Trump’s Impact on Asia’s Contested Order 

China’s recent live-fire naval exercises in the Tasman Sea have alerted Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island states of Beijing’s growing military power and its ability to deploy military force outside of the South China Sea. This projection of hard power has been augmented by a series of China-PacificContinue Reading

The EU Squeezed Between the US and China

The EU is struggling to find some wiggle room between an increasingly hostile United States and an increasingly assertive China. A flurry of bilateral meetings and summits in Europe is a clear sign of feverish diplomacy, if not panic, mostly as a response to the whirlwind of developments triggered byContinue Reading

Trump’s Impact on Asia’s Contested Order 

Continuing policy initiatives and the resulting turmoil in Washington in the early weeks of the new Trump administration substantially add to deep uncertainty and angst in the Indo-Pacific about the status and likely outlook for international relations and the regional order. Unfortunately, the initiatives provide few clear paths forward forContinue Reading

Pakistan’s Strategic Dilemmas Amid India-US Alignment

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows in Islamabad. In the joint statement issued during Modi’s trip, the two leaders “called on Pakistan to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai, and Pathankot attacks andContinue Reading