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Manila Standard | “Elbridge Colby, former US defense assistant secretary for strategy and force development, failed to specify what Xi and Duterte discussed at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Monday, but he described it as “misleading at best.””......
ANC | Elbridge Colby joins ANC to discuss the latest on relations between Manila and Washington, and responses to Beijing’s growing assertiveness.......
The Spectator | “Elbridge Colby, who developed the ‘National Defense Strategy’ in Trump’s first term, said it would be ‘ill-advised’ to let Ukraine join the alliance. Nato is strong enough. There isn’t much benefit......
TIME | “We can hope that there will soon be a just and durable end to this conflict, but predicating our strategy on such a hope would be imprudent. Rather, we must assume that Russia will remain a threat to Ukraine and NATO for the foreseeable future.......
The Economist | The America First movement is readying policies and personnel......
The Straits Times | The US spends roughly US$900 billion (S$1.23 trillion) annually on its military, as much as the next 10 countries combined....
Foreign Policy | "NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept took an important first step by recognizing China as a security challenge, but now the alliance needs to translate that into concrete actions.......
Noahpinion | Whether Xi Jinping thinks a war would help shore up his legitimacy in the face of various policy failures, or whether Chinese nationalistic sentiment demands that the leadership take aggressive action, or whether .....
Foreign Affairs | Although the war has done a lot to get western Europe serious about defense, NATO remains bound by many of the same old self-created constraints......
The Times of Israel | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to visit China later this year have drawn criticism from a number of quarters, but whether close allies are in favor of Israel visiting Beijing is the wrong lens for viewing US alliances in this renewed era of superpower rivalry......