The Indo-Pacific’s Dangerous Transition: Maritime Power and Strategic Fragmentation

The U.S. and China are seeking managed competition, but Tokyo and Washington’s regional allies fear the balance may not hold.

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The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month was a hopeful sign that a strategic understanding is possible between the world’s sole superpower and its largest industrial plant. The Trump administration’s view, detailed in December in its National Security Strategy and in January in its National Defense Strategy, […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari