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Viral Fearmongers
The Totalitarian Temptation Resisted

National emergencies in the West do not breed despots, and haven’t for some time. The press should take note.

Expert Advice
Diagnosing America’s Pandemic Response

How mental habits and ideology may have led government officials astray in the early days of the outbreak.

Buyer Beware
How China’s Mask Diplomacy Backfired

Its defective “gifts” reflect a defective regime—and the world is beginning to notice.

TAI Conversations
Robert B. Zoellick: “We Tried Autarky in the 1930s. It Didn’t Work Very Well”

The former President of the World Bank argues that advocates of “decoupling” with China are missing the larger challenge—and that today’s crisis calls for adaptation, not a retreat to autarky.

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Oral History
The Forgotten Women of the Gulag

A new book by Monika Zgustova brings the harrowing, heartbreaking history of the Soviet Gulag’s female prisoners to life.

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A View from Japan
The Virtues of a Confrontational China Strategy

A Japanese official criticizes aspects of the Trump Administration’s confrontational approach to China, but on balance finds it preferable in almost every way to Obama’s engagement and accommodation.

Pacific Perspective
Countering China’s Grand Narratives

Americans tend to focus more on China’s size and strength than its vulnerabilities. In doing so, they play right into Beijing’s hands.

Fiscal Folly
Don’t Slash the Defense Budget to Pay for COVID-19

Coping with the pandemic will be a costly affair. But cutting defense spending—when China, Russia, and Iran remain significant threats—will only make us less secure.

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Hypersonic Weapons
COVID-19 and the Weapons of the Future

The coronavirus outbreak is straining U.S. deterrence and power projection abilities—and revealing our glaring vulnerabilities in the realm of hypersonic weapons.

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Beyond Free Markets
COVID-19’s Threat to Energy Security

As we are now learning the hard way, maintaining strategic stockpiles of masks and ventilators isn’t enough. The same could be said of oil.

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