Indo-Pacific

No, Xi’s visit to Riyadh wasn’t because of bad US-Saudi relations. It’s about much more.

By Jonathan Fulton

Given the bad state of US-Saudi relations, it is natural to see Xi’s visit in the context of geopolitical competition between Washington and Beijing, but that framework misses the bigger picture.

State of the Order: Assessing November 2022

The State of the Order breaks down the month's most important events impacting the democratic world order.

Investing in innovation can help NATO rally Asian democracies

By Giedrimas Jeglinskas

The NATO Innovation Fund, the world’s first multi-sovereign venture capital fund, offers the Alliance a unique opportunity to mobilize other democratic countries.

The National Defense Strategy shows the Pentagon’s increased focus on the gray zone. Here’s what that means.

By Gray Zone Task Force experts

The DOD is officially recognizing that competitors’ coercive and malign activities in the gray zone present a challenge to US security. What does this mean for US strategy in the years ahead?

What Xi Jinping’s Saudi Arabia visit means for the Middle East

By Atlantic Council experts

The Chinese leader's trip for a series of summits with countries from around the Middle East cemented dozens of deals with a good bit of pageantry. Our experts lay out what comes next.