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If you don’t want a military conflict with China, then don’t encircle it, provoke it and wilfully misunderstand its motives. Beijing is not seeking world domination, but the continuing rejuvenation of its nation. Two hawkish American academics, Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, have been relentless in their anti-China op-eds over the past few weeks. In a number of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and now The Atlantic, as well as spin-offs on Bloomberg, their pieces all...

The West is particularly annoyed by the foreign policy of Russia, because Russia (along with China) is clearly opposed to Washingtons world order. Russia and China

If you don’t want a military conflict with China, then don’t encircle it, provoke it and wilfully misunderstand its motives. Beijing is not seeking world domination, but the continuing rejuvenation of its nation.

Military power has historically been a Russian strength, compensating for the country’s undiversified economy, technological backwardness, and lack of political dynamism.

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Author: Hal Brands and Charles Edel The book offers an eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international peace. Today, after more than seventy years of great‑power peace and a quarter‑century of unrivaled global leadership, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been

Analysis posted in two influential American publications argues that China is on the wane, due to its economy slowing down and it facing pressure from the West. That’s fallacious nonsense rooted in ideological bias and fear.

Why the world is in for a dangerous decade on The Spectator Australia | The Australia/UK/US (Aukus) deal for Australia to acquire nuclear submarines is the…

The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan exposed the shortcomings of views within the foreign policy establishment, also known as ‘The Blob.’

The moral stain of Afghanistan’s chaos does splatter us. Yet continuing the conflict had moral costs of its own. Withdrawal critics have often ignored or downplayed these costs, but thanks to the withdrawal, these are costs the United States will no longer pay.