Trump’s Taiwan policy endangers peace and stability between the Taiwan Strait and risks causing catastrophe in China-US relations. Tsai Ing-wen should not mistake Trump’s policy as US support for Taiwanese independence and should see it as it is: a way to hedge against the mainland.

A technological cold-war seems to have arisen alongside the China-US trade war, but this may not be a sustainable long-term strategy. If this continues, wagers of the tech cold war can expect to face consequences.

While the Venezuela-U.S. relationship has worsened, Venezuela-China ties have become closer. But Venezuela-China relations date back before Chávez and socialist ideology took hold in Venezuela, and today the U.S. is not happy to see that China is gaining a foothold in its backyard.

US delegates met with the Taliban this month in what resulted in the most comprehensive discussions between the two sides to date. Despite this progress, no breakthroughs were made, and negotiators must persist. Patience is a necessary attribute when on a course towards peace.

Deterrence will not be enough.

Without agreement as to what constitutes legitimate cybersecurity policy, Washington and Beijing risk thwarting trade, opportunities for collaboration, and technological progress.

A Philippine subsidiary to a shipbuilding giant recently declared bankruptcy. Seeing what happened to Sri Lanka’s prized Hambantota port, some Filipino strategists fear that the Subic Bay Freeport Zone might suffer the same fate.

The Trump administration wants to constrain China’s rise — even if America must pay a steep price for severing forty years of U.S.-China linkage.

Kim Jong-un is committed to denuclearization. Here’s why.

Washington’s stubborn demand for complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea is the principal risk that the upcoming second summit next month may end in failure. Washington needs to abandon the utopian objective of complete denuclearization and pursue a more realistic objective.