2026 Issue 1

Decker Eveleth argues in Foreign Policy that hard power limitations, not “international law” prevents the PRC and Russia from conducting the kind of operation the United States conducted in Venezuela and Justin Bronk in Foreign Affairs cautions against drawing too many similarities between Ukraine and a potential conflict over Taiwan.

Carla Freeman and Alison McFarland argue in War on the Rocks that despite years of trying to establish a military hotline between the U.S. and the PRC, the CCP does not want to use these procedures as they see it as a way to legitimize American operations.

Andrew Higgins at the New York Times reports on the erasure of Russian identity among ethnic Russian living in the PRC and the team at Human Rights in China comments on the death of Peng Peiyun, the senior CCP official in charge of the country’s murderous “One Child Policy” from 1988 to 1998.