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• Commentary
  • January 12, 2021
  Harnessing Multilateralism for Digital Development

  Uneven access to digital technology is magnifying societal inequities around the world....

  By Kristen A. Cordell & Kristine Lee

• Commentary
  • December 9, 2020
  Sharper: North Korea

  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

• Commentary
  • December 1, 2020
  Retooling Democratic Good Governance

  Online and offline, illiberal governance technologies are proliferating across Southeast Asia....

  By ​Coby Goldberg & Kristine Lee

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • September 24, 2020
  The United States Can’t Quit on the UN

  U.S. retrenchment empowers only China....

  By Kristine Lee

• Commentary
  • September 24, 2020
  Sharper: America and the United Nations

  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

• Commentary
  • September 10, 2020
  Designing a U.S. Digital Development Strategy

  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

• Commentary
  • The Wire China
  • August 2, 2020
  China’s Expeditionary Entrepreneurs

  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

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • June 16, 2020
  China’s Health Silk Road Is a Dead-End Street

  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

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • June 12, 2020
  North Korea Needs to Extort Democracies to Survive

  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

• Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • April 27, 2020
  A Nightmare for For China: What Would Beijing Do if Kim Jong-un Dies?

  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

• Commentary
  • POLITICO Magazine
  • April 15, 2020
  It's Not Just the WHO: How China Is Moving on the Whole U.N.

  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

• Commentary
  • The Hill
  • March 12, 2020
  How China set forth the global coronavirus crisis into motion

  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

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • January 28, 2020
  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

• Commentary
  • January 22, 2020
  Challenging China’s Bid for App Dominance

  Social media platforms are emerging as central to China’s efforts to shape the global information architecture....

  By Kristine Lee & Karina Barbesino

• Commentary
  • The Hill
  • December 13, 2019
  Why policymakers and universities need to collaborate for democracy

  Policymakers have singled out the higher education system as a critical area of vulnerability in American society. Christopher Wray memorably stated before the Senate Judiciar...

  By Kristine Lee & Joshua Fitt

• Commentary
  • October 2, 2019
  Situation Report: U.S.-North Korea Negotiations to Resume This Weekend

  After months of stalled talks, U.S. and North Korean representatives will meet this weekend to resume negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Just this week, ...

  By Duyeon Kim, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kristine Lee, Van Jackson & ​Neil Bhatiya

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • September 16, 2019
  Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values

  In a new essay for Foreign Affairs, Kristine Lee discusses global concerns behind Beijing's changing approach to international organizations....

  By Kristine Lee

• Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • August 25, 2019
  The Balkans Will Pay a Heavy Price for China's Global Ambitions

  Since President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan in 2013, framing it as an overland strategy to connect Asia to Europe, China’s inroads in the W...

  By Karina Barbesino & Kristine Lee

• Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • July 16, 2019
  Can South Korea and America Find a Common Position on China?

  The image two weeks ago of Presidents Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in greeting Kim Jong Un in the Korean Demilitarized Zone captivated the world. The impromptu, trilateral meetin...

  By Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee & Hannah Suh

• Commentary
  • June 24, 2019
  The Key to Success with North Korea: A ROK-Solid Alliance

  When President Trump meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in after the G-20 Summit next week, he will have a golden opportunity to jump-start diplomatic engagement with North...

  By Kristine Lee & ​Neil Bhatiya