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Dispatch from Hong Kong: How the ‘geoeconomic city’ is weathering global headwinds

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Josh Lipsky, Ananya Kumar

From Chinese and US economic growth to stablecoin regulations, a recent visit to Hong Kong offered important insights for two Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center experts.

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Kroenig in War on the Rocks: A New Strategy for Deterrence and Rollback with North Korea

New Atlanticist
Mar 25, 2025

Reading between the lines of Taiwan’s new Quadrennial Defense Review

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Kitsch Liao

The recently released Quadrennial Defense Review offers a window into the Taiwanese military’s issues with prioritization, operational readiness, and manpower retention.

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East Asia

Kroenig in War on the Rocks: A New Strategy for Deterrence and Rollback with North Korea

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Mar 24, 2025

How Beijing uses inducements as a tool of economic statecraft

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William Piekos

As strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, Washington and Beijing seek every possible advantage to gain an edge. In this environment, both countries are increasingly turning to economic statecraft—the use of economic coercion or inducement to pursue strategic goals—to advance their interests.

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In the News

Oct 19, 2017

Kroenig in War on the Rocks: A New Strategy for Deterrence and Rollback with North Korea

By Matthew Kroenig

Read the full article here.

Korea

In the News

Oct 9, 2017

Farkas Quoted in CNBC on North Korean Missile Test

By Evelyn Farkas

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Korea

In the News

Oct 8, 2017

Farkas Joins CNBC to Discuss North Korea Missile Capability

By Evelyn Farkas

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Trade in Action

Oct 6, 2017

TRADE IN ACTION October 6, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

THIS WEEK IN TRADESouth Korea indicated on Wednesday it was open to talks on revising a 2012 trade pact with the United States after initial differences that followed President Donald Trump’s threat to terminate the accord unless it was renegotiated. 

Economy & Business Korea

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2017

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: An Opportunity for the United States

By Caleb Darger

The United States must seize the opportunity presented by a Chinese initiative that envisions the creation of land and sea routes that will span three continents and link more than sixty countries, according to experts who participated in a panel discussion at the Atlantic Council on October 4. Making the case for engagement with China’s […]

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Oct 4, 2017

Silk Road 2.0: US Strategy Toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative

By Ellen Riina

Written by Dr. Gal Luft, Silk Road 2.0: US Strategy toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative explores how the United States should engage with China’s tremendous infrastructure-building project, and recommends the United States pursue a strategy of constructive participation. This strategy is built on five pillars: acknowledge, engage, adjust; articulate red lines; carve a role for the […]

China Russia

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Oct 4, 2017

US strategy toward China’s belt and road initiative

By Gal Luft

The balance in Eurasia is shifting. China’s President Xi Jinping has ambitious visions for Asia, while the rest of the world reshuffles to find its place in the rapidly changing global order. The United States would be better off engaging with the BRI and trying to influence its design and mechanics from within, rather than staying on the sidelines and witnessing its allies gravitating toward China.

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In the News

Sep 29, 2017

Manning in Voice of America on North Korea Nuclear Escalation

By Robert Manning

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Korea

In the News

Sep 24, 2017

Manning Joins e-FM to Discuss North Korea

By Robert Manning

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Korea

New Atlanticist

Sep 21, 2017

Strengthen US Ballistic Missile Defense to Deter North Korea

By Nilsu Goren

After a series of missile tests over the past couple of months, it is clear that, left to its own devices, North Korea will continue to test its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) over the same trajectory and at greater distances into the Pacific. Frequent tests have proven that Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and an enhanced […]

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Joanna Siekiera

Nonresident Fellow

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