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(Russia/USA) Disarray in Washington Catches Moscow off Guard (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian Federation Council foreign affairs committee chair Konstantin Kosachev (Source: 112.international) While a group of right-wing Donald Trump supporters caused havoc in Washington, DC, on...

(Arctic) Deep Dive Debrief: Strategic Stability and Competition in the Arctic (Rebecca Hersman, Eric Brewer, Maxwell Simon, CSIS)

The Arctic is growing in geostrategic importance and potentially becoming yet another zone for strategic competition, as this previously impenetrable territory becomes increasingly accessible...

(USA/CHINA/RUSSIA) The Biden Transition and U.S. Competition with China and Russia: The Crisis-Driven Need to Change U.S. Strategy (Anthony H. Cordesman with the assistance...

The U.S. needs to fundamentally reassess its approach to competing and cooperating with China and Russia. Its present path has tilted more and more...

(USA) Remove and Ban Trump Now (Jan-Werner Mueller, Project-Syndicate)

Although it is a serious matter to deny individuals their basic civil rights, outgoing US President Donald Trump richly deserves such a punishment. For...

(USA) The Return of US Intelligence (Kent Harrington, Project-Syndicate)

For four years, the Trump administration has undermined the credibility and morale of the US intelligence community, leaving President-elect Joe Biden's national-security team with...

(Nepal) High hopes for Nepal derailed by 2020 (Sujeev Shakya, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/08/high-hopes-for-nepal-derailed-by-2020/

(Cambodia) Cambodia’s uncertain economic rebound in 2021 (Heidi Dahles, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/07/cambodias-uncertain-economic-rebound-in-2021/

(USA) Invoke the 25th Amendment to save the country from Donald Trump (John Hudak, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/01/07/invoke-the-25th-amendment-to-save-the-country-from-donald-trump/

(China) – Lagging but motivated: The state of China’s semiconductor industry (Christopher A. Thomas, Brookings)

Attendees examine semiconductor products exhibited at the 2020 World Semiconductor Conference in Nanjing, China, on August 26, 2020. Song Ning/Oriental Image With advanced semiconductors key...

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