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Commentary

US-China: Competing in the Age of MAGA and China Dream

Thomas J. Duesterberg

Senior Fellow

Thomas J. Duesterberg

Mar 7, 2025

Commentary

9 Min Read

A man walks past a hoisted Taiwanese flag at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on October 15, 2024. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

A War Built on Fiction: China’s Baseless Claim over Taiwan

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Mar 3, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)

Commentary

Europe’s Free Ride Comes to an End

Mike Watson

Former Fellow

Mike Watson

Mar 1, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

The Pentagon, heaquarters of the US Department of Defense, is seen from the air on February 8, 2025, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Commentary

The Pentagon Should Abandon Soviet-Era Centralized Planning

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Dan Patt

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark & Dan Patt

Feb 24, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

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In the Media

A Rare Earth Mineral Deal Is a Serious American Commitment

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Feb 24, 2025

In the Media

President Donald Trump meets with President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on February 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)

Commentary

Europe Comes to Washington to Boost Transatlantic Relations

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Feb 24, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

China's President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Trump, Xi, and a Brewing Battle Over the Indian Ocean

Mike Watson

Former Fellow

Mike Watson

Feb 22, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

Two cargo ships enter the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on January 22, 2025. (MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Panama Canal Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

Christopher R. O’Dea

Adjunct Fellow

Christopher R. O’Dea

Feb 18, 2025

Commentary

3 Min Read

14 February 2025, Bavaria, Munich: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States of America, and Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Foreign Minister, meet for talks at the Munich Security Conference. The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) will take place from February 14 to 16, 2025 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

14 February 2025, Bavaria, Munich: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock meet for talks at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2025, in Bavaria, Munich. (Sven Hoppe via Getty Images)

Commentary

What I Heard in Munich—Ordinary Germans Long for a Trump of Their Own

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Japan Chair

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Feb 17, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the White House in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2019. (Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Will Australia Get a Tariff Exemption?

John Lee

Senior Fellow

John Lee

Feb 14, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the media on the second day of the 2018 NATO Summit on July 12, 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)

Commentary

America First Does Not Mean Europe Alone

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Nadia Schadlow

Feb 12, 2025

Commentary

9 Min Read

Volunteers at the Zanzalima Camp for Internally Displaced People unload 50 kilogram saks of Wheat flour that were a part of an aid delivery from USAID on December 17, 2021, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (J. Countess via Getty Images)

Commentary

US-Africa Policy Should Be Driven by Trade, Not Aid