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In the News

Jan 7, 2015

Manning: No Simple Solutions for China and Japan’s East China Sea Dilemma

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the National Interest on Michael O’Hanlon’s proposed solution for reducing tensions in the East China Sea between Japan and China:

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Event Recap

Dec 16, 2014

Democratic Developments in Asia: Implications of the Hong Kong Demonstrations for Cross-Straits Relations

By Atlantic Council

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed Christopher K. Johnson, senior adviser and Freeman chair in China studies of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch, and Alan D. Romberg, distinguished fellow and director, East Asia program of the Stimson […]

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Transcript

Dec 16, 2014

Transcript: Democratic Developments in Asia

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council Democratic Developments in Asia Welcome and Moderator:Barry Pavel,Director,Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Speakers:Sophie Richardson,China Director,Human Rights Watch Alan Romberg,East Asia Program Director,Stimson Center Location: The Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 Transcript byFederal News ServiceWashington, D.C.

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Article

Dec 15, 2014

New strategy unlikely to lift Pyongyang from economic doldrums

By Robert A. Manning

What does the future hold for North Korea? In 2013 North Korean Kim Jong-un proclaimed a national strategy he called byungjin (“parallel strategy”) – simultaneously developing nuclear weapons and the economy. He has raised expectations among North Korea’s 24 million citizens that he will lead the nation to prosperity.

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New Atlanticist

Dec 11, 2014

Amid Hong Kong Protests, China Escalates Mainland Crackdown, Too

By Ashish Kumar Sen

‘Off-the-Charts Harsh Sentences’ Against Anti-Corruption Protesters in Chinese Cities The government of President Xi Jinping is conducting “one of the harshest” Chinese campaigns against civil society and peaceful dissent in the past decade, according to a prominent human rights activist. The campaign has come amid the pro-democracy protests that have roiled Hong Kong since September. […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 8, 2014

Forget the South China Sea: Taiwan Could Be Asia’s Next Big Security Nightmare

By Robert A. Manning

Forget the South China Sea. The results of Taiwan’s local elections last week, still reverberating in Beijing, are more likely than not to propel Taiwan’s ascension to the status of No.1 security problem in Asia over the coming two to three years.

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In the News

Nov 21, 2014

Metzl on Interest-Rate Cuts in China

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins Bloomberg’s Bottom Line to discuss China’s surprise interest-rate cuts:

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Chinese Jiangkai II (Type 054A) Class Frigate

NATOSource

Nov 21, 2014

Russia and China Plan Joint Naval Exercise in the Mediterranean

By TASS

Defense ministries of Russia and China seek to form a regional collective security system in the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday

China Europe & Eurasia
1986 DIA artwork of Soviet anti-satellite weapon

NATOSource

Nov 19, 2014

Object 2014-28E – Space Junk or Russian Satellite Killer?

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites.

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Defense Industrialist

Nov 18, 2014

Third Offset Strategy, Second Adversary

By James Hasik, Alex Ward

  What worked on the Soviets may not work on the Chinese.   Chuck Hagel’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum this past weekend may have been one of the most important by an American defense secretary in recent years. His new ‘Defense Innovation Initiative’ seems neither a DARPA program writ large nor a […]

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