East Asia

Akhtar as a panelist at the University of Lahore Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research: The Future of Sino-Indo-Pak Relations post-Pandemic

By Atlantic Council

Roberts on the state of Chinese migrant workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic

By Atlantic Council

On May 16, 2020, Dexter Tiff Roberts, nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Security Initiative and a distinguished China journalist, published an article on Foreign Policy. His article talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the livelihood of China’s 300 million migrant workers and the families they support in the countryside. He also elaborates […]

Kroenig in the Financial Times: Machiavelli offered a compelling argument for the superiority of republics

By Atlantic Council

On Friday, May 15, the Financial Times published a Letter to the Editor by Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig, in which he reminds readers that Machiavelli offered a convincing defense of republics as a superior system of government. With the US-China rivalry intensifying, many are wondering whether autocracy or democracy is a better form […]

Robert Manning in Foreign Policy on China’s control of the South China Sea

By Atlantic Council

Livingston quoted in Slate on the impact on ‘middle tier’ players of an absent Chinese-US leadership

Kroenig and Ashford in Foreign Policy: Should the United States facilitate regime change?

By Atlantic Council

On May 15, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig and the Cato Institute’s Emma Ashford discussing the latest news in international affairs. In this column, they debate the risks, downsides, and rewards of facilitating regime change. The column opens with a discussion of US opposition to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, […]

Kroenig in Foreign Policy: The United States Should Not Align with Russia to Counter China

By Atlantic Council

On May 13, Foreign Policy published an op-ed by Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig in which he argues the United States should not align with Russia to counter China. Instead, the United States should leverage its democratic advantages and work with allies to counter both Russia and China. While Russia and China may be […]

Hadley in the Washington Post: The next stimulus package can be used to help the US compete with China

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council Executive Vice Chair and former national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley argues in the Washington Post that the next stimulus package to mitigate the domestic economic impact of COVID-19 can also be used to counter China. Hadley and co-author Anja Manuel list several provisions that would help the United States compete effectively with […]