Also at the Diplomat, a bit about the efforts of some South Korean firms to disentangle themselves from the Chinese market: The SCMP report describing the decision-making of firms such as Lotte and
Over at the Diplomat I write a bit about a recent CNAS report on China, and how thinking about China has driven trends in US military procurement: Work and Grant relate a series of arguments that will
Shit is going down today with respect to Turkey’s participation in the F-35 program. The first S-400 systems are arriving today, and the Pentagon is (shockingly enough) preparing a public respon
On the latest LGM Podcast, Charli and I talk through some of the implications of her research into the tolerance of Americans for inflicting enemy civilian casualties. We go over many of the themes th
Someone in comments noted that my recent posts have talked about the concept of “weaponized interdependence.” Dan has discussed weaponized interdependence before; it’s the idea (coin
This is ugly. Venezuelan special forces have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipulated crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resistin
Japan and South Korea are starting to grump at each other in consequential ways… One of the world’s most important trade relationships may have hit the rocks. According to the Wall Street Jou
The Trump administration may be struggling a bit to enforce compliance with its ban against Huawei: Is the U.S. already struggling to force companies to comply with its ban on trade with the Chinese f