Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning
Hal Brands, Bloomberg: China Hasn't Won the Pacific (Unless You Think It Has)
A rising school of thought among allies holds that the U.S. can't compete with Beijing's economic and military expansion.
Is China destined to dominate the Asia-Pacific? Among U.S. allies and partners in the region, there seems to be a growing doubt that America can win the ongoing competition for influence with China, and that they must begin preparing for a regional order headed by Beijing. The challenge for America, then, is to ensure that this feeling of strategic fatalism doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 5, 2018
South, North Korea to talk after military drills postponed -- Andrew Salmon. Asia Times
America Has Military Options for North Korea (but They're All Bad) -- Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest
There’s still time for diplomacy in Korea -- John Glaser, Reuters
The Real North Korea Disaster Isn't War (But Collapse) -- Doug Bandow, National Interest
Pakistan Has All the Leverage -- C. Christine Fair, Foreign Policy
Pakistan's Dangerous Slide to Extremism -- Adam Weinstein & Michael Kugelman, National Interest
Jailing of journalists hides mass graves in Myanmar -- Lee Short, Asia Times
The Iranian rebellion the world wants to ignore -- Douglas Murray, Spectator
Protests in Iran Put Rouhani on the Spot -- Golnar Motevalli, Kambiz Foroohar, and Grant Clark, Bloomberg
Is the end near for Iran's theocracy? -- Matthias von Hein, DW
Protests put spotlight on Iran’s vast, shadowy Syria war -- Philip Issa, AP
Latvia, a disappearing nation -- Gordon Sander, Politico.eu
Germans believe Merkel's best days are over -- Elizabeth Schumacher, DW
There’s a better way to unite Europe -- John Lloyd, Reuters
Is Bitcoin a 21st-Century Tulip Craze, or Something Else? -- Bronwyn Howell, AEI
What is a 'bomb cyclone?' -- Rebecca Staudenmaier (with AP)/DW
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