US expands footprint in Indo-Pacific with new base and troop rotations
Center Senior Fellow Grant Newsham was quoted extensively in this piece by Andrew Thornebrooke. The United States is seeking to...
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Japan’s defense awakening: Woke enough?
Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) submitted a record defense budget request this year. What is the significance of this? An...
Grant Newsham: Asian perspectives on the Chinese challenge
Center Senior Fellow, Grant Newsham, joined the Westminster Institute to discuss the challenge the Chinese Communist Party poses to the...
Biden should act promptly to engage with Pyongyang
From the moment US President Joe Biden entered the White House, foreign crises have left his administration with barely enough...
Did Milley’s China call cause lasting damage to US national security?
Milley needs to step aside and face discipline because his continued presence as the nation’s top military officer is a...
China went to war a long time ago, but the US didn’t (want to) notice
President Joseph Biden spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the phone last week. Biden’s stated objective: To establish “guardrails”...
Biden announces joint deal with UK and Australia to counter China
President Joe Biden just announced a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies — including the...
North Korean weapons advance; negotiations stalled
The Biden administration wants 'discussions' on Pyongyang's nuclear program, but the regional situation is extremely complex Negotiating with North Korea...
China erases Taiwan at Venice International Film Festival
For the first time in decades, Taiwan wasn’t represented at the Venice International Film Festival (VIFF). In a new development...
China sends advanced warships near Alaska
A fleet of four ships from China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was recently photographed cruising towards a US Exclusive...
US, allies must surge forces to show support to Taiwan
America’s credibility lies in tatters following the defeat in Afghanistan. The Pentagon must surge forces to the seas off Southeast...
The Eurasian steel trap is closing
In the shadows of America’s strategic defeat in Afghanistan—the epicenter of her Twenty Years’ War against Islamist extremism—an authoritarian steel...
Japan–Taiwan ‘security’ talks: Something new and significant
Change comes slowly in Japan–especially when it involves national defense. But sometimes something happens that causes one to raise an...
Washington Post: My, that declassified report on COVID-19’s origins is ‘sparse’
I’m glad that the Washington Post editorial board has not forgotten about the questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and declared...
Taiwan, Japan urged to ‘stand together’ as China threat prompts security talks
Editor's Note: Center Senior Fellow Grant Newsham was quoted in this piece by John Feng on Japan and Taiwan's military...
Americans broadly favor active measures to counter China’s aggressive moves against Taiwan
Editor's note: The Center for Security Policy gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with tippinsights on the simultaneous and exclusive release of this...