The two most important ways to deter China
To deter China, we must field advanced capabilities in the Indo-Pacific that can actually blunt the threat.
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To deter China, we must field advanced capabilities in the Indo-Pacific that can actually blunt the threat.
This is no simple matter of passively accepting dolled-out public goods from the great powers.
Plans have been in place for the exercises going back to 2018, but India and Japan are looking at China and saying now is the time.
This year’s summit has demonstrated the leaders’ ambitions. Regular leaders’ summits will be needed to maintain the pace and focus.
India was long the most reluctant member of the quad, alienating its huge neighbor to the north and u.s. counter to delegation. but they changed their approach after bloody skirmishes on the indough chai niece border that gained india not much more than a frozen waste land in the himalayas. today india readily engages with joint military exercises with the quad and banned chinese involvement with various aspects of the indian economy. similarly, china's imperious 14 demands issued to australia last year seemed to have played a crucial role in pushing canberra to search for a more robust deterr...