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Expert Seminar Addressing China’s Belt and Road Strategy: Perspectives from the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Japan-US Program sponsored an expert seminar on October 25, 2018, to present the report “Power Play: Addressing China’s Belt and Road Strat...
By Abigail Grace
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Asia's meth boomFrom the jungles of Myanmar to the streets of Hong Kong, police throughout Asia are fighting a war against methamphetamine. By many indications, they're losing. Demand for bo...
By Peter Harrell
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China rattles Washington’s tech debates
A common thread is running through nearly every tech debate in Washington these days: fear that an ambitious China is poised to win the next wave of technology. The worry that...
By Ely Ratner
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Announcing the 2018 Shortlist: Young China Watcher of the Year Award
After reviewing dozens of candidates for our first annual Young China Watcher of the Year Award, our nomination committee narrowed the list of highly qualified individuals dow...
By Abigail Grace
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A Chinese intelligence agent has been extradited to the US to face espionage charges
An alleged spy for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) was arrested in Belgium and extradited to the US on accusations he tried to steal trade secrets from US aviatio...
By Abigail Grace
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’The future of human performance is a research race, and the U.S. shouldn’t take its lead for granted, the DIA director says. The U.S. military’s top intelligence officer is in...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Detention of Interpol’s Meng Hongwei ‘harms confidence in Chinese leaders of global bodies’
The disappearance and detention of the Chinese president of the global policing body Interpol as part of Beijing’s anticorruption drive is an unprecedented move that will shak...
By Abigail Grace
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China MisdirectionNear the end of September, before the United Nations, President Donald Trump leveled an extraordinary charge: China was attempting to “meddle” and “interfere” in the upcoming ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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US and Chinese warships came perilously close to collision, and it’s probably going to keep happening
The grainy surveillance photos look like something from the Cold War. But they were captured early this week, when a US Navy destroyer had to change course to avoid colliding ...
By Ely Ratner
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South Korea reveals plan to break stalemate in U.S.-North Korea talks
South Korea is proposing that the United States hold off on a demand for an inventory of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and accept the verified closure of a key North Korean nu...
By Duyeon Kim
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Is China Really Meddling in U.S. Elections?
When U.S. President Donald Trump slapped steel tariffs on the European Union this spring, Brussels responded with what it hoped would be a politically painful set of retaliato...
By Abigail Grace
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How the US-China trade war may be good for Beijing
The opening salvos of the trade war between the US and China were deafening, and while the battle is far from over, a rift between the countries may be beneficial to Beijing i...
By Abigail Grace
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Trump's accusation opens new front in stand-off with China
US President Donald Trump has opened a new front in his stand-off with China on trade, accusing Beijing of interfering with America's elections. The accusation was made on Wed...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Mike Pompeo floats prospect of officially ending Korean War ahead of Trump-Kim summit
Given the Trump administration's goal of a complete, verifiable denuclearization of North Korea during President Trump's first term, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is eager to...
By Duyeon Kim
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China thinks the trade war isn’t really about trade
The trade war is not about trade. The trade war is about the United States trying to contain China and undercut its rise. That’s the increasingly common theory percolating in ...
By Abigail Grace
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South Korea's Moon Jae-in: Caught between Trump and Kim
Moon Jae-in is the man in the middle. The South Korean president has become the mediator between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un and is leading the diplomatic efforts to try to ...
By Duyeon Kim
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Moon Jae-in prepares for make or break inter-Korean summit with Kim Jong-un
The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, will seek to salvage stalled nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the US during a summit with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang on Tues...
By Duyeon Kim
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When Moon travels North, will he return with a gift for Trump?
For the first time since he chose to engage with the world, North Korea's Kim Jong Un has proposed a possible timeline for ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons: by ...
By Duyeon Kim
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China extends Uighur crackdown beyond its borders
After years of persecution by Chinese police, Uighur businessman Mehmet fled his home in northern Xinjiang for neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, only to be harassed by Kyrgyz police an...
By Abigail Grace
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Trump called off top U.S. diplomat’s Pyongyang visit after belligerent letter from North Korea: report
The White House last week canceled a planned trip to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, just hours before the top U.S. diplomat was due to leave, after receiving a b...
By Duyeon Kim