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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
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China ‘Spy Balloon’ Wakes Up World to New Era of War at Edge of Space
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Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific security programme at the Centre for a New American Security in Washington, also suggested that surveillance may turn out to b...
By Jacob Stokes
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Rep. Houlahan on How to End the China ‘Hullaballoon’
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Amid fallout from that Chinese spy balloon transversing the U.S. and the new GOP-led House hinting at broad spending cuts, lawmakers will need to figure out how to strategical...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Rushes to Cap Damage over Suspected Spy Balloon as Blinken Delays Trip
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Previous visits to China by U.S. officials have also been marred by provocative moves. In 2011, hours before receiving Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Beijing, the People’s ...
By Jacob Stokes
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How a Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon over Montana Has Thrown a Wrench in US-China Relations
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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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
