Asia-Pacific

November 15, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Janatan Sayeh

Donald Trump: Back to the Future on Iran Policy

Tehran’s theocrats must be terrified. That’s a good thing. Despite the limited and lackluster commentary on Donald Trump’s electoral victory in the Iranian press and by officials, regime elites must now face the fact that the candidate they sought to kill is set to re-assume the presidency on January 20, 2025.

May 30, 2024 | |

U.S. Boycotts UN Session Honoring Iran’s Late President

The United States boycotted a May 30 plenary session of the UN General Assembly held to commemorate Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. Speeches...

March 5, 2024 | Matt Pottinger |

The JoongAng-CSIS Forum 2024: Keynote Address by Matt Pottinger

Prime Minister Han [Duck-Soo]; Chairman Hong [Seok-Hyun]; President Hamre—thank you for your stimulating remarks this morning.  And thank you for inviting me to be here today. We have a distinguished...

March 29, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Alternatives to ‘peace through strength’

None are preferable to robust deterrence

November 24, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Ryan Brobst

Congress should support the Biden administration’s effort to sell defensive missiles to Saudi Arabia

A fight is brewing within the Democratic party over whether to permit the sale of defensive air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration’s State Department approved the sale of 280 AIM-120C...

October 28, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, John Hardie, Zane Zovak

Don’t Assume the US Will Fight China and Russia One at a Time

Beijing and Moscow are boosting their strategic coordination along with their militaries.

March 24, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s Power Plays Turn to Profit Margins

Erdogan’s Power Plays Turn to Profit Margins

February 28, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself is Brought to Desolation

Excerpt “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” – Matthew 12:25 Democracy is a delicate machine composed...

December 15, 2020 | Eric Sayers, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Seizing the Advantage in the Asia-Pacific

December 12, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

How Canada became dangerously compliant to China

The baseline was hug a PLA soldier and ride off on a unicorn into a trust-based sunset together. It wasn’t that the Canadian government didn’t know what was going on in China. A few days ago, I got...

April 9, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Assad’s Horror, and Those Who Enable It

Horrific images from the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria are once again circulating online. The scene of this gassing is the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Both the...

September 14, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

President Obama’s last to-do list

Barack Obama is now in his final days as president but, as he made clear on his visit to Asia last week, there are goals he still hopes to achieve before leaving office. Closing the dete...

January 30, 2014 | |

Pivoting Right Past North Korea

President Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday gave scant time to foreign policy, and just one long sentence to the Asia-Pac...

December 20, 2013 | |

Technology for Tyrants

It's well over a year since the United Nations intellectual property agency got caught undermining the U.N.’s own sanctions—shipping U.S.-origin computers and related high-tech e...

May 6, 2013 |

China’s Ruthless Foreign Policy is Changing the World in Dangerous Ways

Are we witnessing the end of the “American age”? It depends whom you ask. But one thing is certain: Thanks to the near-bankruptcy of the American welfare state, Washington is losing b...

April 18, 2013 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

The Problem with the Pivot

The Far East is as inscrutable as the Middle East.

April 1, 2013 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

At the U.N., Iran Is a Powerhouse, Not a Pariah

The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism heads the General Assembly's second-largest voting bloc.

September 11, 2012 | |

The Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council

High-profile genocide is a no-no—but dictatorship, slavery, and anti-Semitism are A-OK.

September 11, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorists Fight On

Eleven years after the most devastating terrorist attack in history, some in America pretend that the threat of jihad or Islamist terrorism has waned to such an extent that it is no long...

April 3, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Ambassador Crocker Objects to Strategic Retreat

Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the State Department’s man in Kabul, is clearly concerned about a premature drawdown of American and Western forces from Afghanistan. “If we decide w...