The Stimson Center

🎙️In the latest episode of The Trialogue, Senior Fellow and Russia Program Director Peter Slezkine speaks with Philani Mthembu of the Institute for Global Dialogue, who shares the South African perspective on #BRICS, #China, and the war in #Ukraine. https://lnkd.in/efMQgRcE

📝Following last week's high-level meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and US President Donald Trump, Senior Fellow and Japan Program Director Yuki Tatsumi provides her analysis on the meeting's outcomes and Japan's challenges ahead. https://lnkd.in/e7EjYTwC

In a 🆕 commentary compilation, members of our Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program and other Stimson experts share their insights into key assumptions about US foreign policy that will be tested in 2025 from efforts to resolve conflicts in #Ukraine and the #MiddleEast to relations with #China. Read the full piece below ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eGy6x-Gs

#UpcomingEvent: Join us for a discussion with Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. and Kunihiko Miyake analyzing US-Japan bilateral relations amid growing geopolitical uncertainty following Prime Minister Ishiba's meeting with President Trump. 🗓️Feb. 21 ⏰8:30 - 9:30 AM ET https://lnkd.in/en3SBxzT

"It was in the permissive post-9/11 environment that we saw a whole slew of ill-conceived weapons programs. Now we are seeing the results—failed program after failed program," comments Senior Fellow Dan Grazier on military spending as DOGE sets its sights on the Pentagon. Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal https://lnkd.in/ecprW7vR

📝Senior Fellow and Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program Director Christopher Preble writes on what a restrained US military policy might look like in the Trump administration and the challenges within the military-industrial complex. Read the full article on Inkstick Media https://lnkd.in/emJhtdXw

"Ishiba respects Trump's 'America First' policy, but he is also a 'Japan first' prime minister," comments Senior Fellow and Japan Program Director Yuki Tatsumi in a new article from Voice of America Read the full piece below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eW_U3Bmu

Told Margarida Mota Expresso the resettlement of #Palestinians to #Jordan #Egypt or #KSA will be a big threat to the national security of these countries- this is a red line for them. It will not happen but is extremely destabilizing a region already on fire. “A Arábia Saudita não abdicará da exigência do estabelecimento de um Estado palestiniano, de forma alguma”, comenta ao Expresso Kawa Hassan, investigador do programa para o Médio Oriente e Norte de África do think tank Stimson Center, em Washington DC (Estados Unidos).  “Para Jordânia e Egito, a transferência de palestinianos são linhas vermelhas. É uma ameaça estratégica à segurança nacional dos dois países, porque terá impacto na segurança, na política, na economia e nas relações sociais em ambos”, diz Kawa Hassan. 👇

“Given the stakes on US-China relations, if Trump prices China’s cooperation as the one critical issue that could improve US-China relations, I think China will be very tempted...(and could) play a helpful role,” comments Senior Fellow and China Program Director Yun Sun on the latest CNN article. Read more below 👇 https://lnkd.in/e-riJsAn

"It might run contrary to their larger project based on efforts to cut the civilian workforce, but there are a lot of areas to cut Pentagon waste by actually building up government capacity to do basic administrative functions rather than outsourcing them at a very high cost." Research Associate Julia Gledhill (she/her) spoke with Fox News Media recently on the potential challenges of cutting federal employment and increasing outsourced/contracted work on government administration. Read the full article below ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/ebFiedXE