
Washington and Tokyo should continue to ensure that their shared values of transparency and openness are reflected in their regional postures.

To preserve their shared values, the United States and Japan should closely watch how China views different aspects of the international order.

The Indian economy has been slowing down for five quarters now.

Washington and Tokyo should bolster the resilience of their alliance to counter China’s increasingly sophisticated and capable military forces.

On October 11, 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their second informal summit in Mamallapuram in southern India. The conversation may follow from the two leaders’ earlier meeting in April 2018 in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The United States and Japan must continue to meet the challenge of Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions together.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are meeting on October 11, 2019. The summit in Mamallapuram, India, is a chance to work through the recent strains in the two countries’ relationship.

China has three basic paths towards strengthening its nuclear retaliatory capability: It can strengthen the survivability of its nuclear weapons, increase their numbers, or strengthen the capability of each warhead to penetrate missile defense systems.

Letting the Turks loose and repatriating a million Syrian refugees will create another humanitarian disaster, ignite a Turkish-Kurdish conflict, and give the self-proclaimed Islamic State a boost.

Proven to be the best engines for job creation, new and smaller enterprises are India's answer to rising unemployment and a burgeoning youth population.

Any future effort to revise the regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia must address the region’s protracted conflicts. It will be impossible to address the other disputes over the security architecture and economic integration without parallel steps on the conflicts.

Facing a world in which the White House’s words have lost their weight, Americans will need to reckon with the consequences.

There is a vast gap between the United States and North Korea’s expectations and visions for the denuclearization negotiations. Artful compromise is needed to avoid an acrimonious break up.

The last three years have been good for Sino-Russian cooperation.

In the Netherlands, financial institutions’ desire to test their cyber resilience led to the creation of the Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red Teaming (TIBER) framework.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo works for a mercurial and undisciplined President who trusts and empowers no one and sees everything through the lens of his own personal and political needs. It may well be that no secretary of state can navigate these turbulent waters.

There are good reasons to question how much additional capability the DF-17 will provide. Chinese propaganda, by contrast, is the only unclassified source for the accuracy of the first-of-its-kind DF-17.

Political violence can’t be predicted perfectly, but there’s a clear risk pattern. Violence is more likely where it has happened before, and the United States has the tinder for political violence.

Far from being backed into a corner by Iran, Saudi Arabia has options. It may seem counter-intuitive, but Riyadh could reap rewards from a policy of smart restraint toward Iran.

Reliable information and communication technology / operational technology products and services are an indispensable part of modern life. But much of their performance hinges on efficient and secure supply chains that have minimal inadvertent flaws or vulnerabilities and that guard against harmful interventions.