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CNAS 2016 Tenth Annual Conference: A Discussion on Asia-Pacific Security with Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson
MIRA RAPP-HOOPER: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today for this lunchtime discussion on Asia-Pacific security. My name is Mira Rapp-Hooper and I’m ...
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CNAS 2016 Tenth Annual Conference: The Obama Legacy and America’s Role in the World
MS. : (In progress) – of the Center for a New American Security, joined in 2008 – (inaudible) – 15 months on foreign affairs, including – (inaudible). MR. ...
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Dynamic Rebalance: An Alliance Requirements Roadmap
On May 26, 2016, CNAS hosted a rollout event for the Asia-Pacific Security Program’s latest report titled “Dynamic Rebalance: An Alliance Requirements Roadmap.” The authors be...
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U.S. ‘Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Is Dangerous
If China were to attack Taiwan, would American forces come to the island’s defense? It is hard to know because the U.S. maintains a policy of “strategic ambiguity” concerning ...
By Elbridge Colby
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The liberal international order is under fire. The United States must defend it.
Hardly a day goes by without evidence that the liberal international order of the past seven decades is being eroded. China and Russia are attempting to fashion a world in the...
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Notable & Quotable: Anarchy in the 21st Century
From foreign-affairs analyst Robert D. Kaplan's "The Post-Imperial Moment: Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century" in the May-June issue of the National...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How China Sees World Order
China's rapid ascent to great-power status has, more than any other international development, raised concerns about the future of the liberal international order. Forged in t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Richard Fontaine
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Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program, testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “China and the U.S. Rebala...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Protecting the Rule of Law on the South China Sea
Later this year, The Hague is expected to render its decision in a dispute over China’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea. Most observers expect the court to rul...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Saving the South China Sea Without Starting World War III
At present, Australia, Japan, India and South Korea are all active in the Southeast Asian security environment, engaged in everything from arms sales to combined military trai...
By Van Jackson
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China Looms Large in Australia's New Strategy
For a middle power, Australia has long defined its national interests in very broad terms. It has sent its troops alongside U.S. forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, and over the y...
By Richard Fontaine
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China's Short-Term Victory In the South China Sea
The sands are quickly shifting in the South China Sea. New reports suggest that China may be preparing to conduct land reclamation at Scarborough Shoal, which is seized from t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What the U.S.-China Experience Can Teach About Iran’s Future
The results from Iran’s recent elections indicate that reformists and moderates have made gains in both the parliament and the Assembly of Experts—the body that will pick the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Right Way to Sanction China
Over the last five years, the United States has struggled to influence Chinese behavior. Washington’s responses to Beijing’s increasingly assertive activities—ranging from eco...
By Eric Lorber
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China is Cruising for a Bruising
China is attempting to create a situation wherein the United States, to uphold international law, will either have to accede to their territorial claims in the South China Sea...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Eurasia's Coming Anarchy
As China asserts itself in its nearby seas and Russia wages war in Syria and Ukraine, it is easy to assume that Eurasia’s two great land powers are showing signs of newfound s...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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North Korea Ignites a Predictable Chain Reaction
North Korea’s fourth nuclear test set in motion a predictable chain reaction. I refer not to the precision of nuclear physics, but to the same old policy responses from all re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Confronting China in the South China Sea
On January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Stop the Navy's carrier plan
When there is a crisis anywhere in the world, the president’s first question often is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” The modern supercarrier lies at the very center of Am...
By Jerry Hendrix
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China threatens sanctions against U.S. companies: Is this the future?
China's recent threat to impose sanctions on U.S. defense companies that sell arms to Taiwan should come as no surprise to American officials or corporate executives: Washingt...
By Peter Harrell