Keith Johnson is a deputy news editor at Foreign Policy. He has been at FP since 2013, after spending 15 years covering terrorism, energy, airlines, politics, foreign affairs, and the economy for the Wall Street Journal. He has reported from Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
French "Charles de Gaulle" aicraft carrier returns to the French naval base of Toulon, on March 16, 2016, after a mission against the Islamic State group in Gulf. / AFP / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images)
An aerial view shows a Philippine Navy vessel that has been grounded since 1999 to assert their nation's sovereignty over the Second Thomas Shoal, a remote South China Sea a reef also claimed by China, on March 29, 2014. Philippine soldiers aboard a fishing vessel engaged on March 29 in a dramatic stand-off with Chinese coastguard ships near a remote South China Sea reef claimed by both countries, an AFP journalist witnessed. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)
SHANGHAI, CHINA-JUNE 21:(CHINA OUT) China Coast Guard vessels take part in a security drill on the East China Sea off Pudong's Luchaogang area in preparation for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo on June 21, 2009 in Shanghai, China. More than 1,000 servicemen from across the country, using 29 ships and two of Shanghai's police helicopters, participated in Sunday's exercise, which featured hostage rescue, firefighting and terrorism defense. The drill simulated attack scenarios in which terrorists hijacked a cargo ship, detained hostages on board and blew up the ship while fleeing by sea. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
Military delegates attend the closing ceremony on the final day of the Vietnam Communist Party's 12th National Congress in Hanoi on January 28, 2016. Vietnam's top communist leader Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected on January 27 in a victory for the party's old guard which some fear could slow crucial economic reforms in the fast-growing country. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kham / AFP / POOL / KHAM. (Photo credit should read KHAM./AFP/Getty Images)
