The country has been gradually expanding military cooperation with the U.S., Japan, and Beijing-claimed Taiwan.

The Asia-Indo-Pacific is no longer a distant geopolitical theater. It is the central arena of strategic competition, ...

Elbridge Colby’s recent decision to formally request how—and when—Australia and Japan would respond to any outbreak of hostilities in the Indo-Pacific between the United States and China was prudent.

He served as U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic ...

Public pledges from the Asia-Pacific allies unlikely, observers say, with efforts to pressure them seen as signs of 'weakening' confidence The United States is unlikely to secure public pledges from ...

US' policy of ambiguity towards Taiwan may have worked so far, but with the world order shifting and China sending ominous ...

Less than six months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration’s foreign policy has generated ...

In an astonishingly flat-footed move, the US now wants commitments to a hypothetical war with China. It now “demands” answers ...

The United States has "succeeded" in pressing its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to agree to increase their military spending from 2 percent of their gross domestic product to 5 percent in ...

The Pentagon is urging Japan and Australia to clarify what role they would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan ...

View PDF Executive Summary This research project began as an effort to explore the potential security challenges that a Taiwan contingency would pose to Japan. Research revealed, however, that ...