I write about China, the Indo-Pacific, and strategic competition for audiences who take the threat seriously and distrust easy answers.
Gaddafi, Saddam, Ukraine. The liberal order's failure to make nuclear weapons unnecessary has made them indispensable — and Pyongyang noticed first.
Parallel military and intelligence purges in Washington and Beijing reveal structural similarities the political-systems frame is built to obscure.
America's long-standing posture of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan has become outdated and counterproductive given shifting power dynamics.
President Lai Ching-te initiates a counteroffensive against Beijing's espionage network with a 17-point national security strategy.