Critics of Beijing argue that China is increasingly pursuing a strategy aimed at changing the regional territorial, political, and institutional status quo. But China is not the only revisionist power in East Asia: for decades,[…]
US alliances under the Trump Administration
Donald Trump campaigned on a platform opposing the international order built on US leadership, multilateral institutions, and US alliances. On January 31 I apoke at Chatham House at a conference examining “Alliance Policies in a[…]
Abe and Obama: Raising the Past
With the Japanese Prime Minister’s Dec 27 visit to Pearl Harbor, plus President Obama’s historic trip to Hiroshima last May, we see a remarkable change in the US-Japan alliance in recent years. For decades, the[…]