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RN Breakfast Program: What China wants from the US-North Korean summit
Podcast
As US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have arrived in Singapore for Tuesday's historic summit, offstage, China is controlling some of the action. CN...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Asean is the fulcrum of a free and open Indo-Pacific
More than half a year has elapsed since President Donald Trump's inaugural Asian tour, during which he announced a US vision of a "free and open Indo-Pacific". The bare bones ...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Abigail Grace
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Trump Leaves the Door Open for Another North Korea Summit
The Trump administration’s announcement that they will postpone the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled that they are committed to a good deal for t...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Abigail Grace
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Trump team praises brutal North Korean leader
Video
President Donald Trump changes tone on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, CNN's Brian Todd reports. CNAS’s Patrick Cronin speaks on Kim Jong-un’s ultimate objectives in neg...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Don't 'underestimate' Kim Jong Un's tactics, says expert
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Patrick Cronin of the Center for a New American Security says North Korea is trying to narrow down the negotiating position of the U.S. on the topic of denuclearization.Watch ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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President Trump’s Strategy and Style Better for North Korea Than Iran
Commentary
American presidents have long found double-trouble in managing Iran and North Korea. The two countries are separated by four thousand miles and starkly different histories, bu...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Sarah Donilon
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Values Diplomacy
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CNAS’s Patrick Cronin joins J. James Kim, Michael J. Green, Hikotani Takako, and James B. Steinberg for a discussion on values diplomacy at the Asan Plenum 2018 Night Session....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump's Personal Approach To Policy On Display Ahead Of N. Korea Summit
Podcast
President Trump says he will greet three Americans released from North Korea when they land in the U.S. early on Thursday. Trump tweeted out the news exactly a week...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Could North Korea Help Bring the United States and China Closer Together?
Commentary
North Korea is Asia’s most immediate security threat, but confrontation between China and the United States remains the main long-term risk to regional prosperity and stabilit...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Will China’s New Trade/Debt Diplomacy Strategy Reshape The World?
The nationalistic China Dream represents the ambitious choreography of the Chinese Communist Party. Sino-centrism is apparent in the original formulation of “One Belt, One Roa...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Transcript: Discussion on Growing Gray Zone Challenges in the East China Sea
Discussion on Growing Gray Zone Challenges in the East China Sea A Special Launch Event for No Safe Harbor: Countering Aggression in the East China Sea by Patrick Cronin, Dan...
By Cara Abercrombie, Patrick M. Cronin, Jonathan W. Greenert, Daniel Kliman & Yuki Tatsumi
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Trump Is the Peacemaker Korea Has Always Needed
Coming against all odds, enduring withering criticism, and facing deep cynicism, Donald Trump announced his decision to become the first sitting American president to meet Nor...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Can South Korea Really Defuse the North's Nuclear Threat?
South Korea’s high-powered envoys sent to Pyongyang to prepare for a possible summit have apparently extracted from Kim Jong Un’s regime an idea that many on the outside assum...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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5 Myths About Trump’s North Korea Policy
The Trump administration’s strategy for handling North Korea is bold and consistent under pressure. That has not stopped critics from distorting the record of America’s recent...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Deepening the US-Indonesian Strategic Partnership
Commentary
Indonesia is a huge archipelago, the most populous predominantly Muslim country in the world, and the most consequential nation in Southeast Asia. Indonesia may have a relativ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Maximum Pressure: A Clarifying Signal in the Noise of North Korea Policy
At the height of the Roman Empire two thousand years ago, the Stoic philosopher Seneca counseled that any quest for a fulfilling life should begin with a clear objective: “Our...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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CNAS Commentary: Maximum Pressure AND Engagement after the SOTU
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union pledge of "total American resolve" to denuclearize North Korea signals that we are now in a period of heightened danger in Northeas...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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PacNet #10 - Olympic Pause: Testing, Not Trusting North Korea
South Korean President Moon Jae-in faces mounting domestic criticism for inviting North Korea to participate in the Winter Olympics. Although Kim Jong Un is reaping favorable...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Dr. Patrick Cronin on Fox: Is a new Cold War with China brewing?
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China continues to build up its military force in response to the administration's America First policy. What does this mean for the future of the U.S.-China relationship? Dr...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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US Alliances and Trump’s ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Policy
Commentary
Any single year’s events can mask the true direction of longer-term trends. Time will tell, but I believe this is the case with respect to US policy toward the Asia-Pacific re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
