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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
High-Profile Naval Visit Belies China’s Low-Profile Approach to IranTwo Chinese warships paid a port call to Iran over the weekend, in advance of a four-day joint naval exercise with the Iranian navy that was reportedly to begin Monday. The vi...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Analyzing Peace Mission 2014: China and Russia Exercise with the Central Asian StatesFrom August 24-29, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held “Peace Mission 2014” at China’s Zhurihe Training Base, in Inner Mongolia in North China. This is China’s ba...
By Richard Weitz
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National Security Human Capital Program
Cuts to defense spending are hurting our national securityThis summer’s dramatic global events — from the rise of the Islamic State, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war between Hamas and Israel, violent confrontations and air strikes i...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman & Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Strategic Posture Review: South KoreaThanks to its comprehensive democratization and its “Miracle on the Han,” which transformed the Republic of Korea into a developed country, South Korea has realized its aspira...
By Richard Weitz
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Keeping America's Military Lead: A Front Opens in Congress
Along with many of us at CNAS, I have been seeking to draw attention to the growing challenges to U.S. military superiority and the consequent need for the country to focus mo...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Deterrence, Reassurance, and Cost: Part 1“The dynamic joint defense force envisions active and regular surveillance for seamless response to ‘gray zone scenarios’ between peacetime and wartime.” U.S.-Japan Allied Mar...
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Responding to Crises, SCO Finally Embraces Expansion
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Sept. 12-13 may have been one of the organization’s most important. After years of stasis, the g...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Is Abbott spreading Australia too thin?Two months ago, as Prime Minister Abbott's globalist reflexes were becoming increasingly apparent, I offered a perspective from Washington that the US should welcome a more pr...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequencesHow will the deployment of ballistic missile submarines by China and India affect the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape? What effect will these deployments have on stability in...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in AsiaIn places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Tensions Mounting in the East China SeaWaking up to another news article about a close encounter in or above the East China Sea has become routine. But when one looks more closely at the recent developments in thes...
By Zachary Hosford
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When it Comes to Nonproliferation, China Has Been a ‘Free Rider’
When asked recently by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman whether China, as the “biggest energy investor in Iraq,” should behave more like a stakeholder there, U.S. P...
By Richard Weitz
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Islamic State’s #1 Export: The Continuing Relevance of Counterterrorism
In places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Pointless PunishmentThe Obama administration has responded to increasing Russian aggression by stepping up its own efforts to inflict economic pain on Moscow and isolate it diplomatically. The Un...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Can America "Just Say No" to China?“One of America’s clearest and most compelling interests is to develop a positive and constructive U.S.-China relationship.” Secretary Kerry’s statement at the recent U.S.-Chi...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China SeaAs a previous blog post alluded to, one of the goals of the first workshop in our Maritime Strategy Project, and indeed of the entire initiative, is to understand the drivers ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Fading Star?The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) stands at a pivotal point in its history. On the one hand, the growing ties between Russia and China as well as the withdrawal of t...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dueling Narratives, Dueling Visions of ASEANChina-U.S. relations retain a high degree of stability and do not operate within a zero-sum game. They do, however, operate against the background music of dueling narratives ...
By Cecilia Zhou & Patrick M. Cronin
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NATO Must Adapt to Counter Russia’s Next-Generation Warfare
A recently released paper of the Defense Committee of the U.K. House of Commons on Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the implications for Western security concludes that “events ...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Chinese Assertiveness Has Asia on Edge: How to RespondA recent Pew Research Poll made clear that publics in East Asia are increasingly uneasy about the destabilizing effects of China’s maritime assertiveness. Among the eight coun...
By Ely Ratner