Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might […]

Dans le silence assourdissant de nos médias, la Bosnie plonge rapidement vers la guerre. Une guerre civile entre les trois groupes – Serbes orthodoxes, Croates catholiques et Bosniaques, soit des musulmans serbes – qui la composent. Ou plutôt, qui composent la fédération la plus improbable et la plus préoccupante pour son instabilité, de l’histoire récente. Les Bosniaques et les Croates […]

Le conflit sino-indien révélé par l’accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et la Nouvelle-Zélande Il n’est plus communément admis qu’il existe un abîme historique intense entre l’Inde et la Chine. Ce conflit entre deux vastes blocs de civilisation mondiale a été occulté depuis la création du groupe BRIC, comme il a été initialement appelé, lors d’un sommet intergouvernemental entre le Brésil, […]

Poutine se rendra bientôt en Inde pour renforcer les liens entre les deux pays. La date de la visite n’a pas encore été indiquée, mais le voyage a été confirmé par Lavrov. De plus, New Delhi a toujours ignoré les sanctions occidentales contre la Russie et a continué d’acheter du gaz et du pétrole, obtenant des réductions qui ont augmenté […]

The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, and—if necessary—defeat the People’s Liberation […]

An F-35A Lightning II made a precautionary landing at Kadena Air Base on Thursday, according to the Okinawa Defense Bureau. The bureau made visual inspection and reported emergency vehicles gathered around the fighter jet at 11:55 a.m. following the landing, a bureau spokesman said by phone Thursday. The area defense bureau is an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense. The […]

Moscou et Beijing poursuivent le travail conjoint dans le cadre du partenariat hautement stratégique qui lie les deux nations et puissances mondiales de premier rang. Comme à l’habitude des relations sino-russes contemporaines, indépendamment de la conjoncture internationale et des gesticulations d’une évidente minorité planétaire. Les relations Chine-Russie rendent extrêmement nerveux l’axe de la minorité planétaire nostalgique de l’unipolarité non pas […]

On 12 March 2015, during his visit to Mauritius, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had unveiled the contours of India’s maritime outreach policy ‘Security And Growth for All in the Region’ or SAGAR, which aimed to promote a climate of trust and transparency with a respect for international maritime rules and increase maritime cooperation between partners. A decade has passed […]

According to media reports, the military government of the West African country Niger has recently expelled three Chinese executives working in the oil sector. These executives were in charge of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the West African Oil Pipeline Company (WAPCo), and the joint venture oil refinery SORA.. The Nigerien authorities stated that the expulsion was due to disputes […]

Amidst the world deepening into geopolitical tensions and increasing uncertainty with regard to trade policies, India-China relations are inching towards a thaw. Both are now at the drawing boards to mitigate the wide trade balances between the two countries and give a new look to Chinese investment in India. Currently, Chinese investment in India is restrictive and barred from automatic […]