Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 5, 2018

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning

Hal Brands, Bloomberg: China Hasn't Won the Pacific (Unless You Think It Has)

A rising school of thought among allies holds that the U.S. can't compete with Beijing's economic and military expansion.

Is China destined to dominate the Asia-Pacific? Among U.S. allies and partners in the region, there seems to be a growing doubt that America can win the ongoing competition for influence with China, and that they must begin preparing for a regional order headed by Beijing. The challenge for America, then, is to ensure that this feeling of strategic fatalism doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 5, 2018

South, North Korea to talk after military drills postponed -- Andrew Salmon. Asia Times

America Has Military Options for North Korea (but They're All Bad) -- Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest

There’s still time for diplomacy in Korea -- John Glaser, Reuters

The Real North Korea Disaster Isn't War (But Collapse) -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

Pakistan Has All the Leverage -- C. Christine Fair, Foreign Policy

Pakistan's Dangerous Slide to Extremism -- Adam Weinstein & Michael Kugelman, National Interest

Jailing of journalists hides mass graves in Myanmar -- Lee Short, Asia Times

The Iranian rebellion the world wants to ignore -- Douglas Murray, Spectator

Protests in Iran Put Rouhani on the Spot -- Golnar Motevalli, Kambiz Foroohar, and Grant Clark, Bloomberg

Is the end near for Iran's theocracy? -- Matthias von Hein, DW

Protests put spotlight on Iran’s vast, shadowy Syria war -- Philip Issa, AP

Latvia, a disappearing nation -- Gordon Sander, Politico.eu

Germans believe Merkel's best days are over -- Elizabeth Schumacher, DW

There’s a better way to unite Europe -- John Lloyd, Reuters

Is Bitcoin a 21st-Century Tulip Craze, or Something Else? -- Bronwyn Howell, AEI

What is a 'bomb cyclone?' -- Rebecca Staudenmaier (with AP)/DW