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Kim Jong Un cuts communication lines with South Korea
In The News
North Korea will cut all communications with South Korea in what experts say is the latest gamble by Kim Jong Un to pressure Washington over economic sanctions. According to K...
By Van Jackson
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China eases foreign travel limit after US threat
China has said it will loosen restrictions on international air travel that were put in place to control coronavirus. The move came hours after the US pushed Beijing to allow ...
By Daniel Kliman
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Breaking China: A rupture looms between Israel and the United StatesIsrael’s announcement last week that an Israeli consortium would build Sorek 2, the world’s largest desalination plant, surprised many who had been watching the deal: The cont...
By Vance Serchuk
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to SolvePresident Donald Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are harder to resolv...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump announces unprecedented action against China
President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Beijing Friday, naming misdeeds that range from espionage to the violation of Hong Kong's freedoms, and announced a slew...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic valuesThe setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Inhofe, Reed back new military fund to confront China
In The News
As the U.S. Congress hardens against Beijing, two key lawmakers publicly added their support for a new military fund to boost deterrence against China in the Pacific, virtuall...
By Eric Sayers
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Press Note
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Beijing Escalates Crackdown on Hong KongChina's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, is poised to consider a new national security law to tighten Beijing's vise on Hong Kong. By circumventing th...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, Kristine Lee, Ashley Feng & Joshua Fitt
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China in the global spotlight as its annual political congress gets underway
In The News
The huge and highly choreographed set piece of the Chinese political calendar got underway Friday with around 3,000 Communist Party officials and military delegates descending...
By Kristine Lee
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Cold War 2.0: How Trump's Attacks on China Could Backfire
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In September of 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., penned what would become known as the Novikov Telegram, which assessed the foreign policy of Presiden...
By Kristine Lee
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Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen riding high into second term as Trump fights China
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged China’s Xi Jinping to “find a way to coexist” with the island’s democratic government, as she started her second term riding high with a...
By Ashley Feng
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—EasyIn 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrol...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
For most of Afghanistan war, U.S. ‘never really fought to win,’ Trump declaresPresident Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two-decade-long war, making a sweeping st...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pandemic Shatters World Order, Sowing Anger and Mistrust
While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across much of the globe, political and business leaders are already starting to think about what the world might look like once th...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
China emerges as potential strain on US-Israel relationshipIncreasingly close ties between China and Israel risk straining the special relationship Israel has with the U.S., especially as Washington ramps up its feud with Beijing over...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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When it comes to coronavirus response, superpowers may need to study smaller nations
In The News
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the international hierarchy. Three of the world’s great powers — the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia — have the largest and m...
By Van Jackson
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Chip titan TSMC caught in crossfire between US and ChinaNot even the coronavirus pandemic is stopping the vast expansion plans of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. In the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, in tropical sunshin...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The Great DecouplingThe U.S. ambassador on the spot in an Asian economic powerhouse put it bluntly in a cable to the secretary of state in Washington: Don’t cut them off. Give them some “economic...
By Ashley Feng
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Chinese military action plausible as its leaders feel backed into a corner
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China’s anger at taking international blame for the coronavirus pandemic has raised the likelihood that Beijing will order a rare assault against a smaller neighbor, U.S. obse...
By Eric Sayers
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Anja Manuel Discusses U.S.-China Relations on Bloomberg Daybreak AsiaAnja Manuel, former US State Department official, Director of the Aspen Security Forum, author of This Brave New World: China, India and the U.S. She discussed the rise in US-...
By Anja Manuel
