Michael Auslin

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Why America’s democracy needs the British monarchy

30 April 2026 5:02 am

Perfect spring sunshine beamed down on King Charles III and Queen Camilla as they slowly made their way down the…

Eighty years later, World War II is fading from historical memory

29 October 2022 12:03 am

With worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and tension over Taiwan, it’s easy for Americans to forget that we…

Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail

27 October 2022 1:16 pm

Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons against the West in his war on…

What has Pelosi’s Taiwan trip wrought?

8 August 2022 12:31 am

In becoming the highest-ranking American politician to visit Taiwan in a quarter-century, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become the dominant…

What Ukraine means for Asia

18 April 2022 5:45 pm

If Asia has entered the debate over the war in Ukraine, it is primarily through questions over the role China…

Why China has its eye on the Falklands

16 April 2022 6:00 pm

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has paradoxically heightened China’s global reputation, if only because it has not yet invaded a…

What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?

2 March 2022 1:55 am

No one should think that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means that Xi Jinping will decide to use force against…

China and Russia are an alliance of disruptors

21 February 2022 4:00 pm

Four years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping made pancakes together in Vladivostok while thousands of their military forces conducted…

Alliance of disruptors

19 February 2022 9:00 am

The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing

The China reckoning

4 January 2022 3:15 am

Fifteen years ago, I remarked to an acquaintance over lunch that it looked like China might eat America’s lunch in…

Ending our corporate dependence on China

13 December 2021 2:39 pm

In the toxic world of American politics, the bipartisanship showed by the House of Representatives last week in overwhelmingly passing…

America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China

17 November 2021 1:22 pm

As recently as a week ago, there was talk that Monday night’s virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese…

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Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy

17 December 2020 1:48 am

While final negotiations on the UK’s relationship with the EU continue to drag, No. 10 is moving rapidly to expand…

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Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations

12 May 2020 2:18 am

Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…

The world puts an * next to China

29 April 2020 7:09 pm

When Donald Trump publicly called into question China’s Covid-19 death rate claims at a recent White House press conference, the…

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Geopolitical jockeying in a time of pandemic

8 April 2020 1:18 am

You might think a global pandemic and the worst crisis since World War Two would lead to a welcome, if…

The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei

29 January 2020 3:20 am

With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…

Britain’s Huawei gamble is sure to anger Donald Trump

25 April 2019 11:52 pm

Just hours after Donald Trump’s long-delayed state visit to Britain was finally confirmed, reports surfaced that Theresa May and her…

Making China great again

4 August 2018 9:00 am

Most reporting on Jeremy Hunt’s visit to China this week went little further than his slip of the tongue in…

The war in the shadows

27 May 2017 9:00 am

I once spent an evening, back in the mid-1980s, with William Colby, the legendary spy and director of the CIA.…