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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Bold Maritime Strategy for TaiwanTaiwan’s future security hinges on developing a new maritime strategy of active diplomacy and asymmetric defense. Although President Ma Ying-jeou has initiated creative peace ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Advances on Missile Defense, With Eye on Dissuading RivalsOn July 23, China conducted its third declared ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the past four years, with the Defense Ministry announcing afterward that the test had “a...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
How Russia, China and the US can denuclearize North KoreaDespite their many differences over regional security and other issues, China, Russia, and the United States continue to collaborate to counter the nuclear and missile program...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policyChina’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Xi’s Visit Brings No Breakthrough in China-South Korea TiesLast week’s China-South Korea summit confirmed the good relations between Beijing and Seoul under Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. When t...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s territorial advances must be kept in check by the United StatesThis month, China will participate for the first time in the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific naval exercise, better known as RIMPAC. Four Chinese navy ships, including a destroyer...
By Ely Ratner & Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US should help Vietnam counter China's coercionLast October, during a visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung promised to buttress "political trust" between the two South China Sea (SCS)...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Problem with Rules: Managing a Reluctant StakeholderMany admonish the United States for not finding a more far-sighted way to manage strategic competition with a reemerging China. However, the ongoing search for a bilateral str...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Plan to Counter Chinese AggressionWith China drilling for oil in contested waters off Vietnam and building artificial islands off the Philippines, U.S. policy clearly isn't curbing Beijing's ambitions to redra...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Budding Ocean EmpireI am flattered by Nilanthi Samaranayake’s lengthy and respectful treatment of my March 2009 Foreign Affairs cover story about the importance of the Indian Ocean, on the articl...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Video: Ben FitzGerald on C-SPAN Discussing Chinese Hacking Charges by DOJBy Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
China Has Russia Over a BarrelChinese officials are notoriously tough negotiators, especially when they know you're in a pinch. Just ask Gazprom, Russia's natural gas giant, which is on the brink of capitu...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Patrick Cronin Discussing China's Roles in the World with USIP and GeorgetownBy Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Aloha Diplomacy: What the U.S.-ASEAN Defense Forum in Hawaii Could AchieveSecretary of Defense Chuck Hagel walks with defense ministers with the Association of South East Asian Nations in Honolulu, Hawaii April 1, 2014. Hagel held a round table meet...
By Nicole Yeo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Coming Chinese New Year Marks a Historical Moment of Sino-Japanese RelationsThis week, Chinese people all over the world are celebrating the Chinese New Year. But this coming year for China may be shadowed by its growing tensions with Japan. At Davos,...
By Yanliang Li
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Execution of Uncle Jang Creates Uncertainty in DPRK-China RelationsThe execution of Jang Song-Thaek is the latest episode of the Kim Jong-Un power show. The unprecedented official media coverage of the purge indicates the eagerness of the you...
By Yanliang Li
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Asians Hedge Against ChinaBeijing's announcement of a new "air defense identification zone" that overlaps with existing Japanese and Korean airspace sent reverberations across the Indo-Pacific region. ...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Sec. Clinton Urges Countries to "Literally Calm the Water" in South China SeaAll eyes are on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her visit to the Asia Pacific this week. On Tuesday, Secretary Clinton met with officials of the Association of S...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Politics in Play in the South China SeaWhile the potential reserves of oil and natural gas are important drivers of Beijing’s assertive behavior in the South China Sea, access to the sea's energy resources is not t...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Rocking the Boat in the Potentially Energy Rich South China SeaNote: This post originally appeared on the Choke Points blog at ConsumerEnergyReport.com on July 2, 2012. Beijing is flexing some more muscle to protect its energy interests i...