The explanation for China's international rudeness is a threefold recipe for mischief: greater military power combined with leadership weakness and a xenophobic nationalism that China's leadership created.

In little over a week, a modern French warship is scheduled to visit St. Petersburg. Should the sale go through, it will be the first ever arms sale of its kind to Russia from a NATO member.

It’s folly to expect Beijing to seriously help in curbing Pyongyang.

What is the best way to engage China while deterring aggression? What should Taiwan's America policy be? How can Taiwan break its international isolation? Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, the current Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman and presidential candidate, will address these and other questions at an AEI event on September 13.

When an imperious bully like Fidel Castro starts to fear, his instinct is to try to sow fear among his enemies. Today, with his student and benefactor, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, dying of cancer, what the Cuban dictator fears most is that his bankrupt regime in Havana is about to lose billions in critical aid and oil.

Kim Jong-il’s death came like the line from Fletch: He’d been dying for years, but when it came it was very sudden. Now the world waits to see what will happen to the most repressive and secretive regime on earth.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

The “strategic guidance” announced this week from the commander in chief to the Department of Defense is, make no mistake about it, an order to retreat.