Emerging Risks

The Atlantic Council’s Mark Massa says there is no debate that China’s nuclear build-up is alarming.This comes after the US confirmed China to be testing hyp...

The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military capabilities confirms that Beijing’s days of maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent are over. Along with several other concerning military developments, the report makes clear that China is headed toward becoming a nuclear peer (or surpassing) the United States and Russia—a state of affairs for which U.S. nuclear forces are wholly unprepared.

David J. Trachtenberg, Back to the Future: A Misguided Understanding of China’s Nuclear Intent, No. 507, November 4, 2021 Download PDF David J. Trachtenberg is Vice President of th

The government’s approach to strategic competition is problematic, but there are military, technological, interagency, and combined approaches that would help.

After the discovery during the summer of what appears to be at least three vast missile silo fields under construction near Yumen, Hami, and Ordos in north-central China, new commercial satellite images show significant progress at the three sites as well as at the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Fo

A top Taiwan security official told lawmakers on Thursday that China had internally debated whether to attack Taiwan's Pratas Islands but will not do so before 2024, the year President Tsai Ing-wen's term ends.

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Evergrande has laid bare Beijing’s secret: structural weaknesses are sending China into decline.

A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one.

"The rampant speculation has linked the request for food stocks to rising tensions between Beijing and Taipei." In the background sits the real risk of a big war. ... Read more

The Chinese Communist Party publication said tensions could lead to "a life-and-death struggle" forcing the U.S. to sacrifice "the lives of Americans."

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The self-ruled island has moved to the heart of deepening discord and rivalry between the two superpowers, with the potential to ignite military conflagration and reshape the regional order.

A cold war between the United States and China is obviously not desirable, nor is it necessarily inevitable. But it is very difficult to see how Beijing and Washington, either individually or

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Recent images of some of the thousands of Haitians (and others) making their difficult trek north through Central America, toward the U.S.

Trump’s charges of fraud in 2020 are not about looking back, as many Republicans insist. They are about establishing the predicate to challenge future election results more effectively.

Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a halt

Sunday's IDF operation dismantled a terror initiative that had damage potential similar to the Second Intifada, making Hamas's intention crystal clear.

It is concentrated by place, among individuals, and at certain times.

China's ascent to No. 1 isn't a sure-fire bet.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the world has just been given a “frightening reminder” China is a country “run by gangsters” following a prisoner swap the communist superpower conducted with Canada. Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the boss of the telecommunications giant Huawei, was arrested three years ago in Canada because she was wanted by the United States for alleged fraud. Mr Bolt said China arrested and imprisoned two Canadians in response and "falsely accused them of being spies". “But last week Canada and the US finally gave in," Mr Bolt said. "They came up with some legal funny business, an excuse to free Meng Wanzhou, without a trial, not with her present at any rate, and she returned to China to a hero's welcome, choreographed by the Chinese dictatorship. “Then China having won, as a reward to Canada and the US released its Canadian hostages.” Mr Bolt discussed the issue with Griffith University Asia Institute Industry Fellow Rowan Callick.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday said Iran has crossed all nuclear “red lines” and vowed to stop the country from acquiring nuclear weapons — even if it means Israel must act alone.

Lack of cold war-style checks between Washington and Beijing means there is scope for miscalculation

The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.

The leaders of the world's biggest economies want to know what's next for the Quad. A very complex computer algorithm may have delivered the answer.

History says no civilization last forever, so which of the world's ten most powerful nations will be the first to collapse?

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Beijing’s relentless drive to transform itself into a global power places it in direct competition with the U.S. That has affected both nations’ relations with regional powers, such as Rus