US report reveals Chinese naval challenge
In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S....
AUKUS: pushing China and Russia closer
By Lyle J. Goldstein*
Washington and other allied capitals have been abuzz with talk of nuclear submarines since the surprise announcement of the new trilateral...
Unwelcome challenge to NNP treaty
By Trevor Findlay*
Australia is set to become the first state without nuclear weapons to acquire nuclear-powered submarines. This presents yet another unwelcome challenge to...
Saving Taiwan from China
By Brahma Chellaney*
China’s coercive expansionism may be taking its most dangerous turn yet. Recently, record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes have entered Taiwan’s air...
AUKUS can help Indian strategic autonomy
By Yogesh Joshi*
The AUKUS strategic partnership of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States has created a kerfuffle whose echoes have been heard...
N Korea to build military directed at US
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed powerful missiles developed to launch nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland, as he vowed to build an...
Biden warned on weapons-grade uranium
There is growing pressure on the new Aukus partners to scrap plans to use weapons-grade uranium on submarines, the Guardian reports.
A group of former...
In defence of AUKUS
By Oriana Skylar Mastro and Zack Cooper*
When Barack Obama announced the rebalance to Asia in 2011, he also revealed the rotational deployment of US...
US ‘sleepwalking’ to war with China
By Joseph S. Nye Jr*
As US President Joe Biden’s administration implements its strategy of great-power competition with China, analysts seek historical metaphors to explain...
Small-place fights and big wars
The relationship between conquest and conflict may seem straightforward: start a war, prevail on the battlefield, take control of desired territory, Dan Altman write...