I agree with Stephen Kinzer (“China gives us a taste of our own medicine,” Ideas, Jan. 9). No nation on earth ever had as many bases outside its country as the United States. Yet despite the fact that our nation […]

Joint military exercises and technology sharing are seen as tools in to limit U.S. might abroad

2021 saw the two countries draw closer together than ever in recent years, with bilateral trade surpassing pre-pandemic levels and cooperation on the energy front. Most outstanding, however, was military collaboration, which could deepen next year.

Upon taking office, US President Joe Biden had an opportunity to engineer a reset in international relations, engaging constructively with China and Russia to figure out how to manage the new multipolar world. His administration has done the opposite, apparently believing that America is still the global hegemon.

Japan, India and the US need to address Russian anxieties

US deploying tripwires rather than building guardrails in moves that are strengthening the Sino-Russian quasi-alliance.

If a dialogue produces positive results then of course such dialogue should be pursued earnestly. That’s a general rule.

Washington shouldn’t be surprised, after years of building and leading security bulwarks against both countries.

It is a very old story. Even when slave owing was legal in the United States before the American Civil War (1861-65), the country insisted on presenting itself as a democratic model to the world. Not even the bloodiest civil war ever fought to that point by any European or North American country changed its self-regard in this respect.

As Britain prepares to host the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow next month, it is pursuing two contradictory policies that undermine its chances of success. On the one hand, it is seeking a unified global response to the climate crisis with nations agreeing to targets for the reduction of their coal and petroleum emissions. But at the same time, it has joined the US in escalating a new cold war directed at confronting China and Russia at every turn.