Abstract Nearly every important measure of the US–China competition demonstrates broad-based US primacy but trend lines that favour China. The military aspects of the intensifying…
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Abstract This essay examines the core U.S. interests in the South China Sea and argues that the United States should ensure that freedom of navigation…
Abstract In December 2015, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet issued a tough warning against China’s attempt to establish “so-called military zones” around its…
Abstract This essay offers an insight into one of the most significant bilateral relations in modern world politics: the U.S.-and-China relationship. It argues that the…
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, there have been many ups and downs in U.S. relations with China. Each presidential administration—whether Democrat or…
Abstract Chinese President Xi Jinping emphatically rejects the so-called Thucydides Trap and its analogy that a rising China is destined for war with the United…
Abstract In the nine years after the inauguration of the Lee Myung-bak administration in February 2008, the consensus regarding the alliance between the Republic of…
Abstract From a Japanese perspective, the U.S. commitment to the Asia-Pacific under the Trump administration seems to be far more robust than many in the…
Abstract Whether you hold a crystal ball passed down from Thucydides or are trained in the offensive realist tradition, your predictions about the future of…
Summary The article discusses Pakistan’s support to various militant groups that spread terrorism and it’s straining relationship with the U.S. as a result of the…
Summary The article talks about the subject of China which was a topic taken up by both U.S. Presidential candidates during the 2016 elections, Donald…
Abstract Mixed messaging and the doctrine of ‘America First’ are generating scepticism and anxiety among America’s allies and partners in the Asia-Pacific. The Trump administration…
Abstract The current trajectory of India–US relations is encouraging, but needs to be sustained by optimising their maritime-strategic convergence. In the maritime-configured Indo-Pacific region, the…
Abstract Carl von Clausewitz’s tome On War provides a rich, conceptual, logic based, practical framework for addressing the challenges of military planning in East Asia.…
Abstract Since 2014, the United States has publicly accused Russia of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a landmark Cold War nuclear arms control…
