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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Saving the South China Sea Without Starting World War IIIAt present, Australia, Japan, India and South Korea are all active in the Southeast Asian security environment, engaged in everything from arms sales to combined military trai...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Short-Term Victory In the South China SeaThe sands are quickly shifting in the South China Sea. New reports suggest that China may be preparing to conduct land reclamation at Scarborough Shoal, which is seized from t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Prospects for Korean Reunification | Great Decisions Lecture SeriesAs part of the Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Lecture Series, Asia-Pacific Security Program Director Dr. Patrick Cronin joins a panel to discuss the prospects of K...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Commentary: High Stakes at the Sunnylands SummitThe transformation of U.S.–Southeast Asian relations is the least heralded and yet most forward-looking element of President Barack Obama’s rebalance to Asia. At the upcoming ...
By Derwin Pereira & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
North Korea: U.S. intelligence warningsBy Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Confronting China in the South China SeaOn January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
North Korea Ignites a Predictable Chain ReactionNorth Korea’s fourth nuclear test set in motion a predictable chain reaction. I refer not to the precision of nuclear physics, but to the same old policy responses from all re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Mapping Asia's Trajectory: An Australia PerspectiveBy Michèle Flournoy & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Taiwan’s Great RecalibrationThe winds of change that swept Taiwan on Saturday, Jan. 16, propelling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Dr. Tsai Ing-wen to a landslide victory — with nearly doubl...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Phoebe Benich
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Kim Jong Un's motives: North Korea nuclear testOn CNN, Patrick Cronin, Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses Kim Jong Un's possible motives for conducting a nuclear test, which North Korea claims ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Mind Games Behind Obama Arming TaiwanAmerican presidents like to announce major arms sales to Taiwan when they are leaving office. George Herbert Walker Bush announced the sale of nearly $8 billion in hardware, i...
By Harry Krejsa & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Yomiuri-Gallup Survey / Strong support for alliance expressed on both sidesIn the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no closer ally than Japan. The American public at large fully supports Japan’s measured steps to make a more proactive contri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Does China Needs Its Own 'Womenomics'?Any economist will tell you that failing to integrate half of a country’s population into the workforce is economic nonsense — a needless expense that permanently limits growt...
By Harry Krejsa
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Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World
On December 7, 2015, CNAS’s Asia-Pacific Security Program hosted a roundtable discussion on Chinese military modernization and Peter Navarro’s recent book and miniseries on th...
By Harry Krejsa
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Breaking the North Korea Arms Control TabooArms control is one of the more benign tools of statecraft available to governments grappling with hard security problems. It entails diplomatic agreements or external mandate...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Washington's Message in the South China SeaOn October 27, the United States conducted a long-awaited freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. During the operation, the USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burk...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Will the Ma-Xi Meeting Backfire for Taiwan's KMT?The data is in: less than a week after the meeting between Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping, a plurality of Taiwanese believe Ma does not refl...
By Phoebe Benich
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How to Get Kim Jong-un Out of the U.S.-ROK Alliance's 'Head'North Korea remains the most explosive flashpoint in Asia because of the potential for escalation and major war. As the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, puts it,...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What Did The Navy Do In the South China Sea?After the U.S.S. Lassen’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Spratly Islands last week, we wrote that the Lassen and the accompanying P-8 Poseidon aircraft appeare...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Alliance Requirements Roadmap: The OverviewBy Harry Krejsa, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Patrick M. Cronin