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Want to prevail against China? Prioritize democracy assistance
The United States is reshaping how it uses foreign aid in order to compete with China. The executive branch and Congress are exploring efforts — some controversial and still f...
By Patrick Quirk & David Shullman
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Technology & National Security
ChinaEconTalk, Live from Washington, D.C.ChinaEconTalk is live from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., with Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow in the Technology and National Security Pro...
By Martijn Rasser
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Hong Kong Protests Update
Ashley Feng, Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and Matt Schrader, China Analyst at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshal...
By Ashley Feng
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The Low Road: Charting China's Digital ExpansionAs Beijing tightens control of the Internet within its own borders, what consequences lie ahead for people living under other authoritarian regimes and fragile democracies?...
By Kara Frederick, Daniel Kliman & Ely Ratner
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Welcome to the New Phase of US-China Tech Competition
It came without a breaking news alert or presidential tweet, but the technological competition with China entered a new phase last month. Several developments quietly heralded...
By Ashley Feng & Lorand Laskai
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Technology & National Security
Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI & China with Helen Toner & Elsa KaniaDiscussions of Chinese artificial intelligence frequently center around the trope of a U.S.-China arms race. On this month’s FLI podcast, we’re moving beyond the arms race nar...
By Elsa B. Kania & Helen Toner
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
In Military-Civil Fusion, China is Learning Lessons from the United States and Starting to InnovateChina’s national strategy of “military-civil fusion” (军民融合) is provoking some anxiety in Washington.1 There are concerns the United States could be challenged, or even outrigh...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Balkans Will Pay a Heavy Price for China's Global Ambitions
Since President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan in 2013, framing it as an overland strategy to connect Asia to Europe, China’s inroads in the W...
By Karina Barbesino & Kristine Lee
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How China's Military Is Becoming Stronger
The PRC claims that its policy for national defense is inherently defensive. However, the scope and scale of what the PLA may be called upon to defend is expanding, motivated ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a ‘New Domain of Warfare’Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, the PLA is sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, and more. We may be on the verge of a brave new...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wilson VornDick
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The Chinese Military Reforms and Transforms in the “New Era”
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been undergoing a far-reaching transformation with strategic implications for the military balance in the region and beyond. Sta...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The U.S. or China? Europe Needs to Pick a Side
Amid ten consecutive weeks of protest in Hong Kong, Beijing is looking to a seemingly unlikely place for support: Europe. In recent days, Chinese ambassadors across the contin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Could the trade war with China topple the US oil sanctions framework?Tariffs, retaliatory tariffs and currency fights, the US and China are locked in a trade war with massive consequences for the global economy. What impact will this fight h...
By Neil Bhatiya & Ashley Feng
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Two Years of North Korean Coal Export RestrictionsTwo years have passed since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2371, which prohibits North Korea from exporting coal. Yet there has been a big shift in China's imports...
By Ashley Feng
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America should apply Cold War lessons to China: Compete hard, hold fast to our values
As global stock markets gyrate in response to mounting economic tensions between Washington and Beijing, the specter of a U.S.-China Cold War looms large. The intensifying riv...
By Daniel Kliman
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Meeting the Challenge of Secondary Sanctions
The second episode of ECFR’s summer series on strategic sovereignty explores the critical challenge that secondary sanctions pose for Europe, due to the Trump administration’s...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Major Themes in China’s 2019 National Defense White PaperOn July 24, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) issued its first new national defense white paper (NDWP) since 2015 (Xinhua). “China’s National Defense in a New Era” attempts...
By Elsa B. Kania & Peter Wood
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Reveal China’s Growing Role in Illicit Supply ChainsOn July 18, in the Trump administration’s first punitive measure since Iran announced earlier this month that it would exceed the levels of enriched uranium permitted under th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Technology & National Security
Will Silicon Valley Have to Choose Between End-to-End Crypto and Shutting Down Speech it Hates?Our guests this week are Paul Scharre from the Center for a New American Security and Greg Allen from the Defense Department’s newly formed Joint Artificial Intelligence Cente...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America must invest in expertise and skills to compete with ChinaFor the United States, a smart and serious approach to competition with China requires improving our understanding of this key rival. American strategy must be informed by car...
By Elsa B. Kania