Publications

July 4, 2023

The Threat of A US-China War Requires A US-Israel Reset

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......
July 3, 2023

American Grand Strategy, Realism, and the Russo-Ukraine War

Die Zeit | Therefore the burden of helping Ukraine should shift to the Europeans. According to Colby they have not yet done enough ‘to both rearm themselves and arm Ukraine consistent with what strategic reality requires.’.....
June 21, 2023

As U.S. and China spiral toward strife, they give diplomatic peace a chance

CBC | High-level dialogue is fine, said Elbridge Colby. But what's not fine, in his view, is the U.S. chasing after détente, on terms chosen by China. "I'm actually quite concerned," Colby told CBC News in an interview......
June 21, 2023

US-Made Air Defense System Cleared To Deploy In South Korea, Angering China

The Daily Caller | “When you’re too important to be ignored, it’s best to align and strengthen your defenses so you don’t end up as a battlefield,” Elbridge Colby, principal of The Marathon Initiative and former U.S....
June 21, 2023

Prime Minister’s meeting with a group of US think tank experts

Narendra Modi | Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met experts from several leading US think-tanks, today, in New York, USA.......
June 21, 2023

Biden calling Xi a dictator is his latest ad-lib to anger a foreign capital

The Washington Post | Elbridge Colby, a senior defense official under President Donald Trump, said Biden’s comments Tuesday were insufficiently forceful. He cited a point in Biden’s remarks at the fundraiser when he said, “Don’t worry about China. I mean, worry about China, but don’t worry about China.”.......
June 17, 2023

China Respects Power…We Must Not Be Swayed By Sloppy Diplomacy

VOA Korea | While the provocative remarks of Chinese Ambassador to Korea Xing Haiming are shaking up relations between Korea and China, former high-ranking US officials urged South Korea to respond firmly to China's 'poor diplomacy'.....
June 15, 2023

How to respond to the “crustal changes” caused by the U.S. and China, the bridged role required for Japan” // 米中が引き起こす「地殻変動」にどう対応 日本に求められる橋渡し役

Asahi | However, at the "Asian Security Conference (Changri-La Dialogue)" held in Singapore on the 2nd to 4th, the U.M. and China insisted that "dialogue is necessary",.....
June 7, 2023

The Chinese must have thought about the possible use of nuclear weapons” (Article in German)

Die Welt | “Political adviser Elbridge Colby co-founded the Washington think tank ‘Marathon Initiative’ and worked under the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018 as deputy sub-secretary in the Pentagon....