After Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi described a potential Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan as a “survival-threatening situation” that could justify deploying Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, in ...

All of these are important, but an equally significant vulnerability is often left off the list: China’s reliance on soybean imports. Beijing recognizes this liability. At the 20th Party Congress, in ...

ZONGYUAN ZOE LIU is Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global ...

In 2015, the North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho received an unusual assignment. Kim Jong Chol, the older brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was coming to London to attend an Eric Clapton ...

The Nordic countries have expanded regional collaboration significantly in the past four years. Between them, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden now boast a new long-term defense strategy, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated his country’s politics for the last four decades, and his influence will not end even if Israelis vote him out of office. Over the course of his ...

The U.S. defense industrial base—the network of domestic and international companies and organizations responsible for the research, production, delivery, and maintenance that undergird American ...

Nearly halfway through his second term in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has undercut both the United States’ capacity to protect its interests related to China and its role as a provider of ...

By easing sanctions on Russia, cutting military and economic assistance to Ukraine, disrupting intelligence cooperation, and pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Putin’s war ...

This obsession with wielding and countering chokepoint power may seem sudden, but it has evolved over the last quarter century as a byproduct of globalization itself. As economies integrated, ...

For everyone involved, the war in Iran has been a strategic failure. The United States and Israel have shown that they can achieve a few military objectives, such as sinking Iran’s navy. But after ...

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