GeoStrategy Initiative Analysis and Events

Kroenig and Ashford debate China’s nuclear build-up

By Atlantic Council

On July 9, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig and New American Engagement Initiative senior fellow Emma Ashford discussing the latest news in international affairs. In this column, they debated the future of Chinese nuclear posture and utilization, the Sino-Russian relationship, US-China economic decoupling, and prospects for US action in Haiti […]

Kroenig speaks at the Nuclear Triad Symposium on modernization

By Atlantic Council

Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig presents at the twenty-first Nuclear Triad Symposium.

Kroenig in the WSJ on Chinese nuclear expansion

By Atlantic Council

On July 7th, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “China’s Nuclear Silos and the Arms-Control Fantasy,” discussing new satellite imagery which revealed that China is building more than one hundred new ICBM silos. Kroenig argues that this poses an unprecedented threat to […]

Burrows in Lawfare: How the United States can compete with Chinese influence in Southeast Asia

By Atlantic Council

Kroenig and Ashford review the Biden-Putin Summit

By Atlantic Council

On June 25, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig and New American Engagement Initiative senior fellow Emma Ashford discussing the latest news in international affairs. In this column, they discussed the successes of the Biden-Putin Summit, the Iranian presidential elections and the potential for a nuclear deal, and the future of […]

Manning and Eftimiades in SpyTalk on false rumors of a high-level Chinese defector

By Atlantic Council

Senior Fellow Robert Manning and Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Nicholas Eftimiades interviewed by SpyTalk in an article titled “Feds: we don’t have Chinese defector Dong Jingwei.”

Kroenig testifies before the Senate on US Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Strategy

By Atlantic Council

On June 16, Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig testified before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In his testimony, Kroenig argued in defense of the United States maintaining its robust nuclear arsenal.