Joseph Bosco

November 29, 2024
Trump Can Deter Chinese Aggression Against Taiwan
Last week, the Brookings Institution held a security conference with Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command — the U.S. military arm charged...
October 16, 2024
Today’s Axis of Evil Is Bigger & More Dangerous Than Ever
Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently expressed mild but potentially consequential confusion regarding the nature and scope of America’s proclaimed...
October 2, 2024
The U.S. Is Failing Ukraine
Former President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban in 2019 partially set the stage for President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from...
September 25, 2024
Meetings Alone Will Not Stop Chinese Aggression
Jake Sullivan’s visit to Beijing last month was the first by a U.S. national security adviser in eight years. The purpose of the trip was to address rising...
August 29, 2024
Will Harris Continue Biden’s Foreign Policy Mistakes?
If Kamala Harris becomes president five months from now, the first challenge she is likely to confront as commander-in-chief is the growing danger from at least four...
August 15, 2024
Taiwan Needs Unambiguous Protection, Now
History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories....
July 17, 2024
The NATO Summit Was No Great Success
After the NATO summit concluded in Washington last week, President Biden said there was a “consensus that it was a great success.” But that was only...
June 12, 2024
The Dangers of Taiwan’s ‘Strategic Ambiguity’
When Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, in Singapore late last month, he was treated to the usual litany of preemptive Beijing...
May 15, 2024
A Lesson From World War II: Appeasement Never Works
Will today’s Cold War confrontation end auspiciously, the way the first one did, or will it slide through strategic miscalculations on both sides into a third world...
April 23, 2024
Denying Cold War II, Fearing World War III
Western leaders are deeply reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: we are already enmeshed in a new Cold War. More precisely, the authoritarian regimes in Russia, China,...

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