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Harnessing Multilateralism for Digital Development
Commentary
Uneven access to digital technology is magnifying societal inequities around the world....
By Kristen A. Cordell & Kristine Lee
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Sharper: North Korea
Commentary
For decades, North Korea's authoritarian dictatorship has threatened Northeast Asia's regional stability, challenged U.S. interests, and subjected its own citizens to an unpar...
By Joshua Fitt, Jason Bartlett, Chris Estep, Cole Stevens & Kristine Lee
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Retooling Democratic Good Governance
Commentary
Online and offline, illiberal governance technologies are proliferating across Southeast Asia....
By Coby Goldberg & Kristine Lee
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The United States Can’t Quit on the UN
Commentary
U.S. retrenchment empowers only China....
By Kristine Lee
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Sharper: America and the United Nations
Commentary
The UN is emerging as a key arena for ideological competition as authoritarian actors seek to bend the organization toward illiberalism....
By Kristine Lee, Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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Designing a U.S. Digital Development Strategy
Commentary
The digital choices that U.S. allies and partners make today will play a critical role in shaping the future of U.S. national security....
By Siddharth Mohandas, Kristine Lee, Joshua Fitt & Coby Goldberg
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China’s Expeditionary Entrepreneurs
Commentary
Beijing has led a concerted push for its investors as well as its most innovative technology startups to penetrate emerging markets and to operate at an increasingly global sc...
By Kristine Lee & Coby Goldberg
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The Pitch: A Competition of New Ideas
Video
On June 17, 2020, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted its premier event to elevate emerging and diverse voices in national security. Sixteen applicants made t...
By Richard Fontaine, Michèle Flournoy, Michael J. Zak, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Shai Korman, Carrie Cordero, Kristine Lee, David Zikusoka & Cole Stevens
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The United Nations: An Emerging Battleground for Influence
Congressional Testimony
Submitted Written Testimony Introduction1 Thank you very much for the opportunity to testify on China’s growing influence in the United Nations (UN). Since the beginning of th...
By Kristine Lee
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China’s Health Silk Road Is a Dead-End Street
Commentary
With little fanfare, the National People’s Congress—the annual convening of China’s top legislature and the country’s premier political event—rubber-stamped a $1.4 trillion in...
By Kristine Lee & Martijn Rasser
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North Korea Needs to Extort Democracies to Survive
Commentary
Pyongyang has made clear this week that its patience for business as usual with Washington and Seoul is wearing thin. Cutting off all official communication lines, including m...
By Kristine Lee
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ChinaTalk: Forging an Innovation Alliance Base
Podcast
America has allies with solid tech. But can the U.S. leverage these relationships to help preserve its technological edge over China? In this conversation, building off a rece...
By Daniel Kliman, Kristine Lee & Joshua Fitt
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A Nightmare for For China: What Would Beijing Do if Kim Jong-un Dies?
Commentary
A leadership transition in North Korea would present both tremendous risk and opportunity for all stakeholders in Northeast Asia, perhaps most acutely for China. Beijing has l...
By Kristine Lee
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It's Not Just the WHO: How China Is Moving on the Whole U.N.
Commentary
President Donald Trump has decided to halt U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, accusing it of kowtowing to China in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic by...
By Kristine Lee
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China, Europe, and COVID-19 with CNAS’s Ashley Feng and Kristine Lee
Podcast
Ashley Feng and Kristine Lee join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to explain China’s response to COVID-19 on the latest episode of Brussels Sprouts. Feng is a Research ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Kristine Lee & Ashley Feng
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Defense & Aerospace Report Daily Podcast: March 19, 2020
Kristine Lee, Associate Fellow for the CNAS Asia-Pacific Security Program, joins the Defense & Aerospace Report's daily podcast to discuss the economic implications of th...
By Kristine Lee
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How China set forth the global coronavirus crisis into motion
Commentary
As the shroud of crisis began to lift at the center of the coronavirus epidemic in China, Beijing launched a campaign to project an image of global leadership while the United...
By Kristine Lee & Ashley Feng
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America should challenge China on worldwide social media dominance
After one year during which lawmakers on Capitol Hill, federal regulators, and the Pentagon all intensified their scrutiny of TikTok, the social media platform owned by a Chin...
By Kristine Lee & Chris Estep
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Challenging China’s Bid for App Dominance
Commentary
Social media platforms are emerging as central to China’s efforts to shape the global information architecture....
By Kristine Lee & Karina Barbesino
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CNAS: Bold Ideas for National Security
Video
This year, CNAS experts brought bold ideas and bipartisan cooperation to the national security conversation. In 2020, the CNAS team will continue tackling the biggest security...
By Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Kayla M. Williams, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, Paul Scharre, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Carrie Cordero
