North America
The Second Space Race is Underway: The US-China Space Race
America is racing back to the Moon on a fraction of Apollo’s budget, while China is rapidly closing the gap. At stake is dominance in space, and potentially on Earth as well.
US-ASEAN Relations Grow as Tensions Rise in the South China Sea
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attended the biannual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from Oct. 6 to 11, 2024, to discuss US foreign policy.
Biden’s Quad Summit: The United States’ Subtle Strategy to Counter China’s Indo-Pacific Influence
In the final months of his presidency and his decades of public service, President Joe Biden gathered the leaders of Japan, Australia, and India for a Quad summit in Delaware on Sept. 20, 2024.