Strategic studies
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China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons.
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Russia’s Ukraine Obsession
The world was unprepared for the challenges triggered by Ukraine’s efforts to affirm its sovereignty and build a more transparent,…
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China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era: Where do Japan, Russia and the USA fit?
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that…
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How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
Although many Americans were slow to realize it, Beijing’s enmity for Washington began long before U.S. President Donald Trump’s election…
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Australia is getting nuclear subs, with American and British help
ONLY SIX countries in the world—America, Britain, China, France, India and Russia—currently operate nuclear-powered submarines. Australia may become the unlikely…
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Why Putin Is Obsessed With ‘Foreign Agents’
Ahead of Russia’s State Duma elections this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reason to be concerned: The popularity of…
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China’s Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started
To many people who follow events in China closely, two announcements made in the past month by the Chinese government…
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China’s Afghanistan Dilemma
The hasty and tumultuous U.S. drawdown from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s subsequent military victory have occasioned more than a little…
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The Limits of China’s Engagement in Afghanistan
In the wake of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces and their…
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The U.S. Obsession With Failed States After 9/11 Was a Costly Distraction
The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is an opportune moment to reflect on the lessons the United States drew from those…
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Minxin Pei on why China will not surpass the United States
AMERICA’S CHAOTIC exit from Afghanistan must be seen by Chinese leaders as the latest proof of its irreversible decline. But…
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Arabs should find it easy to understand China
As 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the most often repeated statement…
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