Tensions across the Taiwan Strait are now at the highest level in years raising concerns that any unexpected policy mistakes by either side risk dragging the United States into a potential direct military confrontation with China. Since the previous Moon Jae-in administration, South Korea s stance towards the Taiwan issue hasn t changed much.
After two decades of bloodshed in Afghanistan, the United States' haste to end the country's longest war came with little thought on both the plight of the Afghans and on what Washington policymakers got wrong, military experts say.
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United States President Joe Biden sent shock waves on his first Asian trip by committing to "nuclear deterrence" for the Republic of Korea, wider military exercises and weapon upgrades in a region deemed the engine of global economic growth.
Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.