When responding to China’s growing military power, the United States should focus on its comparative advantages by strengthening military capabilities, alliances, and security partnerships, maintaining a leading edge on technological innovation, and championing liberal values, writes Patricia Kim.

Technology is about to upend our entire national security infrastructure, writes Glenn Gerstell.

America has bolted the front door to illicit financial activity but left the back door wide open, writes Josh Kirschenbaum.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Mexican Undersecretary for North American Affairs Jesús Seade, COMEXI, and the Pacific Council recently hosted the inaugural meeting of the Mexico-Los Angeles Commission (MEXLA), representing a rare level of collaboration between a foreign national government and a U.S. city government that will focus on deepening the cultural, economic, and people-to-people ties between the two regions.