The tripartite AUKUS agreement exacerbates the threat to Australia without committing the United States to containing China, writes Sam Roggeveen in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.

For my first Bluesky post, a question for DPRK watchers: why is the US troop presence in ROK not a bigger feature of North Korea's nuclear diplomacy? Historically, DPRK has asked for aid, sanctions relief and US nuclear concessions. Troop withdrawals, not so much. Why?