Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: December
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Japan
The Demographic Dilemma: Why Military Support Must Consider Population Trends
The strategic center of gravity for Ukraine in its war with Russia is its ability to sustain the manpower needed to man the front lines against a determined foe. Ukraine has struggled to mobilize enough...
Op-eds
China Conducts Major Military Exercises Around Taiwan
In its largest military exercise in nearly three decades, China demonstrated its growing capacity to blockade Taiwan and project power throughout the First Island Chain of Pacific archipelagos that run...
Policy Briefs
China Retaliates Against U.S. Semiconductor Restrictions by Banning Critical Mineral Exports
In the latest sign of its growing efforts to cut off American access to crucial inputs for advanced technologies, China introduced new export controls on several critical minerals used in both civilian...
Policy Briefs
Biden Administration Hits China With New Limits on Access to Advanced U.S. Semiconductors
In a bid to block China from acquiring cutting-edge technology that would accelerate Beijing’s military modernization, the Biden administration imposed further limits on the export of semiconductors...
Policy Briefs
Russia Supplies Air Defense to North Korea as Kim Jong Un Threatens Nuclear War
Russia Bolstering North Korea’s Outdated Air Defenses: Russia provided air defense missiles and related equipment to North Korea, South Korean National Security Advisor Shin Won-shik...
Flash Briefs
Bolster U.S. Military
As a new administration is poised to take charge in January 2025, it will face a markedly different threat landscape than its predecessor. The United States and its allies now confront an axis of authoritarians...
Op-eds
Out with the old in the Old World: How Trump can usher in Eastern Europe’s moment
“In times of rapid change,” remarked industrialist J. Paul Getty, “experience could be your worst enemy.” For those in Washington, Brussels, and Berlin who are panicking about what a second...
Op-eds
OPCW Investigation Confirms Russia’s Likely Use of Chemical Weapons Against Ukraine
Russia’s consistent denials that its military forces have deployed illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine were dealt a serious blow on November 18, when the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...
Policy Briefs
House Select Committee Seeks to Tamp Down Chinese Access to Advanced Semiconductors
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued letters to several large semiconductor manufacturers this morning seeking detailed information on their sales and top customers. The move...
Policy Briefs
How a modern Lend-Lease could help save the South China Sea
A modern US-Philippines Lend-Lease could be designated for joint civilian projects
Op-eds
OPCW Must Act Against Russia’s Chemical Weapons Program
In The Hague last week, member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) failed to act against Moscow’s use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. As a result,...
Policy Briefs
China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan Elicit Only Token U.S. Response
China launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan this week acting on the pretext that Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te made offensive remarks in a major speech. These latest drills reflect Beijing’s...
Policy Briefs
‘Only strength can ensure peace’: Palau President Whipps Jr.
There is a lot going on in the Republic of Palau, a country of over 300 islands and around 20,000 people southeast of the Philippines. Its strategic location has meant Palau has been subject to waves of...
Op-eds
After Pager Explosions, Blasts From Hand-Held Radios Rock Lebanon
Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded across Lebanon on September 18, one day after thousands of pagers carried by the Iran-backed organization’s operatives similarly...
Flash Briefs
10 Things Washington Should Do to Hold Hamas Accountable
U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was executed by Hamas in late August after being taken hostage from an Israeli music festival and held in Gaza for more than 300 days. In response, a bipartisan roster...
Insights
Taiwan, under the guns
The most powerful Communist regime ever threatens its democratic neighbor
Op-eds
G7 Ambassadors Skip Nagasaki Memorial Over Israel Snub
The U.S., UK, German, and Italian ambassadors to Japan will skip Nagasaki’s annual August 9 commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing due to the city’s exclusion of Israel from...
Flash Briefs
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August
Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy...
Policy Tracker
Netanyahu to Congress: War on Israel Is a War on the United States
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel’s war in Gaza and against Iranian proxies was not a clash of civilizations but a “clash between barbarism and civilization,”...