The Strategic Consequences of Myanmar’s State of Emergency: The Quad vs. China & Russia?

February 6, 2021

The Tatmadaw's decision to impose a year-long state of emergency in response to the formerly ruling National League for Democracy's refusal to seriously investigate the military's accusations of fraud…

Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific

January 19, 2021

Opinion

The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,” he wrote in The Strategist, “has just classified one of its most secretive …

America Versus China

November 13, 2020

Opinion

On October 27 U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo spoke with Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of India’s news website The Print in an interview that descended into an anti-China diatribe by Pompeo, who was f…

Mike Pompeo Looks to Expand Quad

November 12, 2020

Opinion

Central to the last foreign tour of US State Secretary Mike Pompeo in a number of Asian countries was a visit to India, where he and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper participated in another two-way mee…

America’s “Quad Alliance” is a Dead End

October 31, 2020

Opinion

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” as it’s been referred to is a US-led bloc created in 2007 consisting of the US itself, Australia and supposedly Japan and India. The bloc, whatever i…

US Creating Arab and Asian Counterparts to NATO

October 22, 2020

Opinion

The US has recently been stepping up its military and political activities in several areas. In addition to the Pentagon’s main focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan under the guise of combating te…

Is War With China Becoming Inevitable?

October 20, 2020

Opinion

"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday. He spelled out what he meant to commentator Larry O'Connor: "Th…

On the Ministerial Meeting for Participants in the “Quad”

October 16, 2020

Opinion

The meeting on October 6th between the foreign ministers for countries participating in the so-called “Quadrilateral” (the Quad), which is composed of the USA, Japan, India, and Australia, is one of t…