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CNAS Responds: Week One of the Biden PresidencyA week in, the Biden administration has made a series of moves across national security policy. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack key developments and possible outcom...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Chris Dougherty, Jason Bartlett, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth, Emma Moore, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Rachel Ziemba
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Geopolitics at Stake in US Response to China’s Digital Yuan: ReportChina is leading the world in the development and piloting of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). With that lead comes increased scrutiny and concerns over the downstream ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Trump's Gone, But North Korea Tensions Still Loom in US-South Korea Alliance
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After U.S. President Joe Biden took office last week, perhaps no world leader breathed a bigger public sigh of relief than South Korean President Moon Jae-in. “America is bac...
By Duyeon Kim
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and ChinaBeijing’s rush for antisatellite arms began 15 years ago. Now, it can threaten the orbital fleets that give the United States military its technological edge. Advanced weapons...
By Greg Grant
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North Korea’s Kim could be planning missile launch to welcome Biden administration
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North Korea appears to be taking steps toward a new test of a powerful submarine-launched missile, U.S. weapons experts said, as it steadily dials up the pressure on President...
By Duyeon Kim
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Pompeo, Who Led Trump’s Mission at State Dept., Leaves With a Dubious Legacy
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Spurned by many foreign allies, ridiculed by adversaries, disliked by a significant number of his own diplomats and trying to preserve his political future, Secretary of State...
By Richard Fontaine
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If Kim Jong Un destroyed North Korea's economy to keep Covid-19 out, will sanctions stop him from pursuing nuclear weapons?
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After arguably the most challenging year of his near-decade rule of North Korea, Kim Jong Un is sticking to his guns. Kim announced last week at the Eighth Workers' Party Cong...
By Duyeon Kim
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'Your move, Mr President': North Korea sets the stage for Biden
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un celebrated his birthday with a long wish-list of new weapons. It included more accurate long-range missiles, super large warheads, spy satellit...
By Duyeon Kim
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South Korea urges Kim Jong Un to return to nuclear talks
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South Korean president Moon Jae-in has urged Kim Jong Un to return to talks with Seoul and Washington, as uncertainty builds over how Joe Biden's incoming administration will ...
By Duyeon Kim
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Facebook’s push into Asia-Pacific runs into political hurdlesFacebook is pushing hard into developing Asian markets as the pace of its growth in the west slows, but a growing array of political stand-offs is threatening its relentless g...
By Coby Goldberg
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Van Jackson on Getting Biden’s Asia Policy Right
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In January 2021, the norm-destroying administration of Donald J. Trump comes to an end in the United States. Many in Asia will breathe a sigh of relief to see former Vice Pres...
By Van Jackson
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
California Mine Becomes Key Part of Push to Revive US Rare Earths ProcessingIn 2021, a more than 70-year-old mine in California’s Mojave Desert will become the center of an effort to revive an American mineral refining system that some say is critical...
By Martijn Rasser
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Kim Jong Un to unveil new economic plan as North Korea crisis deepens
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will chair a five-year gathering of senior officials early in the new year, state media said, which is expected to include the unveiling of a n...
By Duyeon Kim
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Biden slams Chinese abuses, stresses security and prosperity in Indo-Pacific
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US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday slammed China once again for “abuses” on trade, technology and human rights and said America can best pursue its goals relative to Beiji...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korea prepares for major party congress amid growing challenges
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will convene a rare congress of the ruling party in early January, where he will seek to rally public support and outline new long-term economi...
By Duyeon Kim
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Joe Biden’s 5 Tech PrioritiesPresident-elect Joe Biden’s transition team describes its animating philosophy as “build back better.” It’s both a nod to the Trump administration’s penchant for paring back t...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer SecretsBack in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app. Shor trained ...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?The U.S. added China's biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move that will further widen the gap between China’s c...
By Martijn Rasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Nato has joined US in regarding China as a ‘risk’ to security, US envoy saysAmerica and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrived “late to the game” but now see clearly that China is a “risk”, Kay Bailey Hutchison, the US envoy to N...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Policy on China May Move From ‘America First’ to America & Co.In tech, Metcalfe’s Law posits that a network becomes more useful in proportion to the number of its users, squared. That means big networks are much more valuable than small ...
By Martijn Rasser
