Rising Powers
Asia, Take Notice: China’s Hong Kong Gambit
While recently in Hong Kong for a reunion of former correspondents, the territory seemed much the same as we had first found it in the 1980s, a robust place where...
China’s Budding Ocean Empire
I am flattered by Nilanthi Samaranayake’s lengthy and respectful treatment of my March 2009 Foreign Affairs cover story about the importance of the Indian Ocean, on the article’s fifth anniversary....
Beware: A Time of Troubles Ahead for Asia
On May 25, amid the Russia-China ‘Joint Sea-2014’ military exercise, it was reported that Chinese fighter jets flew within 100 feet of two Japanese reconnaissance planes located in the two...
The Master Plan: How to Avoid a Dangerous U.S.-China Rivalry
Book Review: Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century By: James Steinberg and Michael O’Hanlon Princeton University Press, 272 Pages, $29.95 James Steinberg and Michael O’Hanlon’s recently...
Get Ready World: China and Russia Are Getting Closer
Whenever Russian president Vladimir Putin meets with his Chinese counterparts, there is always dramatic talk about the intensifying special relationship between the two countries and the enunciation of bold goals...
India’s Destiny Dilemma
On August 15, India will mark the sixty-seventh year of its independence. The results of its national parliamentary elections will be official well before then. This country of kaleidoscopic diversity...
Five Chinese Weapons of War America Should Fear
In the last twenty years, China has quickly ascended from a regional to global military power. A generation ago, the People’s Liberation Army was armed with antiquated weapons and oriented...
Chinese Dominance Isn’t Certain
Geoff Dyer, The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014), 320 pp., $26.95. Robert D. Kaplan, Asia’s Cauldron: The...
Drive a Wedge Between Russia and China
There’s no question that Russia’s annexation of the Crimea is a blatant violation of international law. However, talk of a new Cold War and of “containing” Russia take our eyes...
Japan and Korea: Opportunities for Cooperation
Editor’s Note: TNI has teamed up with Japan-ROK Working Group at the Pacific Forum CSIS in order to preview its upcoming report focused on improving bilateral relations through targeted engagement...
America Turns East, China Turns West
“Bugging out” is exactly what our friends and foes alike in the greater Middle East think the United States is doing after more than a decade of war in the...
Getting Tough in the South China Sea
The Obama administration may have finally lost its patience with China’s salami-slicing in the East and South China Seas. Remarks over the past few weeks from administration officials show a...