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Preview: President Trump's trip to Asia, China's 19th Party Congress
CNAS experts Patrick Cronin and Harry Krejsa discuss the major recent and upcoming events in the Asia-Pacific. With the Chinese Communist Party concluding its 19th Party Congr...
By Harry Krejsa & Patrick Cronin
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Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD
As global attention fixes on the Trump administration’s North Korea and Iran policies, the White House is preparing for another consequential policy shift that’s gone almost u...
By Daniel Kliman
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Trump’s Asian Security Dilemma
President Trump’s upcoming five-country Asian tour takes place amid deepening worries about security trends across the region. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs menac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's Nov visit can be his defining moment in Asia
United States President Donald Trump's first official visit to East Asia next month is historic in its combination of low expectations and high potential impact. The President...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Is Beijing Adopting an Ethnonationalist Foreign Policy?
Around the world, governments from Poland to Myanmar are stoking ethnonationalist sentiment to consolidate support around otherwise divisive political agendas. For smaller or ...
By Harry Krejsa & Anthony Cho
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What the World Can Learn from Taiwan's China Experience
As China’s economic gravity becomes inescapable and its military reach extends into the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, nations large and small are trying to benefit fro...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
5 Ways America Can Defend Itself from 'Nonphysical' AttacksEarlier this month it was revealed that Russian-linked Facebook accounts purchased more than $100,000 in divisive political advertisements on the social network during the 201...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Harry Krejsa
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Networking Security in Asia
The United States faces a dilemma in Asia. It wishes to preserve a balance of power, reinforce the rules-based regional order, avoid conflict, and maintain stable economic rel...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Uses and Misuses of Historical Analogy for North Korea
Amid a steady fusillade of ever more capable rockets from North Korea, and an escalating volley of threats and insults flying between Washington and Pyongyang, the crisis in N...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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The Party’s ‘Hurdles’: the Internet, Propaganda, and Power
Ahead of China’s annual National Cyber Security Publicity (Propaganda) Week, the Cyberspace Administration of China’s Theoretical Studies Center Group published an article in ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Understanding the North Korea-US crisis
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp sits down with CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy and foreign policy expert Scott Snyder to discuss the escalating North Korea threat and the U.S. military ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Would Trump attack North Korea? Here’s what we learned from his ‘Rocket Man’ speech at the U.N.
Donald Trump devoted a significant portion of his United Nations General Assembly remarks to North Korea’s nuclear and missile developments. Here are four things he told us (a...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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How close is N. Korea to a nuclear missile?
Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses North Korea's nuclear progression with CNN's Brian Todd. Watch the video here....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Dr. Patrick Cronin on ABC Nightline: The War of Words with North Korea
Dr. Patrick Cronin joins ABC Nightline to discuss Kim Jong-un's motivations for a nuclear North Korea. Watch the video here....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Here's How Private Contractors Can Help Win the Afghan WarThe president has declared a “path forward” for Afghanistan. Given that the United States is at a nexus for strategic change, might there be an increased role for private cont...
By CDR Daniel G. Straub, USN
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China has a plan to cripple North Korea, so let's work with Beijing
The United States and North Korea are in a dangerous cycle of escalating military threats and rhetorical exchanges. The risk of a miscalculation that results in catastrophic c...
By Peter Harrell
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Is China leaping past us?
Sixty years ago this fall, the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching into orbit Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The beach ball-sized spacecraft was an ast...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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North Korea’s Nuclear Threat Requires Diplomatic Talks
This is a hard essay to write. It is admittedly an awkward attempt to distill a lesson from a tragedy in order to apply it to a far larger problem facing our nation. In the na...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Decoupling is back in Asia: A 1960s playbook won't solve these problems
It has been quite a summer in Pyongyang. Between July 4th, when it tested its first ICBM, and Labor Day weekend, when it detonated its sixth nuclear bomb — possibly a thermonu...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Wanted: A U.S. Strategic Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China is engaging in a nearly trillion dollar play for the future of Afro-Eurasia—called the Belt and Road Initiative—and has so far caught the United States flat-footed. Unle...
By Daniel Kliman