| This week's curated content continues to study grand strategy perspectives on US-China relations. Daniel Larison's piece offers a sobering perspective and context for Secretary Pompeo’s recent tough remarks on China. If restraint-oriented grand strategists welcome diverted attention away from confrontation in the Middle East, Bonnie Kristian's piece sounds a cautionary note on President Trump's possible troop pivot to Asia. For readers especially interested in Taiwan as a possible flash point in US-China relations, we recommend both Doug Bandow and Daniel Davis' pieces. Much of the threat escalation toward China involves human rights posturing with respect to treatment of the Uighurs. James Millward's piece helps put this issue in its proper perspective. For readers following developments in Syria, Larison's American Conservative piece and Daniel DePetris' Military.com piece are worth a careful look. A huge component of grand strategy involves resource allocation. For that reason, our curated content has paid close attention to budgetary issues related to defense spending. For a well-rounded analysis of defense spending, why to cut it and where the cuts should be made, we recommend Asli Bali, Gil Barndollar, and Erica Fein. Finally, for those in want of some encouragement for the future, we recommend Jake Mercier's piece on an emerging foreign policy restraint-oriented coalition among the young "Generation Z." Original Posts Jake Mercier, RealClearDefense Cultivating any coherent national foreign policy won’t be possible without a common goal, concrete values, and a clear vision of what America is and should be. But a sharp generation... In the News Jonathan Hunt, Responsible Statecraft T.X. Hammes, Defense Priorities Erica Fein, Responsible Statecraft Emma Ashford & Matthew Kroenig, Foreign Policy Aslı Bâli, Just Security Gil Barndollar, Defense Priorities Salome Pachkoria and Ben Freeman, Responsible Statecraft Fadel Allassan, Axios Mark Kukis, Responsible Statecraft William D. Hartung, Defense Priorities Barbara Boland, American Conservative Jessica Lee, American Conservative Doug Bandow, American Spectator Bonnie Kristian, National Interest Daniel Larison, American Conservative Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. presidents have put enlarging NATO at the center of their policy toward Europe. Increasingly, however, enlargement is being questioned by policymakers and analysts in the United States, Europe, and beyond. Three decades on, what were the consequences for the United States, its NATO allies, and states outside the alliance? Women Cross DMZ On Monday, July 27, 2020 — the 67th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice — leading experts on Korea and U.S.-Korean relations discussed how a peace agreement can resolve the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Power Problems In the second of our series on the world after the coronavirus, we look at the impact on Pentagon spending. Will the coronavirus prompt us to reconsider the defense budget? | 
