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CSIS | Ely Ratner is interviewed by CSIS' Victor Cha about China's Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit and Victory Day Parade, as well as Beijing's recent engagement with Russia and North Korea........
CNN | "The Japanese weren’t there, the Europeans weren’t there, [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] was there for the [Tianjin summit] but he left before the parade, which I think was no accident"........
The National Interest | The recent hardening of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s position on Ukraine has led some critics to claim that the Trump meeting in Anchorage was a waste of time......
War on the Rocks | War on the Rocks founder Ryan Evans interviews Wess Mitchell about sequencing in U.S. strategy..........
Foreign Policy | The State Department is in urgent need of reform. Over the past three decades, it has expanded its remit into countless functions and causes that are well outside its core mission. This is not just an inefficient use of taxpayer resources.........
Washington Post | The “simultaneity problem,” as it’s known in military circles, has been the most serious grand strategic challenge facing the United States for some time now.........
The New Yorker | “I don’t share the fear of some Europeans that the United States is out to abandon them, but if that fear leads them to finally take defense more seriously, then maybe it’s not a bad thing. I’ve yet to see anything else that works.”........
Financial Times | "Ely Ratner, the top Biden administration Pentagon Indo-Pacific official, said Aukus would arm “one of our closest allies with an advanced capability that will be critical in deterring and defeating Chinese aggression."........
CNN | The reality is the United States is facing a generational challenge from China. We have a government there that is making enormous investments in its military and has very clear objectives to dominate Asia and the Indo-Pacific in a way that would be quite harmful to U.S. interests........
New York Times | Ely Ratner, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., suggested in a recent essay in Foreign Affairs that the United States and its allies in Asia should form a collective defense pact, similar to NATO..........