As suggested, the US is forced to contemplate a possibility that many have regarded as almost unthinkable since the Cold War: a major military … Read the rest
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United States must do more to counter China
Competition with China has begun to consume U.S. foreign policy. Seized with the challenge of a near-peer rival whose interests and values diverge sharply from … Read the rest
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China’s pursuit of greatness part 2 and conclusion
China’s global ambitions
While we earlier mentioned that arctic geopolitics may also further heat the already warming northern cone and that Russia is deploying armored … Read the rest
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China’s pursuit of greatness Part 1
Pursuit of Greatness
It is known that China’s emissions exceed all developed nations combined and as we have seen one of the key outcomes from the … Read the rest
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Can a Potential Future Pacific War be Avoided? Part 6
In part one, we gave a general overview of the 1919 or “Wilsonian moment,” a notion that extends before and after that calendar year, … Read the rest
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The Five Days That Made Pearl Harbours As a Key For the Worldwide War
The riddle surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack
The dominant narrative holds that Japan’s surprise attack led inexorably to the outbreak of a truly global conflict. … Read the rest
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The Importance of South East and East Asia Today
In the turbulent 2010s, a perspective from East Asian history that might have been useful was about the fragility of democracy. The story of post-war … Read the rest
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Gorbachev’s Reform
Shultz would not let the matter rest, however. He told the president, “To succeed, we have to have a team: right now there isn’t one. … Read the rest
