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The idea, which will be subject to public hearings later this month, is meant to accommodate the Navy's growing presence and needs on the West Coast.

On Monday, the U.S., Japan, and ten other countries concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP—the largest regional trade accord in history. If approved, the agreement will set new terms for the nearly $28 trillion in trade and business investment between the parties to the deal, a group in which China is not included. —The Editors

From worries about South Korean troops to a bigger footprint for Japan, here are the must-read stories Breaking Defense's man in Sydney.

Commentary Kurt Campbell, now at the White House, came up with the “Pacific Pivot” in approximately 2010. It ...

The Trump administration has taken a more confrontational approach to bilateral relations with China, implementing tariffs on nearly half of all Chinese exports to the U.S. and treating Beijing as a strategic competitor across many aspects of the relationship. In this podcast, Paul Haenle spoke with Abigail Grace, a Research Associate in the Asia-Pacific Security Program at

Over the past year, Donald Trump has vowed to “utterly destroy” ISIS, considered lifting sanctions on Russia, promised to cancel the Paris climate agreement and “dismantle” the Iran nuclear deal. But many of his most inflammatory statements are directed at China. He has promised to label China as a “currency manipulator,” suggested he will dispense with the “one China policy,”

International responses to the tribunal’s ruling in the South China Sea have raised questions about the stability of the Asia-Pacific region and what roles the United States and China have in it.

"The point is, that it is Asia that is the prize. We call it the Pacific, but Asia is the prize," argues Maj. Gen. Brad Gericke, the Army's director for strategy, plans and policy. "And that's where power, that's where economic, military social informational power is going to primarily emanate from over the next century."