Xi Jinping is taking advantage of Biden's soft touch

Assurances to China contrast with call for Russian regime change

A Spotlight on Chinese Debt Bondage

The US-India Partnership Is Too Important to Lose

China's expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks

Biden’s Dangerous Embrace of Pakistan

The Quad is at risk of losing its strategic focus

Biden is saddling the group with a distracting global agenda

India has a stake in Taiwan's defense

Chinese territorial claims in Himalayas are much bigger than the island

The Afghan abyss: One year after the U.S. pullout

NEW DELHI – In the year since the United States’ disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the country has gone down precisely the...

The Afghan Abyss

The fall of the house of Rajapaksa

NEW DELHI – For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business — and a...

Ukraine war hastens Sri Lanka's economic meltdown

Impact of Russian sanctions likely to be felt by a string of poorer nations

The Fall of the House of Rajapaksa

Hydropower is a bad bargain

NEW DELHI – The era of cheap oil and gas is over. Russia’s war in Ukraine — or, more specifically, Europe’s ambitious effort to wean itself...

Hydropower Is a Bad Bargain

India's front line battle against autocracy more important than ever

The risk of renewed skirmishes with China is growing

India should invite Myanmar's foreign minister to ASEAN meet

Giving Naypyitaw the cold shoulder is not in New Delhi's interests

Biden's empty Taiwan rhetoric reveals Quad's core weakness

Group will have to move fast if it is to maintain status quo in the Indo-Pacific

A clash of titans: The forgotten India-China border row

NEW DELHI – With global attention focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s territorial expansionism in Asia — especially its expanding...

The Clash of Asia’s Titans

European scramble for energy comes at Asia's expense

EU moves to wean itself off Russian oil and gas is creating a self-defeating trap

The ‘Quad’ at a crossroads

NEW DELHI – When the “Quad” was first conceived as a strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific’s four leading democracies, many doubted that it...

The Quad at a Crossroads

Washington's clumsy attempts to bully India must stop

Undermining its relationship with New Delhi will cost the U.S. dearly

China continues its territorial advances in Asia

Strategy relies on a steady progression of actions to outmaneuver rival states

Putin’s war and the mirage of the rules-based order

NEW DELHI – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s unprecedented response represent a watershed in international relations, marking the...

Putin's War and the Mirage of the Rules-Based Order

Ukraine war puts U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy in jeopardy

Focus on Russia will curtail efforts to limit Chinese expansionism

The new global Cold War clouds India’s tightrope walk

India, having confronted Chinese border aggression over the past 22 months, has taken a restrained stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine,...

Will the U.S. finally make the pivot to Asia?

Amid escalating U.S.-Russia tensions, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled his long-delayed “Indo-Pacific Strategy” on Feb. 11, just as the White...

Beijing Winter Olympics a troubling reminder of 1936 Games

International participation risks emboldening Xi Jinping

America is focusing on the wrong enemy

NEW DELHI – Much of the democratic world would like the United States to remain the preeminent global power. But with the U.S. apparently committed...

Beijing Winter Olympics a troubling reminder of the 1936 Games

International participation risks emboldening Xi Jinping

America Is Focusing on the Wrong Enemy

Biden's Afghan debacle has emboldened China and Russia

Moscow and Beijing are ratcheting up military aggression from Ukraine to Taiwan

The great COVID-19 coverup

NEW DELHI – As the pandemic enters its third year, questions about COVID-19’s origins appear increasingly distant. But if we are to forestall...

The Great COVID Coverup

The Quad needs an economic pillar to stand on

Four nation grouping needs to focus on more security to maintain relevance

Beijing turns to hybrid ‘lawfare’ to expand its borders

NEW DELHI – As the world’s largest, strongest and longest-surviving dictatorial one-party-governed nation, contemporary China lacks the rule of...

Xi's nuclear frenzy aimed at shielding China's expansionism

Weapons buildup casts doubt on whether U.S. can defend Taiwan

China's Global Hybrid War

NEW DELHI – As the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-surviving dictatorship, contemporary China lacks the rule of law. Yet it is...

Taliban turning Afghanistan into narco-terrorist state

NEW DELHI – The strategic folly of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under...

China's bullying of tiny Bhutan risks South Asian stability

David and Goliath struggle exposes Beijing's expansionist intent

The Narco-Terrorist Taliban

NEW DELHI – The strategic folly of US President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under...

Saving Taiwan

NEW DELHI – China’s coercive expansionism may be taking its most dangerous turn yet. Recently, record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes...

Biden shifts to a more conciliatory approach toward China

In the recent words of U.S. President Joe Biden, the world stands “at an inflection point in history.” At stake is the future of the world order,...

Helping the Taliban but not Myanmar detrimental to Western interests

Naypyitaw's generals treated as bigger threat than the terrorists controlling Kabul

Biden's Afghanistan fiasco is a disaster for Asia

Self-inflicted defeat sends message that allies cannot count on US