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The China Challenge after 2020
Marvin C. Ott
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Analysis
December 10, 2020
Born Again: Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force Revitalization
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
December 04, 2020
Why China’s Vision for a Global Yuan Trampled Ant Group’s IPO
Robert Murray
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Analysis
December 02, 2020
China’s New Pressure on Taiwan in the South China Sea
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
November 16, 2020
Purple State China: China’s Preferences in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election are…Complicated
Jacques deLisle
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Analysis
October 30, 2020
Treading Water: Malaysia’s Navy Modernization
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
October 21, 2020
Domestic Politics in Southeast Asia and Local Backlash against the Belt and Road Initiative
Angus Lam
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Intern Corner
October 15, 2020
Options for Taiwan to Better Compete with China
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Outside Publications
October 14, 2020
China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements—and Why We Should Care
June Teufel Dreyer
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Analysis
October 07, 2020
Uncertain Prospects: South China Sea Code of Conduct Negotiations
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
October 06, 2020
Understanding China’s Digital Yuan
Robert Murray
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Analysis
September 22, 2020
Czech-Book Diplomacy: The Global Implications of a Czech Visit to Taiwan
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
September 02, 2020
China-Taiwan Competition over Somaliland and Implications for Small Countries
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
August 28, 2020
From Pivot to Defiance: American Policy Shift in the South China Sea
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
August 24, 2020
The Legacy of Taiwan’s Lee Teng-hui
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Jacques deLisle
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Expert Commentary
August 07, 2020
No Sanctuary: China’s New Territorial Dispute with Bhutan
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
July 29, 2020
Whither Hong Kong: Beijing Imposes a “National Security Law”
June Teufel Dreyer
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Analysis
July 15, 2020
India in the Balance
Marvin C. Ott
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Analysis
July 07, 2020
Taiwan Finds an Unexpected New Friend in Somaliland
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
July 01, 2020
Making Sense of the Recent China-India Clashes
Harsh V. Pant
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Revisiting Orbis
June 26, 2020
Massif Brawl: China and India Clash in the Himalayas
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
June 26, 2020
On the Sidelines: Trump Gives Up the WHO—and Makes America Weaker
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
June 02, 2020
Assessing North Korea’s COVID-19 Containment and Kim Jong-un’s Political Challenges
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
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Analysis
May 29, 2020
China’s Two Meetings: Much Uncertainty and Few Answers
June Teufel Dreyer
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Analysis
May 28, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 13: Chaos in Hong Kong, A Georgian Anniversary, and Military Moves in Libya
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Aaron Stein
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Maia Otarashvili
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Expert Commentary
May 28, 2020
Social Distancing: Australia’s Relations with China
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
May 22, 2020
Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen Begins Her Second Term amid a Pandemic
Jacques deLisle
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June Teufel Dreyer
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Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang
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Thomas J. Shattuck
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Expert Commentary
May 20, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 12: Taiwan’s International Stock Rises as Turkey’s Falls
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
May 14, 2020
Taiwan and the WHO in 2020: A Novel Virus and Viral Politics
Jacques deLisle
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Analysis
May 13, 2020
Pursuing Politics through Legal Means: U.S. Efforts to Hold China Responsible for COVID-19
Jacques deLisle
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Analysis
May 12, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 11: Political Shake-up in Ukraine and Baseball Returns in Asia
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
May 07, 2020
Lack of Demand: The Coronavirus Pandemic and China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
April 27, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 9: Space Launches and Growing Authoritarian Crackdowns
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
April 23, 2020
The Streisand Effect Gets Geopolitical: China’s (Unintended) Amplification of Taiwan
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
April 14, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 7: Turkish Economic Problems, China’s Human Rights, and Progress in the War in Ukraine
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
April 09, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 6: U.S.-China Relations at a Standstill
Jacques deLisle
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Thomas J. Shattuck
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Expert Commentary
April 07, 2020
How North Korea Wages Political Warfare at Home and Abroad…and How to Respond
Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
The Race to Zero?: China’s Poaching of Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Weaponized Interdependence: China’s Economic Statecraft and Social Penetration against Taiwan
Chia-Chien Chang
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Alan H. Yang
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Beijing’s Hard and Soft Repression in Hong Kong
Victoria Tin-bor Hui
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Evolving Principles and Guiding Concepts: How China Gains African Support for its Core National Interests
Amb. David Shinn
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Joshua Eisenman
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
China’s Changing Political Warfare: The Case of Japan
June Teufel Dreyer
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Evaluating the Logic and Methods of China’s United Front Work
Toshi Yoshihara
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Shaping the Post-Liberal Order from Within: China’s Influence and Interference Operations in Australia and the United States
Michael Clarke
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Jennifer S. Hunt
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Matthew Sussex
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Foreign Policy through Other Means: Hard Power, Soft Power, and China’s Turn to Political Warfare to Influence the United States
Jacques deLisle
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Political Warfare, Sharp Power, the U.S., and East Asia
Jacques deLisle
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Analysis
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Orbis
April 06, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 5: And Now For Something Completely Different
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
April 02, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 4: The U.S. “Angers” China and North Macedonia Joins NATO
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
March 31, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 2: U.S. Marines Prepare for China and Russia Prepares to Vote
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Maia Otarashvili
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Aaron Stein
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Expert Commentary
March 24, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, Part 1: News Stories You Should Pay Attention To
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Aaron Stein
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Maia Otarashvili
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Expert Commentary
March 19, 2020
North Korea Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place: One Year after the Hanoi Summit
Artyom Lukin
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Analysis
March 10, 2020
Asian Politics in Time of Corona
June Teufel Dreyer
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Analysis
March 02, 2020
Transitional justice has just begun
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Outside Publications
March 01, 2020
What North Korea’s Coronavirus Measures Say About Its System
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
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Analysis
February 19, 2020
The Coronavirus Comes for Taiwan
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Outside Publications
February 17, 2020
Taiwan’s Reckoning with the White Terror
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Orbis
January 28, 2020
The Next Front: China and Indonesia in the South China Sea
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
January 27, 2020
Myanmar in China’s Embrace
Marvin C. Ott
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Analysis
January 24, 2020
The Future of the Kuomintang in Taiwan: Reform, Recalibrate, or Stay the Course?
Thomas J. Shattuck
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Analysis
January 16, 2020
A Faint Breeze of Change: Malaysia’s Relations with China
Felix K. Chang
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Analysis
January 08, 2020