Writing

China built nearly nine times more energy capacity than the U.S. in 2025 and is industrializing molten salt reactor technology America abandoned. The chip lead may be moot.

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America's long-standing posture of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan has become outdated and counterproductive given shifting power dynamics.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.

The strategic vulnerability of the Dongsha Islands and the potential for them to become the next major cross-strait flashpoint.

An argument that the Biden administration must renew America's commitment to backing democratic allies against Chinese pressure.

A Chinese-backed resort project in Cambodia that may serve strategic military purposes, expanding Beijing's naval string of pearls.