creates a Golden Opportunity for China
By Zi Yang
Amid a near-complete reversal in U.S. foreign policy, more nations may look to China to fill the role that the United States once played – an unthinkable prospect just a few months ago.
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