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China Won’t Fix North Korea—Focus on These Four Areas Instead
Kim Jong Un’s North Korea continues to make one provocative move after another: It keeps firing off missiles and detonating nuclear devices and recently used chemical weapons ...
By Jacob Stokes & Alexander Sullivan
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The Sino-Russo Rundown
Russia and China seem to be growing closer by the day. In May 2015, Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Russia. As China’s official media opined at the time, “China and Russia a...
By Jacob Stokes & Alexander Sullivan
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Why China likes the Iran deal
As members of Congress debate whether to back the deal over Iran's nuclear program, one source of support seems guaranteed -- China. It's one of the biggest winners in the agr...
By Alexander Sullivan & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Video: Sullivan Discusses Joko Widodo’s Visit To Japan And The New Japan-Indonesia Security Cooperation Agreement
By Alexander Sullivan
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Video: Sullivan Discusses Japan's Strategic Outreach To Southeast Asia And Indonesia's Role In The South China Sea.
By Alexander Sullivan
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Note to Ash Carter: Make the Rebalance a Reality
The new secretary of defense needs to make the United States’ “rebalance to the Asia-Pacific” an indisputable fact. Even in the face of global challenges and constrained resou...
By Alexander Sullivan, Patrick M. Cronin & Van Jackson
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Maritime Strategy Project Workshop #2, pt. 2
Any strategy that seeks to maintain peace and stability of the East China Sea – or any of Asia’s important waterways – will unfold in a phased manner, with critical attention ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Vietnam agreed to control the South China Sea conflict, the crisis is expected to lift?
By Alexander Sullivan
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Maritime Strategy Project Workshop #2 pt 1: Imposing Costs on Coercion in the East China Sea, with the Japan Institute of International Affairs
The news this week that Japan and the United States have finished an interim draft of their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines – under review for the first time in 17 ye...
By Alexander Sullivan
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How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China Sea
As a previous blog post alluded to, one of the goals of the first workshop in our Maritime Strategy Project, and indeed of the entire initiative, is to understand the drivers ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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CNAS Kicks Off Maritime Strategy Project: Imposing Costs on Bad Behavior in Maritime Asia
Asia’s relative peace and prosperity is increasingly marked by maritime tensions, especially in the East and South China Seas. Despite the obvious incentives for cooperation,...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Setting an Agenda for U.S.-China Strategic Reassurance
The summit meeting between Xi Jinping and Barack Obama underway in Southern California offers an opportunity to recast the often fraught Sino-US relationship as one that is on...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin
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The Most Dangerous Border in the World
The night before Beijing released its biennial defense white paper in mid-April, avowing that it would not "engage in military expansion," roughly 30 Chinese troops marched 12...
By Alexander Sullivan & Ely Ratner
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America and the South China Sea Challenge
The rough waters that roiled the South China Sea in 2012 are not giving way to smooth sailing in 2013. Despite a springtime push for diplomatic progress, present conditions po...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin