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Trump's Asia Trip: Personal Diplomacy or U.S. Diplomacy
President Trump’s five-country trip to Asia in early November provided an opportunity for Trump to address some important issues for the United States, specifically strategies...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Where Washington’s North Korea policy goes from here
Donald Trump’s first ten months have been whirlwind for North Korea watchers. From “fire and fury” to “maybe someday he will be my friend”, it’s been an unusual time to have a...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Donald Trump returns North Korea to US list of terrorism sponsors
Donald Trump has put North Korea back on a US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after almost a decade, as his administration intensifies efforts to convince Pyongyang to a...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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'It's a Mistake to Underestimate China'
BEIJING—At the recent APEC CEO Summit in Vietnam, President Donald Trump said the United States would refocus its existing development efforts in Asia toward infrastructure in...
By Daniel Kliman
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Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
As he traveled across Asia, President Trump touted a flurry of multibillion-dollar military sales and one-off business deals with nations he visited. Upon his return to the Wh...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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CNAS Commentary: Responding to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Press Note
Washington, November 13 – The past week has seen the beginning of a U.S. response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – a trillion-dollar infrastructure play by Beijing ...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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President Trump Visits Asia
On this edition of Encounter, Walter Lohman, Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation and Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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China Has A Breakthrough in Spy-Proof Quantum Communications
A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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An Emboldened Xi Will Greet a Troubled Trump in China
President Donald Trump arrives in China with a first-year record that includes sagging approval ratings and an investigation into Russia’s connections to his campaign, but als...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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CNAS Press Notes on the President’s Trip to Asia
Press Note
Washington, November 2 – As President Trump prepares for his critical trip to Asia, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program has prepared a ...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Daniel Kliman
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Kushner will take a diminished role on Trump's China trip
Back in December 2016, the Chinese foreign minister traveled to Manhattan to meet privately with Jared Kushner for emergency discussions after President-elect Donald Trump’s u...
By Harry Krejsa
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US agrees to provide South Korea more weapons, upgraded defenses
US PACIFIC COMMAND, Hawaii ― South Korea will buy more U.S. weapons, develop more advanced missiles and receive a more consistent presence of U.S. military nuclear weapons to ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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CNAS’ Cronin on Asia-Pacific Strategy, Trade, Deterring North Korea
Patrick Cronin, PhD, senior advisor and senior director of the Center for a New American Security’s Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses how the US can accomplish strategi...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump is heading to Asia with an ambitious agenda he’ll probably be unable to deliver
Starting on Friday, President Donald Trump will be visiting several Asian countries until November 14 — he’ll be stopping in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and The Philip...
By Harry Krejsa
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Tillerson visits Afghanistan as US ramps up campaign against militants
US secretary of state Rex Tillerson made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday, hoping to cement Donald Trump’s new strategy and ramp up the political and military pre...
By Stephen Tankel
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US, South Korea Stand United Against Kim Ahead of Trump’s Asia Trip
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in could be set to take an international good cop/bad cop approach in handling the North Korean nuclear threat, one ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Closer U.S.-India Ties Make Strategic Sense. What’s Holding Them Back?
When U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his new strategy for the Afghan war in August, he called on India to become more involved in Afghanistan’s security. Secretary of Def...
By Richard Fontaine
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Uncle Sam is here to stay
Speaking at the sixth Maritime Institute of Malaysia South China Sea Conference, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia Pacific Security Programme at CNAS (Centre for ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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What the U.S. is actually getting right on North Korea
It's tempting to give into doom and gloom when we think of North Korea policy. The rapid advances in Pyongyang's weapons technology, coupled with its provocative propaganda ab...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Mattis Discloses Part of Afghanistan Battle Plan, but It Hasn’t Yet Been Carried Out
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, normally reluctant to speak publicly about American troops deployed around the globe, took a different tack this week on Capitol Hil...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
