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Dec 12, 2025

Iran poses challenges to a National Security Strategy ready to move on

By Nate Swanson

If, as its new strategy suggests, the White House wants to spend less time on Iran, then it has three options—and one is better than the others.

Iran Middle East

Dispatches

Dec 12, 2025

Dispatch from Beijing: Both China and the US think they have the advantage. Only one can be right.

By Melanie Hart

US policymakers must understand exactly how the China model is working if the United States is going to compete effectively with it.

China Economy & Business

Dispatches

Dec 10, 2025

Dispatch from Iraq: The biggest challenge awaiting the country’s next prime minister

By Victoria J. Taylor 

A recent visit to Iraq following parliamentary elections reveals a growing divide between the political elite and the people.

Elections Iraq

Dispatches

Dec 10, 2025

Dispatch from New Delhi: Another India-China flare-up is coming

By Michael Kugelman, Srujan Palkar

China’s recent detainment of an Indian national from a disputed area is a reminder that efforts to ease bilateral tensions can only go so far.

Dispatches

Dec 10, 2025

Why exporting advanced chips to China endangers US AI leadership

By Tess deBlanc-Knowles

Allowing Chinese companies to purchase high-end AI chips risks degrading the United States’s current edge in aggregate computing power.

Artificial Intelligence China

Dispatches

Nov 24, 2025

Dispatch from Taipei: Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back

By Markus Garlauskas

A recent visit to Taiwan reveals how the government, the armed forces, and the citizens there are strengthening both their capability and resolve to defend themselves from Chinese aggression.

China Indo-Pacific

Dispatches

Nov 20, 2025

China’s new five-year plan should be a wake-up call for the United States

By Robert Hormats

The United States now faces the most formidable economic and technology competitor it has encountered in nearly a hundred years.

China Economy & Business

Dispatches

Nov 19, 2025

How we women of Afghanistan are defying Taliban repression

By Sara

Recounting her own ordeals with the Taliban, an Afghan woman shares how each new restriction pushes women and girls further into confinement.

Afghanistan Human Rights

Dispatches

Nov 17, 2025

As elections loom, can Netanyahu balance Trump, Mohammed bin Salman, and his political future?

By Daniel B. Shapiro

The Israeli prime minister wants show Israeli voters that he is advancing their country’s regional integration and staying within the US president’s embrace.

Israel Middle East

Dispatches

Nov 10, 2025

Dispatch from Baghdad: Don’t confuse the calm around Iraq’s election with stability

By Yerevan Saeed

Iraqi society faces several slow-burning stressors, from water and climate problems to over-centralization and narcotics trafficking.

Democratic Transitions Elections