China

Lipsky’s letter on why China’s progress is not the only motivation for the US to develop a central bank digital currency featured in Financial Times

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Manning quoted in Straits Times: Summit a good opening move as US steps up its game in Southeast Asia

By Atlantic Council

On May 15, Robert Manning was quoted in a Straits Times article about the ASEAN summit in Washington. “‘It seems to me the US-ASEAN summit checked the box politically for Biden, and its modest initiatives will be appreciated by ASEAN,’ Dr Robert Manning, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Centre for Strategy and Security, […]

Preble on Net Assessment: Threats from out of this world

By Atlantic Council

On May 12, Preble joined his co-hosts on the Net Assessment podcast to discuss space policy and to what extent cooperation on space governance is feasible at this point in time.  “People all over the world are ever-more dependent on assets in space for normal activity in their daily lives, but there are few rules […]

Preble quoted in CSIS: Chinese perceptions of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy

By Atlantic Council

On May 12, Christopher Preble was quoted in a CSIS review of Chinese views of US foreign policy. “Having not previously read many Chinese scholars’ views of the United States, I anticipated encountering some combination of misinterpretation and half-truth to push the best possible narrative from a Chinese perspective. However, I was more struck by […]

Manning in Foreign Policy: Locking China out of the global order could backfire

By Atlantic Council

On May 9, Robert Manning published an article in Foreign Policy questioning the assumption that excluding China from the global order benefits the long-term interests of the United States. “It may be that China is unshakably on a path to remake the world order on its terms and also, as a result of the Ukraine […]

Koster in Europe’s Edge: NATO must re-learn deterrence

By Timo S. Koster

Timo Koster writes that the Western reaction to the current crisis in Ukraine shows that NATO will have to revive the concept of deterrence, and quickly.