I attended the forum held at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan outlined the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy and its priorities, as the world braces for global challenges such as climate change and “competition between major powers” in areas that include the economic aspect.
The “China tariffs” are under review. The U.S. trade representative (USTR) is looking into whether President Trump’s Section 301 tariffs, which remain in place under President Biden, are “effective” or not. No need to wait for the study. The answer has long been clear: No.
In this op-ed, Jack Weinstein, a Pardee School of Global Studies professor of the practice of international security, argues that the United States’ strategic tunnel vision is clouding our thinking on what it means to keep America safe. “We’re missing critical components of a comprehensive security strategy,” he writes. Weinstein says there are three things the country needs to do to improve national security: resourcing education as a national imperative; acknowledging America’s broken democracy; and making sure that every citizen is treated equally, regardless of income.
The People’s Republic of China’s intent to reshape the international order is the United States’ biggest geopolitical challenge for the next decade, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday. Beijing presents an “increasingly global challenge,” not only to the United States but also to nations that want to preserve a rules-based order of international relations, […]
The world has entered a new epoch and the US will need to defend its way of life from Chinese and Russian authoritarianism, according to a U.S. official.