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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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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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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 / 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 / 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
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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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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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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 eraGlobal trade watchers breathed a sigh of relief on January 15, 2020. After two years of threats, tariffs and tweets, there was finally a truce in the trade war between the U....
By Anja Manuel
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s Disinformation Campaign Targets Virus, Researcher SaysAn army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, incl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Democrats demand intel on coronavirus origins
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Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Oth...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Chinese propaganda tactics shifting to elevate, amplify Russian disinformation
Chinese Communist Party tactics have shifted to imitate classic Russian disinformation campaigns, as well as amplify bogus stories from Moscow to pin the blame for coronavirus...
By Kristine Lee
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Who is winning the China-US race to run the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic?
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In 2018, President Xi Jinping said China would “take an active part in leading the reform of the global governance system”, as part of an effort to build “a community with a s...
By Kristine Lee
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Matthew Pottinger faced Communist China’s intimidation as a reporter. He’s now at the White House shaping Trump’s hard line policy toward Beijing.
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In February, as President Trump was projecting confidence that China’s Xi Jinping had the coronavirus under control, his deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger rec...
By Ely Ratner
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Jack Ma: The billionaire trying to stop coronavirus (and fix China's reputation)The richest man in China opened his own Twitter account last month, in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak. So far, every one of his posts has been devoted to his unrivalled c...
By Ashley Feng
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Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say
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The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the c...
By Kristine Lee
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Pentagon Getting a Push to Shift Resources to Asia
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A push to shift U.S. military resources to Asia to counter Chinese influence is drawing new support in Congress, where a leading lawmaker wants to compel the Pentagon to inves...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House
President Trump is not happy with the World Health Organization. He is not the only one. On Tuesday, in the middle of a global pandemic, Trump announced that he is freezing f...
By Kristine Lee
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China Wins: Why Trump's WHO Funding Cut is a Gift to Beijing
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When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended U.S. payments to the agency, President Donald Tr...
By Kristine Lee
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles?In a world where geopolitical power is increasingly linked to technological advancement, the U.S. has long led its rivals. American companies make some of the world’s fastest ...
By Elsa B. Kania
