China’s only ally, they say, is North Korea, while America has an entire alliance system encompassing many key regional states, as well as a wider circle of close friends. Without allies and friends like that, the argument goes, China can never replace America as the region’s leading power.
Professor Hugh White talks about the US's weakening strategic credibility with regards to North Korea and China's growing claim to the US's leadership.
n a slow moving transition underway since late 2014, there are strong signs that the often-criticised US Air Sea Battle operational concept is being quietly — albeit not officially — sidelined as a focus of US military strategy. The likelihood is that a new program, the so-called Third Offset Strategy, is displacing it
The US-China relationship - arguably the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world - is defined by an abiding paradox: while the two countries
This lecture employs the idea of the tributary system—most often associated with China’s international relations from antiquity—to interpret how America re
Economics isn’t enough to stop potentially catastrophic conflict in the South China Sea. It’s time to explore a range of innovative and potentially less force-driven ways of solving what seems an intractable issue, writes Greg Raymond.
After months of increasing concerns about China's land reclamation in the South China Sea, going back to at least May, the United States decision to conduct