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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Bold Maritime Strategy for TaiwanTaiwan’s future security hinges on developing a new maritime strategy of active diplomacy and asymmetric defense. Although President Ma Ying-jeou has initiated creative peace ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Diversified Portfolio: Regional Responses to Chinese AssertivenessA 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
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Advances on Missile Defense, With Eye on Dissuading RivalsOn July 23, China conducted its third declared ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the past four years, with the Defense Ministry announcing afterward that the test had “a...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Kicks Off Maritime Strategy Project: Imposing Costs on Bad Behavior in Maritime AsiaAsia’s relative peace and prosperity is increasingly marked by maritime tensions, especially in the East and South China Seas. Despite the obvious incentives for cooperation,...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Russia, China and the US can denuclearize North KoreaDespite their many differences over regional security and other issues, China, Russia, and the United States continue to collaborate to counter the nuclear and missile program...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Australia's new activism: The view from WashingtonWhen US officials talk about the US-Australia alliance, they almost always highlight, as President Obama did in hisNovember 2011 speech in Canberra, that Australians have foug...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policyChina’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to VietnamWhen 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 Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy: Day 1, Panel 1By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Xi’s Visit Brings No Breakthrough in China-South Korea TiesLast week’s China-South Korea summit confirmed the good relations between Beijing and Seoul under Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. When t...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s territorial advances must be kept in check by the United StatesThis month, China will participate for the first time in the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific naval exercise, better known as RIMPAC. Four Chinese navy ships, including a destroyer...
By Ely Ratner & Michèle Flournoy
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Technology & National Security
Peering into America's Military Blind Spots: High-Impact Long ShotsThe national security establishment is currently facing criticism for a perceived failure to anticipate Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the capture of a swathe of Iraqi territory...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US should help Vietnam counter China's coercionLast October, during a visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung promised to buttress "political trust" between the two South China Sea (SCS)...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Park’s Central Asia Tour Reaffirms South Korea’s Eurasian VisionSouth Korean President Park Geun-hye’s high-profile six-day visit to Central Asia last week imparted further momentum to her “Eurasia initiative," intended to deepen South Kor...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Problem with Rules: Managing a Reluctant StakeholderMany admonish the United States for not finding a more far-sighted way to manage strategic competition with a reemerging China. However, the ongoing search for a bilateral str...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Time to Actively Deter North KoreaIt is only a matter of time before North Korea flaunts its ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead, deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles and road-mobile missile launche...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Plan to Counter Chinese AggressionWith China drilling for oil in contested waters off Vietnam and building artificial islands off the Philippines, U.S. policy clearly isn't curbing Beijing's ambitions to redra...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
We’re Not in Shangri-La Anymore: Both China and Japan Need Doses of RealityIf there is anything that the most anticipated speeches at the 2014 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit highlighted, it is that both the ...
By Nicole Yeo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Budding Ocean EmpireI 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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National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Video: Ben FitzGerald on VOA News Discussing Spying Charges Against ChinaWASHINGTON — The U.S. indictment of Chinese army officers on charges that they spied on American industries reveals a basic disagreement about what the two nations consider as...
By Ben FitzGerald