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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
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Blinken postpones China trip as suspected spy balloon detected over U.S.
“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?
“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?
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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Why the Discovery of a Chinese Balloon in Us Skies Is Such a Big Deal
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
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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China Makes Polar Plunge in Brazen Land-Grab as It Eyes Expansion to Antarctica
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
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
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
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
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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China’s COVID Narrative Is Backfiring
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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Biden Treads Lightly in Response to COVID Protests in China
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
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China’s Freeze on Taiwan Contact Fuels Worry as Tensions Build
The lack of dialogue has become more concerning as cross-strait tensions have intensified, said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. "We ne...
By Jacob Stokes
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Factbox: Top Takeaways from the Biden-Xi Meeting in Bali
On North Korea, Biden said he made it clear to Xi that China had an obligation to make sure North Korea did not resume nuclear testing, although it was difficult to determine ...
By Jacob Stokes
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China’s Global Security Initiative: Xi’s Wedge in the U.S.-Led Order
In Chinese state media, the GSI is described as "another global public good offered by China" that will contribute "Chinese solutions and wisdom for solving security challenge...
By Jacob Stokes
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Analysts Discuss China Coup That Wasn't
Most outside analysts believe that by sidelining people like Li and Wang, who favored a greater role for market forces in the Chinese economy, Xi has cleared the way for bring...
By Jacob Stokes
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Taiwan National Day: Tsai Ing-wen Takes On The Giant with American Backing
Not long after Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei, the US State Department, headed by Antony Blinken, announced the sale of more than a billion dollars worth of military equipment...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Aims to Turn Taiwan into Giant Weapons Depot
The United States would not be able to resupply Taiwan as easily as Ukraine because of the lack of ground routes from neighboring countries. The goal now, officials say, is to...
By Jacob Stokes