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India-China Border Tensions and U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Washington, March 30, 2023—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, "India-China Border Tensions and U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific," fro...
By Lisa Curtis & Derek Grossman
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North Korea Test-Fires 2 More Missiles as US Sends Carrier
North Korea already is coming off a record year in weapons testing, launching more than 70 missiles in 2022. It had set into law an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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North Korea Fires Two Missiles, Piling More Pressure on US
The US and South Korea last week began their largest amphibious exercise in about five years in a training drill called Ssangyong. The US Navy’s Nimitz aircraft carrier group ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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U.S. Alarmed over Russia's Support of China Nuclear Buildup
The Biden administration has found that China is dramatically expanding its nuclear capabilities. In an annual report released last November, the Pentagon estimated that China...
By Jacob Stokes
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The Anglophone Military Alliance in Asia is Seriously Ambitious
American technology will suffuse this new "SSN-AUKUS". America will provide its vertical-launching system, a set of tubes that can hold a greater number of missiles, and more ...
By Tom Shugart
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North Korea launches 2 cruise missiles from submarine ahead of US-South Korea military drills
North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea
China’s outposts present additional potential threats for the U.S. military to track and counter. Three of the outposts in the Spratly group of islands are full-fledged milita...
By Tom Shugart
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Biden’s AUKUS Point Man to Exit
"What makes AUKUS so challenging is you have to coordinate with the defense industrial base, Pentagon, the armed services, the Hill, the State Department, and these countries ...
By Jacob Stokes
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US-China Downward Spiral Raises Fresh Fears of Eventual Conflict
The dueling narratives brought into sharp focus how the US and China increasingly have one thing in common: a growing distrust of the other side. Even worse, the escalating rh...
By Jacob Stokes
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After Brief Window, US-China Relationship Back On Rocky Path
The meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit came three months after China staged major military exercises in fury after Nancy Pelosi, then US House speaker, defiantly...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Feels Squeeze from Both Sides of Ukraine
"Beijing worries about a total defeat of Moscow, which would leave China without its most powerful and committed partner in global affairs," said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow...
By Jacob Stokes
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Satellite photos show expansion of Chinese-funded naval base in Cambodia
A number of new structures have been built at the center of the base, one of which resembles a cement plant to provide for the whole project, according to Tom Shugart, Adjunct...
By Tom Shugart
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Putin-Xi Meeting Threatens Chinese Curveball in Russia’s War
Xi may also recognize that his closest partner on the world stage needs some propping up, Jacob Stokes, a former national security aide to Biden and former acting special advi...
By Jacob Stokes
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US draft resolution on Arunachal in hands of senator who once warned of sanctions against India
Experts, however, point out that the recent resolution on Arunachal Pradesh introduced in the Senate supports India’s “diversification” of military purchases — a point that is...
By Lisa Curtis
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The Post-cold War Era Is Gone. A New Arms Race Has Arrived
Many lessons from the war in Ukraine have less to do with hardware than the softer issues of logistics, training and strategy that have no borders. “The Russians showed how de...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Before They Floated Abroad, China’s Spy Balloons Were Already Used at Home
In 2018, the Academy of Opto-Electronics organized the China Aerostat Conference in Beijing with the theme of “military-civilian integration”; in 2017, the academy attended a ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Seoul's integration into Quad will benefit all parties
Speaking to The Korea Times, Joshua Fitt, an associate fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), said the Quad is not likel...
By Joshua Fitt
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What the U.S. Is Doing to Curtail Chinese Land Ownership
China has maintained the first aircraft was a wayward civilian weather balloon and has not been named by U.S. officials as the source of the others. Tom Shugart, a senior fell...
By Tom Shugart
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U.S. Shoots Down Fourth Object as China Levels New Accusation
“We have probably reached peak media and political frenzy related to the PRC spy balloon,” said Jacob Stokes, a former Obama administration foreign policy adviser who is now a...
By Jacob Stokes
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China ‘Spy Balloon’ Wakes Up World to New Era of War at Edge of Space
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific security programme at the Centre for a New American Security in Washington, also suggested that surveillance may turn out to b...
By Jacob Stokes