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Introduction There is a great deal of discussion among U.S. policymakers today about the challenges that China’s rising power presents for the United States. This discussion is welcome news as China, under the governance of the Chinese Communist Party, presents a combination of risks the United States has never before faced.
On August 5, 2019, the United Nations’ Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Myanmar (Burma) released a revealing report on the economic interests of the Burmese military.REF The report was a follow-up to the FFM’s initial
On July 16, 2020, the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights released its first draft report to the general public. The report emphasizes the interplay among freedom, democracy, and human rights, and concludes that the promotion of “social and economic rights are essential to a comprehensive foreign policy.”
The inauguration of Yoon Suk Yeol as South Korea’s new president quickly led to alignment with the United States on a wide range of foreign and security policies. Yoon declared that a strong alliance with the United States would be the foundation for South Korea’s foreign relations with China and North Korea. He rejected his predecessors’ attempts to balance Seoul’s relationship with Beijing and Washington.
The transformation of the Indian–U.S. relationship has been one of the great U.S. foreign policy success stories of the past two decades. Estranged democracies during much of the Cold War, India and the United States have, since the turn of the millennium, constructed one of the defining strategic partnerships of the 21st century. Cooperation has not always come easy, or developed as quickly and meaningfully as its advocates hoped, but its geopolitical significance of the evolving partnership is undeniable.