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Blinken postpones China trip as suspected spy balloon detected over U.S.
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“All countries, especially competitors like the United States and China, spy on each other. It’s a fact of international relations, and has been forever,” said Jacob Stokes, a...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden Wants to Avoid a Clash with China. Can His Top Diplomat Succeed?
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“The administration’s goals of risk reduction are pretty straight forward: Whether they’ll be able to achieve it is the real question,” said Jacob Stokes, a China expert at th...
By Jacob Stokes
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General’s Memo Spurs Debate: Could China Invade Taiwan by 2025?
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Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow focused on U.S.-China relations at the Center for a New American Security, also viewed the memo as a call to prepare for any scenario, whenever i...
By Jacob Stokes
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Philippines Grants US Access to Four Military Bases
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Galvez and Austin said the two countries were also working to step up the secure exchange of information between their defence establishments and increase combined training. T...
By Lisa Curtis
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The U.S. Could Knock the Chinese Balloon out the Sky, but It’s Risky
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The United States has missiles in its arsenal capable of obliterating the balloon even at an altitude of 60,000 feet, but the falling wreckage could pose a danger to people on...
By Joshua Fitt
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Why the Discovery of a Chinese Balloon in Us Skies Is Such a Big Deal
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The discovery is a severe incident, said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security, and one that is testing how the U.S. and Chinese can cool t...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden Aims to Deter China with Greater U.S. Military Presence in Philippines
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The announcement, made in Manila by Lloyd J. Austin III, the U.S. defense secretary, was only the latest in a series of moves by the Biden administration to strengthen militar...
By Jacob Stokes
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India, US Are Ready to Break Down Barriers to Closer Technology and Defence Cooperation: Experts
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Announced during US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral talks in Tokyo in May last year, the iCET is spearheaded by the National Security Councils...
By Lisa Curtis
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China Makes Polar Plunge in Brazen Land-Grab as It Eyes Expansion to Antarctica
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On the other side of the world, China is expanding its footprint in Antarctica to become a “polar great power” by the end of the decade. “China has an interest in being seen a...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Targets Chinese Company in Broader Russia Sanctions Push
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Officials are still trying to gauge how China might respond to evidence of Chinese companies aiding the Russian war effort, said Jacob Stokes, a former Obama administration fo...
By Jacob Stokes
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China’s Frozen Frontier: Antarctica Next on List in Quest for Pole-to-Pole Power
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Beijing has used its economic clout and growing military strength to assert a role as a “near-Arctic” state to seek a security and economic role as a warming globe makes Arcti...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Expands Training of Taiwanese Military with National Guard
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The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2021 that a U.S. special operation unit and a contingent of Marines were training the Taiwanese military in Taiwan for at least a y...
By Jacob Stokes
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Japan Sells Tokyo as Us Linchpin of Security against China, Russia
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Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, called it “an incredibly important time” in Japan’s defense policy...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden Aides Struggle to Respond to Taliban’s Latest Curbs on Women
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Lisa Curtis, who oversaw Afghanistan at the National Security Council in the Trump administration, argued that Biden aides should use sanctions as well as other tools to press...
By Lisa Curtis
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US Not Discussing Nuclear Exercises with South Korea, Biden Says
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"South Korean concerns and wishes are understandable, but the US won't be able to jointly discuss nuclear plans to the degree that Seoul wants. That's still a bridge way too f...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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North Korea’s Weapons Programme Defies COVID Outbreak, Reaches ‘Uncharted Territory’
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The United States and its allies in South Korea and Japan have since turned to displays of military force, including joint drills and deployments of U.S. aircraft carriers and...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Stronger, Faster, Higher: How North Korea Built a Fearsome Missile Arsenal
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The warheads of tactical nuclear weapons have less explosive power but are meant for battlefield use, attacking specific targets relatively close to the launch point. Targeti...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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China’s COVID Narrative Is Backfiring
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The Chinese government wanted “to make an argument that in the capitalist United States, in democracy, they let loose because the government needed to force you back to work, ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Seventh Meeting of Astana Club Puts Global Relations into Spotlight
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Concerning the challenges confronting Central Asian countries, Frankopan underlined that much relies on which of the neighbors is prioritized – Russia or China. According to t...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden Treads Lightly in Response to COVID Protests in China
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Outside observers and analysts are categorizing the outbreak of protests as an unprecedented rebuke of Xi’s rule, after he secured in October an unprecedented third, five-year...
By Jacob Stokes
