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Why China can afford to bide its time, from Oriana Skylar Mastro and Derek Scissors for Foreign Affairs.

The United States and its Gulf Arab partners need a new security arrangement that effectively shares the burden of defending against Iranian hostility and goes beyond deterrence.

History provides a powerful reminder of the devastating consequences of war. The world must never forget that war is a great tragedy which unleashes a level of violence and carnage of unimaginable proportions. World War II (WW2), fought from 1939-1945, resulted in approximately 60 million military and civilian deaths, in addition to roughly 25 million battle wounded. Beyond the violence on the battlefield, deaths from hunger and preventable diseases are …

With the end of the Cold War, apart from claims of “end of history” and “end of ideology”, there was a widely held geopolitical thought – “With U.S. unipolarity, the concept of strong imposing their will on the weak or better known as Spheres of Influence is redundant.” However, as Graham Allison pointed out in 2020, the “New Spheres of Influence” continue to reflect the older power equations, as well as present strategic ambitions and the United States, would have to ‘share ...

Loss of chip production and sanctions from an invasion of Taiwan could lead to an acute recession. Click here to know the impacts of Taiwan invasion.

The U.S. is entering a period where competition with an aggressive Beijing becomes especially risky, says Tufts political scientist in new book

Host Michael Morell talks with Johns Hopkins China scholar Hal Brands about China and the risk of conflict between the U.S. and China in the coming years.

The US drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaeda and one of the last remaining architects of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, delivered a measure of justice. Yet it did not deliver resolution in the debates still surrounding US counterterrorism policy. For US President Joe Biden, the strike shows the US can still target bad guys even after the controversial military withdrawal from Afghanistan. For his critics, it shows that the US pullout allowed al-Qaeda’s leader...

At a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of a crucial battle in the Pacific, two daughters of men who served there reflected on the lessons of war.

CHINA boasted it has rehearsed sinking US aircraft carriers using hypersonic missiles as part of a massive war games amid simmering tensions over Taiw