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U.S. senior officials caught off-guard by Biden's calling Xi a 'dictator'
In The News
For now, administration officials said they hope that this controversy passes quickly and that Beijing’s economic concerns don’t allow it to derail plans for visits from the U...
By Jacob Stokes
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Military bases and Biden quips complicate thaw of U.S.-China ties
In The News
The question now is if those guardrails are strong enough to withstand the pressures from these latest setbacks. “U.S. diplomatic efforts toward China are predicated on intens...
By Jacob Stokes
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Blinken China's trip likely to bring only temporary relief for tensions
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Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security argued against taking too negative a view of the meetings, saying that simply by meeting Blinken, Xi si...
By Jacob Stokes
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Blinken meets with Xi amid mounting U.S.-China tensions
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The roughly 35-minute meeting with Xi in the Great Hall of the People was seen as a critical sign to the trip’s success, though it wasn’t confirmed ahead of time. After Xi met...
By Jacob Stokes
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Why Blinken’s Big Trip to China Could Already Be Doomed
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Despite the growing tensions, the Biden administration recognizes that it’s necessary to run the traps on diplomacy even when disagreements crop up, Jacob Stokes, a former nat...
By Jacob Stokes
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With Blinken trip, US and China seek stability but no breakthroughs
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Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said that Blinken's trip showed a new stage in the US relationship with China -- trying to maintain st...
By Jacob Stokes
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Documents in Trump Indictment Were Among Nation’s Most Closely Guarded
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“The pictures of classified materials strewn about insecure spaces evoke a visceral reaction for the thousands of current and former national security officials who, during th...
By Jacob Stokes
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‘Little Nato’: will Biden’s G7 unity push create an ‘economic iron curtain’?
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Jacob Stokes, senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Programme, said the aim of Biden’s trip was to convey the message that the US was...
By Jacob Stokes
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China unlikely to play peacemaker role in Ukraine war, Western officials and experts say
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China increasingly presents itself as a powerful state with global reach, but its approach to diplomacy remains cautious. There is no precedent for it plunging into a difficul...
By Jacob Stokes
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Joe Biden Says US Commitment to Defending Philippines Is ‘Iron Clad’
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Jacob Stokes, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank, said the statement on Monday further clarified when the defence commitment would be triggered. “That’s an importan...
By Jacob Stokes
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US Flexes Muscles in Asia as Tensions Flare around Tsai Visit
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At the same time, Washington has been using its military to do most of the talking, according to Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Cente...
By Jacob Stokes
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Analysis: China, Taiwan, US Share Interest in Avoiding Crisis over California Visit
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A spokesperson for China's Washington embassy said that "no matter how packaged," the McCarthy meeting would be a serious violation of China’s sovereignty and "do great harm t...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Alarmed over Russia's Support of China Nuclear Buildup
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The Biden administration has found that China is dramatically expanding its nuclear capabilities. In an annual report released last November, the Pentagon estimated that China...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden’s AUKUS Point Man to Exit
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"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
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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
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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
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"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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Putin-Xi Meeting Threatens Chinese Curveball in Russia’s War
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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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Before They Floated Abroad, China’s Spy Balloons Were Already Used at Home
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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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U.S. Shoots Down Fourth Object as China Levels New Accusation
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“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
