The US and China should consider how collaborating on technology, particularly in helping the Global South, will yield more benefits than a zero-sum race to decouple
Delhi has a strong case to be the natural leader of the Indo-Pacific – Whether the Americans agree may shape the future of the India-US partnership in the region
The novel framework bringing together Australia, India, Japan and the US is a partnership in search of a purpose
The recent flurry of diplomacy by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol indicates that Seoul is intent on implementing its new Indo-Pacific Strategy
The Japanese prime minister and US president showed strategic unity on countering China but their convergence did not make Japan’s balancing challenge any easier
Alejandro Reyes of the Asia Global Institute argues that China and the US can move towards a competitive and cooperative working rivalry
The Jeddah summit exposed the diminished influence of the US in the Middle East and how oblivious Washington apparently is to the changes playing out in the Arab world.
The virtual summit between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden last November has signaled the possibility of better communication and more effective diplomacy between both countries
Washington must consider India’s key role in challenging China, both within and outside the emerging Quad framework
Washington hopes such a deal would be a powerful counterweight to China’s efforts to impose its own digital standards in the region.
The US is pushing a democratic values-driven foreign-policy strategy that it hopes can make multilateralism work again.
Neither Moon Jae-in nor Joe Biden would be fully satisfied with the outcomes but their Washington meeting was a welcome return of mature diplomacy.
The aim: to reopen the doors to diplomacy and, in the long term, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The pitfalls of a US Indo-Pacific strategy
While their main emphasis will be on domestic regeneration, the Biden team will be prepared to work with allies to rebuild international economic cooperation.
Challenges include competing interests, friction generated by US-China rivalry, and the abiding importance states place on asserting national interests over common goals.
The new president’s advantage, according to Mumbai-born journalist and author Salil Tripathi, is his experience and maturity.
The new president will have to “detrumpify” or depoliticize the bureaucracy to restore sobriety, professionalism and expertise to the conduct of foreign policy
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