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Russia and China

Russia and China Claim Value-Based Diplomacy Provokes Division

The upcoming American-led online Summit for Democracy will stoke ideological confrontation. Faced with an array of global challenges, countries urgently need to strengthen coordination and cooperation for common progress.

Biden and Xi’s Scripted Summit Was More Talk than Action

Joe Biden and the Broken Promise of Normalcy

Why ‘Confrontation’ with China Cannot Be Avoided

The Skeptics

America Needs Better Information About Nuclear Weapons States

Glitches in the System: A Call for Transformational Change in the U.S. Nuclear Community

How China Could Test the U.S. Commitment to Taiwan

The Buzz

More Immigration Is Inevitable, But Overcoming Its Challenges Isn’t

Additional Trials Will Delay T-14 Armata Arrival Until 2022

What’s Delaying the New Presidential Helicopter?

Paul Pillar

Durham’s Dry Hole and the Trump-Russia Connection

Unfair Obituaries and the Case of Colin Powell

Unfounded Alarm About Relations with Syria

Coronavirus

600 Google Employees Sign Manifesto Against Vaccine Mandate

Dr. Gottlieb: CDC to Likely Require Booster to Be Considered ‘Fully Vaccinated’

Survey: More Americans Plan to Host Holiday Parties Without Masks

Korea Watch

Former President Chun Doo-hwan Spurned by Korean Presidential Candidates

North Korea Remains the Land of Bad Options: What to Do About Human Rights?

Joe Biden Must Change His North Korea Policy

Recent Stories

Biden and Xi’s Scripted Summit Was More Talk than Action

Given the consequences of miscommunication at a time when tensions are high already in Asia, it might have been better not to press for the virtual summit.

After Sixth Plenum, China Belongs to Xi Jinping

The Chinese Communist Party’s recently concluded and highly debated Sixth Plenum, a gathering of all 376 full-time and substitute CCP Central Committee members, only further cemented Xi’s political control and his “authoritarian image” within the party and military echelon.

Can America Afford to Take Care of Its Veterans?

We may have ended combat in Iraq and Afghanistan but the mental, physical, and fiscal costs of those who have borne the battle will linger for many decades.