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BBC Newshour | President Biden and China's leader, Xi Jinping, have held an extensive video summit that contained moments of warmth -- but also warnings....
The Vandenberg Coalition | On Monday, November 15, 2021, the Vandenberg Coalition held a discussion on U.S. policy toward China with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development Elbridge Colby, moderated by Vandenberg Coalition board member and former Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger.....
RealClear Politics | According to Elbridge Colby, the single most important fact about China today is that it is a great power that seeks regional hegemony in Asia, the globe’s fastest-growing economic region and home to more than half of the world’s population......
L’Express | What could an armed conflict between the two superpowers look like? Elbridge Colby outlines a possible future......
The Spectator | How would America respond if China attacked Taiwan? The pressure to defend the island would be compelling, if not overwhelming.....
Nikkei Asia | "If China annexes Taiwan, it will undoubtedly militarize the island," said Elbridge Colby, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development. ".....
Providence Magazine | During Providence‘s Christianity and National Security Conference, Elbridge Colby discussed US-China relations.....
The Brookings Institution | The 2018 National Defense Strategy was the first time the Pentagon identified China as the organizing focus of U.S. defense policy. Elbridge Colby, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, was a key architect of that document.....
Financial Times | What might a coming era of ever more intense competition between the two superpowers look like? And is actual armed conflict between them, once viewed as unthinkable, now more likely than not? ......
The Critic | Despite some such unanswered questions, The Strategy of Denial is a terrific new contribution to the literature. Colby is right to point out that there are limitations on what the US can do, and that it is time for threat prioritisation and trade-offs: this is a vital injection of realism to an American strategic debate sorely in need of it....