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For Asia, There Is No Return to the Status Quo Ante In recent years, a series of shocks has rattled the global economy and exposed how quickly vulnerabilities can spread through interconnected markets. The COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea all had immediate impacts for supply

When I was a kid, long before the age of streaming and binge-watching, television shows had a reliable trick to keep viewers tuned in: build the audience to a fever pitch of suspense throughout an episode, then flash those three maddening words, to be continued. The recent meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi in Beijing played

One of the major bipartisan pursuits within the U.S. government over the last two decades has been to redirect military, diplomatic, commercial, and strategic pursuits away from the Middle East and towards the dominant theater of the 21st century: the Indo-Pacific. Indeed, one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement in recent years has been

As the Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for the Trump administration’s most sweeping tariffs last Friday, the world’s leading players on AI were in New Delhi wrapping up a weeklong summit, the outgrowths of which may prove at least as consequential for the global economy. The AI Impact Summit in New Delhi is

As the next steps for U.S. foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific were debated at the outset of the Biden administration, key players conspired to elevate the format and ambitions of the Quad as a forum for cooperation among the region’s four major maritime democracies: the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. In private consultations about

    I visited Asia for the first time as a young naval officer in the late 1980s. There on the joint base in Yokosuka, Japan, I experienced a vivid sense of how the past and future were colliding across this vast region. U.S. and Japanese sailors were laboring together in the very harbor that