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Blunting China’s Illiberal Order: The Vital Role of Congress in U.S. Strategic Competition with China
How the United States fares in its strategic competition with China will ultimately depend on our own competitiveness, which means we need to be committed and focused on enhan...
By Ely Ratner
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Is Afghanistan's 17-year war coming to an end?
Video
Both the Taliban and US officials have said "progress" was made in the latest set of talks in Qatar, and despite continuing violence on the ground in Afghanistan, there seems ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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U.S.-India Relations: The Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy Bright Spot
Commentary
It’s customary these days to lament U.S. relations with allied countries like Germany and Canada, or to worry about warmth with unfriendly ones like Russia and North Korea. Ti...
By Richard Fontaine
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What North Korea wants from the next US summit
Commentary
Following their historic meeting in Singapore last June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are preparing for another summit in late February. Their...
By Duyeon Kim
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Jaw-Jaw: How America Got China Wrong
Podcast
How did American analysts seem to get China so “wrong”? Why wasn’t there more of a debate until fairly recently inside the halls of power? What concerns drove the Obama admini...
By Ely Ratner
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Time to Make Good on the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
Commentary
A storm is brewing in America’s oldest security alliance in the Indo-Pacific and the administration needs to act quickly to head it off. On December 20, Philippine Secretary o...
By Gregory Poling & Eric Sayers
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It's Time for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance to Evolve
Commentary
The alliance between the United States and South Korea has, for the past six decades, been a core pillar of the U.S.-led security architecture in Northeast Asia—but in recent ...
By Kristine Lee
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Afghanistan Strategy on Stage: Five Key Questions for the Administration
The upcoming congressional testimony of the administration’s national security team on Afghanistan may be the most pivotal since September 2007, when General David Petraeus an...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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A New Cold War Has Begun
Commentary
In June 2005, I published a cover story in the Atlantic, “How We Would Fight China.” I wrote that, “The American military contest with China … will define the twenty-first cen...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
The decision by President Trump to withdraw 7,000 of the roughly 14,000 American troops left in Afghanistan, possibly by summer, has raised new concerns about his impulsive be...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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In an Era of Divided Government, China Can Unite
The televised bickering between President Trump and top Democratic leaders illustrates that, if political leaders find any consensus in 2019, it won’t be on the border wall. N...
By Richard Fontaine
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Can the U.S. Reinstate “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea?
Commentary
The diplomatic sprint to North Korean denuclearization has slowed to a crawl. Earlier last month, North Korea abruptly canceled talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...
By Eric Brewer
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Watch: WION Dispatch, November 30, 2018
Video
Abigail Grace joins WION to survey the meetings, statements, and other actions of President Trump at the G20 Summit....
By Abigail Grace
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There Is No Grand Bargain With China
Commentary
In true showmanship fashion, U.S. President Donald Trump is keeping the world in suspense about whether he will soon double down on the United States’ trade war with China or ...
By Ely Ratner
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Ten Years After Mumbai, the Group Responsible Is Deadlier Than Ever
Commentary
Ten years ago today, ten gunmen from Lashkar-e-Taiba launched a complex attack that lasted over 60 hours against India’s commercial capital, Mumbai. They targeted two luxury h...
By Stephen Tankel
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Quad Restrictions: Addressing PRC Investment Concerns in the Indo-Pacific
Commentary
Washington has recently taken a tougher tack to growing inbound investment from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by strengthening the Committee on Foreign Investment in th...
By Ashley Feng & Sagatom Saha
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Leverage the new US International Development Finance Corporation to compete with China
Commentary
The United States has a unique opportunity to up its game in the global economic competition with China. In early October, even as Democrats and Republicans in the Senate enga...
By Daniel Kliman
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On GPS: The future of US-China relations
Video
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell breaks down the factions and relationships shaping US-China relations. View the full vide...
By Kurt Campbell
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Assessing America's Indo-Pacific Budget ShortfallBudgets are policy in Washington. Setting new trends in Pentagon and State Department funding is a tall order, so when they do emerge, they are the strongest indication of a g...
By Eric Sayers
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What is the end game with China?
Commentary
As President Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month, there is intense speculation about whether the two leaders will strike a deal over the ...
By Peter Harrell
