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Taiwan’s Great Recalibration
The winds of change that swept Taiwan on Saturday, Jan. 16, propelling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Dr. Tsai Ing-wen to a landslide victory — with nearly doubl...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Phoebe Benich
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Taiwan’s Election Has Echoes of 1992
This Saturday, Taiwan will elect a successor government to President Ma Ying-jeou and his ruling KMT party. Over the last eight years, the Ma administration has pursued a warm...
By Harry Krejsa & Phoebe Benich
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If China's Goliath Threatens Asia, Then Arm David
There is a Goliath menacing the western Pacific. China’s construction of three huge artificial islands with obvious military capacity in the South China Sea has already destab...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Yomiuri-Gallup Survey / Strong support for alliance expressed on both sides
In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no closer ally than Japan. The American public at large fully supports Japan’s measured steps to make a more proactive contri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Remarks by Defense Deputy Secretary Robert Work at the CNAS Inaugural National Security Forum
WORK: Thank you for that kind introduction and in fact, all of the people at CNAS, our CNAS family, and it’s really great to be back here this morning. It reminds me of a sto...
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Gen. Dunford's Remarks and Q&A at the CNAS Inaugural National Security Forum
MICHELE FLOURNOY: Thanks, David, for bringing that footage to us. You know, this has been a wonderful day and a wonderful conference, and I want to thank all of you for comi...
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Does China Needs Its Own 'Womenomics'?
Any economist will tell you that failing to integrate half of a country’s population into the workforce is economic nonsense — a needless expense that permanently limits growt...
By Harry Krejsa
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Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World
On December 7, 2015, CNAS’s Asia-Pacific Security Program hosted a roundtable discussion on Chinese military modernization and Peter Navarro’s recent book and miniseries on th...
By Harry Krejsa
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How China Benefits From Global Sanctions
Over the past several years, major multilateral sanctions have been aimed at regimes that threaten global security, from Russia to North Korea to Iran. China has been neither ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Washington's Message in the South China Sea
On October 27, the United States conducted a long-awaited freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. During the operation, the USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burk...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Time to Act on Ukraine
The Ukraine crisis, though temporarily out of the headlines, is at a critical stage. There is no better opportunity than now through the next several months to forge a deal wi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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Introducing Agenda SecDef
One year from now, somewhere in a small suite of offices at the Pentagon, a team of civil servants, military officers, and a smattering of outside civilians will be hard at wo...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Will the Ma-Xi Meeting Backfire for Taiwan's KMT?
The data is in: less than a week after the meeting between Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping, a plurality of Taiwanese believe Ma does not refl...
By Phoebe Benich
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How to Get Kim Jong-un Out of the U.S.-ROK Alliance's 'Head'
North Korea remains the most explosive flashpoint in Asia because of the potential for escalation and major war. As the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, puts ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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What Did The Navy Do In the South China Sea?
After the U.S.S. Lassen’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Spratly Islands last week, we wrote that the Lassen and the accompanying P-8 Poseidon aircraft appeare...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Harry Krejsa on the Rise of China's GDP
By Harry Krejsa
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Why Military Personnel Reform Matters
The United States is notoriously bad at predicting future conflicts and changes in the international order. From the bestselling The Coming War With Japan in the early 1990s t...
By Amy Schafer
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South China Sea Artificial Islands -- U.S. Navy & Law of the Sea
The recent passage of an American warship within 12 nautical miles of one of China’s artificial (and illegal) “islands” in the South China Sea represents the sustainment of ov...
By Jerry Hendrix
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After the Freedom of Navigation Exercise: What Did the U.S. Signal?
On Friday, we published a “what to watch for” guide to the then-imminent U.S. freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. Yesterday, the USS Lassen, an Arl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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How American Can Cross the Digital Security Divide
In the past year, the United States has learned about unprecedented digital data breaches ranging from the confidential files of Sony Pictures, to the security clearance recor...
By Patrick M. Cronin