The country’s population surged from 540 million in 1949 to a peak of 1.4 billion in 2021 but tipped over into decline in 2022. In … Read the rest
Category: Asia
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India Won’t Side With Washington Against Beijing
For the past two decades, Washington has made an enormous bet in the Indo-Pacific – that treating India as a key partner will help the … Read the rest
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How To Spy On China
Over the past few months, as competition with China has intensified, the Biden administration has struggled to provide the United States and its allies with … Read the rest
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Bad Advice Plaguing Beijing
The incursion in January of a Chinese spy balloon into U.S. airspace seemed to many observers like a bad miscalculation by Beijing. U.S. Secretary of … Read the rest
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Why A Partial Victory Will Solve Little
The country’s population surged from 540 million in 1949 to a peak of 1.4 billion in 2021 but tipped over into decline in 2022. In … Read the rest
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How to Survive A Great-Power Competition
As relations between China and the United States grow more antagonistic, the rest of the world watches with unease. Washington has repeatedly accused Beijing of spying … Read the rest
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One-State Reality
The history of what is now Palestine and Israel is a complicated one that started when the Hashemite Sherif Hussein and notably also his son Faisal I … Read the rest
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How Long Can This Not-Quite-Total War Be Sustained?
As Joshua Yaffa recently commented, the push to claim new territory and mobilize more troops are unlikely to reverse Russia’s losses on the battlefield—but it could move the … Read the rest
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A Sorbid History Under Pressure
Early on, in September, we covered this subject with another article emphasizing how isolated the country has become. But widespread anger is still mounting, and dire … Read the rest