Ely Ratner

Experts from both the United States and China weigh in on Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner’s March/April article about U.S. China policy.

A healthy combination of strong political will in Washington and American leadership abroad can parry China’s unfair advantages without doing significant collateral...

China is getting perilously close to seizing total control over the South China Sea. The United States needs to take swift and aggressive action to stop it.

Nearly two centuries after it lost its traditional place at the center of Asian affairs, Beijing has begun giving shape and substance to its renewed leadership on...

The United States will have to face the reality that further Russian isolation might be more costly than it is worth. In particular, further U.S.-led sanctions will...

Asia is going to command ever more attention and resources from the United States, thanks to the region’s growing prosperity and influence and the enormous...

A recent essay by Robert Ross characterized the Obama administration's "pivot" to Asia as a hostile, knee-jerk response to Chinese aggression. But the shift was not...

Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean transfer...