Thomas Spoehr and Maiya Clark
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Supporting Ukraine’s self-defense is in America’s interest, but provision of military and financial aid should not undermine U.S. efforts to deter China. Potential conflict between these two key security interests is looming, and the United States should act now to manage this tension or risk strategic failure.
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American statecraft didn’t keep Russia’s Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine. It didn’t stop China‘s Xi Jinping from building an archipelago of man-made islands in disputed regions of the South China Sea, nor did it deter him from firing missiles over Taiwan last summer. But an adept American foreign policy should have been able to deter these events.
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Peter Brookes and Jim Phillips
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Iran and Russia are offsetting their deepening international isolation by stepping up their bilateral military, foreign policy, and economic cooperation. Washington must develop an overarching framework for undermining the power of both, penalizing dangerous cooperation between the two.
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Brent Sadler and Peter St Onge
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Over the past 30 years, the U.S. has gradually ceded its economic security by increasing its reliance on other nations’ shipping and shipbuilding—including China’s. The U.S. must regain global competitiveness in shipping and shipbuilding, while ensuring that the U.S. Navy remains a credible deterrent.
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For years, China complained about the development and deployment of American missile defenses, a capability that Beijing didn’t have and claimed would undermine strategic stability and security in Asia. Now, China’s Defense Ministry reported earlier this month that one of its missile defense systems had conducted a “ground-based midcourse missile interception test.”
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