Chinese foreign policy is becoming increasingly aggressive and while the Obama administration is sending the right message in response, there is still a chance to present China with a choice: act like a responsible power or face a great wall of resistance.
The signing of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement by Taiwan and China is a welcome development as it starts Taiwan on a path toward becoming the region's business hub, which could immeasurably improve the nation's security.
The strategic requirements of the United States necessitate more military investment in the Asia-Pacific on an expedited schedule, as well as creative strategic thinking about building alliances with countries that are already funding their own military modernization programs.
The mass appeal of China's "market-authoritarianism" is undermining the West, and America must do a better job of standing up for the benefits of a model built around free markets, free societies, and open investment and trade.
The U.S. military should maintain a more defendable presence on the territory of as many U.S. Asian allies as welcomed, until all can be assured that China will be a responsible and democratic great power, uninterested in creating its own exclusive economic or military spheres.
The United States must serious evaluate China's military buildup, as it is undoubtedly becoming a challenge to America and our allies.
China's leaders are calculating that it pays to be populist and anti-Western, but they are well aware of how many of its citizens are unhappy with a government whose rule is marked by increasing levels of corruption and inequality.
The U.S. and Chinese governments will not work together for peace in South Asia; rather, India and the United States should cooperate to end China's regional troublemaking.
One of the major criticisms of President Barack Obama's foreign policy is that he does not care about it, especially if it gets in the way of his domestic agenda.
Public and elite opinion now consists of a mix of anger at the Chinese regime for its corruption, inequality, and brutality; national pride; and aggrieved nationalism.
This is not just a change in India's military doctrine--it is a reflection of America's declining power in Asia.
To succeed in Asia Washington must keep up healthy alliances, maintain a favorable military balance of power, and encourage free trade and economic liberalization.
The Obama administration is now undeniably following a policy of appeasement with China.
If we are sacrificing pro-ally initiatives for the sake of better relations with China, it is not working.
Allowing the Kim regime to collapse is a better alternative than propping up a nuclear-armed dictatorship on the Korean peninsula.
Far Eastern Economic Review
December 3, 2009
As China continues to grow, the United States will have to maintain a balance of power in Asia that favors the maintenance and growth of liberalism--both political and economic--in the region.
We should not be surprised by China's positions. What is surprising--and extremely problematic--is that on these key issues Obama is acquiescing in them.
The Obama administration's worldview is still emerging, but its policies toward Russia and China are already revealing.
Overall, President Obama's Asia policy has been largely driven by events and domestic priorities rather than by an overarching strategic vision.
John Pomfret's front page article in the Washington Post on the Obama administration's arm twisting of the Dalai Lama is further reason to doubt that the president's "strategic reassurance" policy is anything but a policy of appeasing the PRC.
How will a sea change in Japan's politics affect U.S.-Japanese relations? A bumpier road for sure, but opportunities as well.
AEI Online
August 3, 2009
This report is designed to help generate serious reflections on how best to preserve the ROC's own accomplishments as a people and a government and to enable it to choose its own future as free of coercion as possible.
America should need and want its allies to enhance their air and naval power.
China's military build-up is driven by domestic factors, the desire for national prestige, and the insecurity of the Chinese Communist Party.
Kim Jong Il and his cronies want nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
Though U.S. commitment seems to have waned, an American military presence in the Asia-Pacific region is as important as ever.
A weaker U.S. military will undermine stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Washington cannot allow Pyongyang to continue to create a rift in the U.S.-Japanese alliance.
China dislikes the rules of maritime behavior written when it was less powerful. How will the United States respond?
The secretary of state has important business in four different countries.
President Barack Obama can dispose of the Cold War baggage that has guided U.S.-Chinese relations for the last three decades.
AEI Online
January 12, 2009
The foreign policy issues President Obama faces are taking place against the backdrop of something even bigger: a massive shift in the distribution of global wealth and power toward Asia.
President-elect Barack Obama can revitalize the Japanese alliance by selling the F-22 fifth generation fighter aircraft to Japan.
China has received a clear signal that theUnited Stateslacks the will to stand by its allies in times of trouble, and Taiwan's security is suddenlymore precarious.
The Bush administration has not yet insisted upon any serious measures to verify the full scope and status of the North's nuclear weapons programs.
The Bush administration now appears unwilling to supply Taiwan with the weapons they were originally offered in 2001.
The tremendous increase in China's appetite for energy, and the response to this by regional powers, is changing the dynamics of international politics.
China is after more than just economic dominance, as it has continueda military buildup at a pace no one predicted.
The last three U.S. administrations have based their China policies on hopes about what China might someday become. It is time to face the reality of what China has already created.
Will the Beijing Olympics ultimately help or hurt the cause of freedom in China? Eight experts weigh in.
Nuclear proliferation is currently occurring in North Korea despite the efforts of the six parties. The North Koreans also may be giving information on nuclear weapons to Syria.
AEI Online
February 22, 2008
The report of the AEI/Armitage International Taiwan Policy Working Group.
