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As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, it is a good moment to say to Afghanistan veterans once again, thank you. We are safer because of you.

View: India’s future as big power lies in tech SECTIONS Share Synopsis The US is not getting out of “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan to engage in another one with putative superpower China. India is not about to get into an armed conflict with China either. But both countries together have a chance to ‘out-compete’ China, realising the promise of “techno-democracies” versus “techno-autocracies”. India, therefore, needs to pay much greater attention to the most important ...

China Daily, August 7, 2017. Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean Peninsula. Recent publications include the entry on Korea for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (New York: Springer, 2019). He has also written some chapters for a forthcoming collection: Immanuel Ness and Stuart Davis, eds., Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Leiden: Brill, 20...

An emboldened Biden meets an unbothered Putin Ishaan Tharoor , including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Russian and American flags fly on a bridge in Geneva on June 15, a day ahead of a meeting there between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) And now for the season finale. President Biden landed in Geneva on Tuesday, ahead of his much-anticipated meeting with Rus...

In Bhutan, China Takes Disputed Territory Without Firing A Shot May 28, 2021 Foreign Policy magazine recently dropped a bombshell: China has built an entirely new village in an area historically and internationally recognized as part of neighboring country Bhutan’s territory. Moreover, China did it through a “gray zone invasion,” without firing a single shot, causing any military conflict with Bhutan, or even drawing any international attention until after the fact. The revelation is a ...

Cold War, Hard and Soft A cold war has hard and soft components, like an egg or the SAT. Last night the Oscars were a stark reminder the U.S. is winning the soft-power part of the war. The hard part could be a much different story. “Nomadland,” a very good, very depressing movie about premature retirees living in vans, won best picture. Its director, Chloé Zhao, a Chinese national, won best director. (Frances McDormand, a national treasure, won best actress for her part in the movie. Also...

Does America Really Need to Contain China? Is the moment propitious for a return to an older containment doctrine that might serve as the animating spirit of the Biden administration? SEVENTY-FIVE years ago, George F. Kennan, who was charge d’affaires in the American embassy in Moscow, sent what has become known as the “Long Telegram” to the State Department. The frustration that Kennan had felt for years over what he believed was a naïve and excessively concessive policy toward Joseph S...

Follow RT on Celebrating the US’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic as a late geopolitical ‘victory’ over China is a cynical tramp on the half a million American lives lost. That’s beside the fact that there’s really nothing to celebrate. A few days ago, I arrived in the United States to spend a few weeks visiting friends as things begin to safely open back up. Within less than a day, I was able to get my first Covid-19 vaccine dose and already have my second scheduled. It spea...

This article is part of the series—Raisina Edit 2021 On the campaign trail and in his first months in office, President Joseph Biden repeatedly touted democratic values as a centrepiece of his administration’s foreign policy. He has regularly stressed the importance of working with democratic allies, opted to retain the Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision pioneered by the Trump administration, and upgraded the “Quad” grouping of Indo-Pacific democracies comprising Australia, India, Japan,...

The first week of March, the Biden administration rolled out a speech by Antony Blinken and an interim national security strategy. Those documents overlap significantly with each other and with a report led by Jake Sullivan, now Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, when he was at the Carnegie Endowment last year. Any number of authors have shared the 35 things they want Biden to do in his first week and specific solutions to numerous foreign and domestic policy problems, including would-be ...