China and transatlantic security

Report Jun 15, 2023

US-China lessons from Ukraine: Fueling more dangerous Taiwan tensions

By John K. Culver, Sarah Kirchberger

The lessons that Washington and Beijing appear to be learning from Russia’s war against Ukraine could set the stage for a crisis over Taiwan in the next few years.
China Defense Industry
China and transatlantic security

Report Jan 20, 2023

China and the new globalization

By Franklin D. Kramer

The unitary globalized economy no longer exists. Driven in significant part by security considerations, a new and more diverse globalization is both required and being built. The transition is ongoing, and its final form is yet to be determined.
China Economy & Business
China and transatlantic security

Report Feb 2, 2023

Implementing NATO’s Strategic Concept on China

By Hans Binnendijk and Daniel S. Hamilton

Allies made it clear that they consider Russia their most immediate and direct threat. Yet they also made headlines by addressing challenges emanating from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
China Europe & Eurasia
Report Spotlight

Issue briefs and reports

Mar 22, 2021

The China plan: A transatlantic blueprint for strategic competition

By Hans Binnendijk, Sarah Kirchberger, James Danoy, Franklin D. Kramer, Connor McPartland, Christopher Skaluba, Clementine G. Starling, Didi Kirsten Tatlow

China presents the United States and its partners with the most serious set of challenges they have faced since the Cold War. To manage this challenge, transatlantic nations need a blueprint to build a common approach.

China Europe & Eurasia
Strategic guidance on China

Through in-depth research and timely analysis, our experts assess the challenges China poses to transatlantic security and offer guidance for US and European policymakers to inform a common transatlantic strategy towards China.

China and transatlantic security

In-Depth Research & Reports Nov 30, 2020

Priorities for a transatlantic China strategy

By Franklin D. Kramer

Franklin D. Kramer lays out six spheres of strategic cooperation between Europe and North America to guide joint foreign policy goals with respect to China.
China Economy & Business
China and transatlantic security

Issue Brief Aug 24, 2020

Capitalizing on transatlantic concerns about China

By Hans Binnendijk, Sarah Kirchberger, and Christopher Skaluba

Beijing is pursuing a China-centric strategy aggressively and in a fashion that is causing significant collateral damage to nations around the globe. Thus far, the transatlantic partners have no comparable strategy to counter these challenges. A new transatlantic approach is needed.
China Europe & Eurasia
China and transatlantic security

Report Dec 12, 2019

Managed competition: Meeting China’s challenge in a multi-vector world

By Franklin D. Kramer

Understanding and responding to the challenges China presents requires a broad perspective, recognizing the interaction of economic, diplomatic, and security issues.
China Europe & Eurasia
NATO and China

NATO’s focus on China is too narrow

Hans Binnendijk urges Europe and NATO to acknowledge China’s multi-dimensional threats, and suggests how Europe can be better positioned to avoid Chinese aggression.

Opportunity knocks for NATO and its partners in the Asia-Pacific

Although NATO and its Asia-Pacific partners have developed their relations over the past two decades, various constraints have limited the ambition and potential of these relationships. But there may be a change of the status quo on the horizon.

Build an Atlantic-Pacific Partnership

NATO is the only institution capable of organizing transatlantic and transpacific stakeholders to address China’s political, military, and information threats.

China is a present danger to Europe. NATO’s defense plans must respond.

In not emphasizing threats from China in its new defense plans, the Alliance comes up short. China isn’t some challenge of tomorrow or threat that has yet to fully form; even today, it is a clear and present threat to allied security in Europe and beyond.

Design a digital Marshall Plan

NATO allies, led by the United States, must cooperate in securing national 5G communications systems in Europe and beyond against malign Chinese influence.

NATO’s role in a transatlantic strategy on China

NATO can be an effective forum for Allies to share awareness of China’s capabilities and activities, develop a transatlantic security strategy regarding China, and pool capacities for engagement and deterrence.

NATO secretary general unveils his vision for the Alliance’s future

On June 8, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg laid out his plans for a new period of reflection on the Alliance’s mission and structure over the next ten years. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated certain security threats to member states, including “unabated” Russian military activity, the spread of disinformation and propaganda, and the disruptive ascendance of China, NATO “must stay strong militarily, be more united politically, and take a broader approach globally,” he stated.

Ian Brzezinski in the Economist on NATO’s future relationship with China

Ian Brzezinski in the Economist on policy options NATO could take to address China’s rise and malign activities.

It’s time for a NATO-China Council

Such a group would help to collectively engage Beijing, which prefers to deal with countries in isolation.
Workshops and Tabletop exercises

Assessing China's impact

Over the course of this project, we bring together American, European, and Asian officials, academic experts, and thought leader to effectively scope the problem of China’s rise for transatlantic relations across the security, economic, and technological realms. Through a series of workshops focusing specifically on issues of security, trade, technology, intellectual property, and other relevant topics, our workshops highlight key areas of convergence and divergence between the United States and Europe with respect to managing China’s rise.

Scenario planning for China's rise

Having mapped key areas of divergence and convergence, we are focusing on better articulating alternate futures on how China is likely to impact the future of transatlantic relations. Through scenario planning methodology and a series of workshops and tabletop exercises, we aim to define key drivers of Chinese actions in the security realm and identify possible futures for which the transatlantic community will have to prepare.
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Design a Digital Marshall Plan: NATO 20/2020 podcast

By The Hon. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)

NATO allies, led by the United States, must cooperate in securing national 5G communications systems in Europe and beyond against malign Chinese influence.
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Reimagine the Washington Treaty: NATO 20/2020 podcast

By Damon Wilson and Will O’Brien

Reexamining NATO’s founding charter can be an exercise in creating an Alliance fit for a new geopolitical era.
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