There are many reasons to be optimistic about China. But the motives driving Chinese foreign policy remain dangerously opaque.
TheChinese Communist Partyis determined to maintain its power monopoly in a growing, restive society.
Two new books show that free markets are not leading to freedom in China.
A review of Kenneth B. Pyle's Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose.
China's growth and disagreement over North Korea threaten to set back the most important pan-Pacific alliance.
Why would the United Statesrecognize and support India's nuclear technology program,thus making a seemingly large concession on nonproliferation rules?
The road to Pyongyang runs through Beijing.
While the China’s National Defense in 2006 white paper should be primarily read as a piece of propaganda, it reveals invaluable insights into China’s thinking about the global strategic situation.
As China grows stronger, Washington isfailingto make clear that the Taiwan issue will be settled by mutual consent, not by coercion.
Together, the United States and Japan can cement their alliance, enhance Asian-Pacific security, and nudge China toward democratic and liberal transformation.
The Littoral Combat Ship will turn out to be more useful to the Navy than previously anticipated.
Conventional wisdom misreads the nature of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's nationalism and the positive effects it could have on Asia.
Kim Jong Il is doing what we have come to expect of him: threatening the world and engaging in nuclear brinkmanship.
North Korea claims it has successfully conducted a nuclear test. How significant is this? What should the U.S. do?
Conventional wisdom misreads the nature of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's nationalism and the positive effects it could have on Asia.
Washington has a vital interest in encouraging Taiwan to improve its defensive capabilities.
Richard Bush’s new book Untying the Knot helps clarify the complex intersection of U.S. interests in the Taiwan Strait.
Treating the talks with North Korea as virtually an end in themselves has accentuated China's role in the region at the expense of our most important Pacific ally, Japan.
Kim Jong Il's actions provide a refreshing clarity to the diplomatic charade known as the six-party talks.
Beijing is in a panic over the growing financial burden arising from soaring energy use, and panic does not make for good policy.
Is China a challenge to US control of the sea?
It is past time for America to get serious about deterring the potentially worst sorts of Chinese behavior.
Why was the Bush-Hu meeting, like a Seinfeld episode, a "summit about nothing"?
A National Review Online symposiumdiscussing President Bush's upcoming visit with Chinese President Hu.
Just how serious is America's culture clash with China?
The United States must make it a priority to prevent China from destroying American bilateral alliances.
Even while attention was focused on the more positive theme of US-India relations, a potential new crisis was brewing elsewhere in Asia, this time around Beijing and Taipei.
Is China taking over the world?
Washington Post
November 27, 2005
Ultimately, if the Bush Doctrine is not successfully applied to East Asia, and China can export its bad behavior to the Middle East, the strategy of promoting democracy will fail there, too.
AEI Online
November 17, 2005
The key to pushing the U.S.-Japanese alliance forward isto learn the right lessons from Japan’s participation in the global war on terror and to implement the agreements reached this year.
No matter how serious America is, how many talks it joins in Beijing, or how many inducements it is willing to offer to the DPRK, Kim Jong-Il will not rid himself of his weapons.
Taiwan is trying to complete a democratic transition in the face of a daunting military threat.
The idea that the Chen administration is not serious about defending Taiwan is largely a tale told by sinologists andofficials who wantan excuse for the problemof Taiwan to go away.
The Centre for Independent Studies
August 17, 2005
The warmth of U.S.-Australian ties since September 11, 2001 stands in stark contrast to the tension between Washington and some of its traditional transatlantic allies.
The United States is at a strategic crossroads when it comes to China, and not the other way around.
The Chinese grand strategy to emergeover time as the dominant power in Asiainvolves three elements: comprehensive national power, reassuring the region, and displacing the U.S.
In light ofthe ongoing development of China’s military power,removing an outdated restriction on defense cooperation with Taiwan is a sensible step to take.
The only viable option for the United States today is to pursue a strategy of containment and deterrence against the use or proliferation of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction.
AEI Online
April 29, 2005
To strenthen their alliance, the United States and Australia must now consider more substantive trilateral cooperation with Japan andbegin addressing how to respond to China's rise.
On his visit to China, KMT chairmanLien Chan will be discussing mattersthat fall clearly within the authority of the democratically elected government of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian.
Middle East Quarterly
April 1, 2005
The Chinese government has gambled that embracing Iran and Saudi Arabia in lucrative oil and weapons deals will buy it some protection from their export of political Islam.
Far Eastern Economic Review
April 1, 2005
Tokyo and Washington must recognize that the alliance transformation has only just begun.
U.S. policymakers should continue to support Japan's emergence as a strong American ally.
Washington Post
February 20, 2005
President Bushshould propose a U.S.-EU strategic dialogue to keep an eye on China's threat to regional security and its human rights and proliferation records.
National Review Online
January 27, 2005
Washington is signaling timidity toward Chinese bellicosity.
China has a new strategy for influencing Taiwan's elections, and this one seems to be working.
Washington Post
December 6, 2004
U.S. interests will not be advanced by an engagement policy with Beijing that values the atmospherics of a good relationship above all else.
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