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July 2, 2018 National Commentaries
Opening a Strategic Pandora’s Jar? US-China Uncertainties and the Three Wandering Genies in Southeast Asia

Uncertainty is nothing new in US-China relations. Indeed, it is a constant feature of all big power relationships. However, recent US-China interactions under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

BRI, Doklam, free and open Indo-Pacific, G7, Quad, RIMPAC, SCO
October 26, 2016 Open Forum
Balancing China: Moving Beyond the Containment Fallacy

At a multinational defense forum with ASEAN nations’ defense ministers in late September, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter repeated his call for like-minded nations to “catalyze the […]

Adam P. Liff

ASEAN, China threat theory, containment, deep engagement, Maritime Security Initiative, rebalance, RIMPAC, Shangri-La 2016, South China Sea
August 12, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II: India’s Balance of Interest in the Asian Century

By outlining the nuances propelling India’s diplomatic and military engagements in recent weeks, this article argues that each nation in the India-US-Japan trilateral design is guided by its […]

Titli Basu

BRICS, East China Sea, India-US-Japan, Nuclear Suppliers’ Group, RIMPAC, SCO, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
May 26, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

After a 2014 filled with both symbolically and practically important developments in US-China military-to-military relations, what does 2015 hold for ties between the two countries’ armed forces? Is […]

Scott W. Harold

Cobra Gold, RIMPAC