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How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea
China’s outposts present additional potential threats for the U.S. military to track and counter. Three of the outposts in the Spratly group of islands are full-fledged milita...
By Tom Shugart
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Biden’s AUKUS Point Man to Exit
"What makes AUKUS so challenging is you have to coordinate with the defense industrial base, Pentagon, the armed services, the Hill, the State Department, and these countries ...
By Jacob Stokes
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US-China Downward Spiral Raises Fresh Fears of Eventual Conflict
The dueling narratives brought into sharp focus how the US and China increasingly have one thing in common: a growing distrust of the other side. Even worse, the escalating rh...
By Jacob Stokes
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After Brief Window, US-China Relationship Back On Rocky Path
The meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit came three months after China staged major military exercises in fury after Nancy Pelosi, then US House speaker, defiantly...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Feels Squeeze from Both Sides of Ukraine
"Beijing worries about a total defeat of Moscow, which would leave China without its most powerful and committed partner in global affairs," said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow...
By Jacob Stokes
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Satellite photos show expansion of Chinese-funded naval base in CambodiaA number of new structures have been built at the center of the base, one of which resembles a cement plant to provide for the whole project, according to Tom Shugart, Adjunct...
By Tom Shugart
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Putin-Xi Meeting Threatens Chinese Curveball in Russia’s War
Xi may also recognize that his closest partner on the world stage needs some propping up, Jacob Stokes, a former national security aide to Biden and former acting special advi...
By Jacob Stokes
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US draft resolution on Arunachal in hands of senator who once warned of sanctions against India
Experts, however, point out that the recent resolution on Arunachal Pradesh introduced in the Senate supports India’s “diversification” of military purchases — a point that is...
By Lisa Curtis
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The Post-cold War Era Is Gone. A New Arms Race Has ArrivedMany lessons from the war in Ukraine have less to do with hardware than the softer issues of logistics, training and strategy that have no borders. “The Russians showed how de...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Before They Floated Abroad, China’s Spy Balloons Were Already Used at Home
In 2018, the Academy of Opto-Electronics organized the China Aerostat Conference in Beijing with the theme of “military-civilian integration”; in 2017, the academy attended a ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Seoul's integration into Quad will benefit all parties
Speaking to The Korea Times, Joshua Fitt, an associate fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), said the Quad is not likel...
By Joshua Fitt
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What the U.S. Is Doing to Curtail Chinese Land OwnershipChina has maintained the first aircraft was a wayward civilian weather balloon and has not been named by U.S. officials as the source of the others. Tom Shugart, a senior fell...
By Tom Shugart
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U.S. Shoots Down Fourth Object as China Levels New Accusation
“We have probably reached peak media and political frenzy related to the PRC spy balloon,” said Jacob Stokes, a former Obama administration foreign policy adviser who is now a...
By Jacob Stokes
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China ‘Spy Balloon’ Wakes Up World to New Era of War at Edge of Space
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific security programme at the Centre for a New American Security in Washington, also suggested that surveillance may turn out to b...
By Jacob Stokes
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Is This the Face of North Korea’s Future Leader? Kim Jong Un Shows Off His Daughter
An official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to department rules during a background briefing, said Kim Ju Ae’s repeated ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Rep. Houlahan on How to End the China ‘Hullaballoon’
Amid fallout from that Chinese spy balloon transversing the U.S. and the new GOP-led House hinting at broad spending cuts, lawmakers will need to figure out how to strategical...
By Jacob Stokes
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Atomic Strait: How China's Nuclear Buildup Shapes Security Dynamics with Taiwan and the United States
For more information or to schedule an interview with the report authors, please contact Cameron Edinburgh at [email protected]...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Rushes to Cap Damage over Suspected Spy Balloon as Blinken Delays Trip
Previous visits to China by U.S. officials have also been marred by provocative moves. In 2011, hours before receiving Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Beijing, the People’s ...
By Jacob Stokes
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How a Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon over Montana Has Thrown a Wrench in US-China Relations
Grid spoke with Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security, to get at the questions — about the balloon, the ...
By Jacob Stokes
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A Balloon Clouds U.S. View on Xi’s China
Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said that a balloon floating over US airspace was a more tangible concern for Americans than the myria...
By Jacob Stokes