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Are U.S. Bases in Asia Vulnerable to Chinese Missiles? Very. For its part, Washington must stop trying to do it all alone—and afford allies and friends the deference their interests and contributions warrant.  Here's What You Need to Remember: Beijing can now hope to fend off U.S. reinforcements from coming to the aid of regional allies, to slow them down, or to make the effort so expensive in terms of lives and hardware that no U.S. president would order the attempt. The University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued a novella-len...

This is the first time Beijing has provided additional insight on the launch. Here's What You Need to Remember: The tests of the two missile platforms came a day after Beijing accused the United States of sending a U-2 spy plane over a no-fly zone during Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) live-fire drills in the Bohai Sea. The United States Navy had also sent two of its aircraft carrier strike groups (CSG), led by the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, to conduct tactical air defense exercises in the disputed waters "in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific."

U.S. and Its Allies Must Focus on Access Denial Against China’s Military Beijing may be deterred if it is clear that moving its naval and air force assets to attack Taiwan puts them at risk of humiliating losses. “If China is going to start a war, they are going to do it on their terms. All of our wonderful stuff won’t get there in time. You need to get your stuff there on Day Zero of the fight,” Adm. James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told me last fall. China has escalated “gray-zone” attacks against Taiwan in recent months. “Gra...

Could China’s Navy Successfully Strangle Taiwan? The PLA could deploy a blockade to stretch and thin out Taiwan’s defenders around the island’s perimeter while Chinese forces ready a concentrated blow across the strait. Here's What You Need To Remember: Taiwan is more like Cuba, an island Mahan acclaimed as a mini-continent whose inhabitants could outflank a blockade. It was blessed with natural resources, making its populace hard to starve out. Blockade runners could shift from side to side, probing for and exploiting soft spots in the quarantine line. Could Communist China blockade T...

Who owns the high seas? The conventional answer is: no one and everyone. Coastal states exercise sovereignty over territorial waters that normally extend 12 nautical miles from their shorelines. They also have the right to exploit undersea resources like oil and gas in exclusive economic zones that extend out 200 nautical miles. Economics rights can even be extended further to incorporate the entire continental shelf before the seabed falls off into a deep ocean basin. These lawyerly definitions are contentious enough in their own terms, but they are next to meaningless when it comes to secur...