Foreign Affairs - Quillette

China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic

The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.

Aaron Sarin

19 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

When Havel Met Biden

Far from being a project of US imperialism, NATO expansion has been a process driven by small and vulnerable countries.

Oscar Clarke

29 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

The Retreat from Moscow

Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.

John Lloyd

27 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

World War Z

A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.

John Lloyd

10 May 2023 · 10 min read

Beijing’s Campus Offensive

Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers

Joshua Kurlantzick

6 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

Why AUKUS Matters

The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.

Aaron Sarin

20 Mar 2023 · 11 min read

The Nature of the Beast

Too many Western politicians continue to delude themselves about the character of Beijing’s regime.

Aaron Sarin

1 Mar 2023 · 10 min read

The Ukrainian Year

Ukraine has been instrumental in restoring a focus on what matters to the people and elected leaders of the West.

Jesse Inman

26 Feb 2023 · 4 min read

Ukraine’s Verdun

Attritional trench warfare and the terrible logic of the sunk cost return to Europe.

Robert Zaretsky

17 Feb 2023 · 4 min read

Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction?

What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.

Matt Johnson

15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read

The White Paper Revolution

China’s population has learned that its voice has real power.

Aaron Sarin

21 Dec 2022 · 13 min read

Misremembering the Korean War

The profound difference in quality of life on opposing sides of the 38th parallel today offers a rebuke to those who portray the US-led intervention in Korea as immoral or futile.