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Video: CONFIGURING THE U.S.-ROK ALLIANCE FOR A CHANGING ASIAN SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
By Van Jackson
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Where Are the Spratly Islands and Why Do They Matter?
Senior Fellow Ely Ratner discusses why six nations are contesting sovereignty over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. He speaks on “In The Loop.”...
By Ely Ratner
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South Korea's ADIZ Enforcement Challenge
A recent report submitted during last month’s National Assembly Audit revealed that the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) remains largely unprepared to enforce the expanded ...
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Straight Talk on the South China Sea
President Obama’s second daylong summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping will be the best chance this year to clarify some fuzzy lines on Asia’s biggest potential flash point...
By Ely Ratner
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Maritime Strategy Project Workshop #2, pt. 2
Any strategy that seeks to maintain peace and stability of the East China Sea – or any of Asia’s important waterways – will unfold in a phased manner, with critical attention ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Cronin: The Rise of Tailered Coercion in the South China Sea
Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Patrick Cronin contributed a chapter on tailored coercion in the South China Sea. His contribution is part of a volume published by the C...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Transcript: CNAS Press Briefing: President Obama’s Upcoming Trip to Asia
On Monday, October 27, the Center for a New American Security held a press briefing for reporters to lay out the major issues President Obama will face during his upcoming tri...
By Elbridge Colby, Ely Ratner & Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Vietnam agreed to control the South China Sea conflict, the crisis is expected to lift?
By Alexander Sullivan
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Maritime Strategy Project Workshop #2 pt 1: Imposing Costs on Coercion in the East China Sea, with the Japan Institute of International Affairs
The news this week that Japan and the United States have finished an interim draft of their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines – under review for the first time in 17 ye...
By Alexander Sullivan
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The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in Asia
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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How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China Sea
As 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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Dueling Narratives, Dueling Visions of ASEAN
China-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 & Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to Vietnam
When Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Video: Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy: Day 1, Panel 1
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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China's Budding Ocean Empire
I 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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Middle Powers Can Rescue the International Community
President Barack Obama's recent swing through Asia reaffirmed the importance of alliances and a long-term U.S. policy of rebalancing to Asia. But it failed to halt the percept...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Video: Patrick Cronin Discussing the Transatlantic Pivot to Asia
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Video: Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS Asia-Pacific Security Deputy Director Dr. Ely Ratner at U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
CNAS' Dr. Ely Ratner testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on "China and the Evolving Security Dynamics in East Asia.”...
By Ely Ratner
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The U.S. Humanitarian Presence in Southeast Asia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently visited Tacloban in the Philippines to witness the recovery efforts following Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people a...
By Zachary Hosford