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New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2016

China Pays the Price for North Korea’s Belligerence

By Robert A. Manning

North Korea’s fourth nuclear test followed by a ballistic missile launch have ominous implications—a North Korea in possession of miniaturized warheads and a delivery system. These developments have rattled nerves and escalated tensions in Northeast Asia. The outrage over North Korea’s flagrant violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions has reverberated worldwide, yet China, North […]

China Korea

Defense Industrialist

Feb 4, 2016

Options unconsidered

By James Hasik

Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker, as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time, buddy-tanking F-18 Hornets has been a questionable use of other Hornets, but one  completely necessitated since 2009 […]

Defense Industry Japan

In the News

Jan 28, 2016

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss How the United States Should Respond to North Korea

By Jamie Metzl

Korea

In the News

Jan 25, 2016

Pham Quoted by ANI News on China’s Opening of a Military Base in Djibouti

By Peter J. Pham

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Africa China

In the News

Jan 22, 2016

Manning in Nikkei Asian Review: After Taiwan’s Political Earthquake: What Next?

By Robert A. Manning

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China Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 19, 2016

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Visit to the Middle East and China’s Middle East Challenge

By Jamie Metzl

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China Middle East

In the News

Jan 19, 2016

Hruby Joins Knowledge@Wharton To Discuss Chinese Investment In Africa

By Aubrey Hruby

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Africa China

In the News

Jan 18, 2016

Ullman in UPI: If It’s the Economy, Stupid, What Can Be Done?

By Harlan Ullman

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China

New Atlanticist

Jan 16, 2016

Taiwan Just Elected its First Female President. Here’s Why it Matters.

By Robert A. Manning

There was little ambiguity in the landslide victory of Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP): Tsai won 56.1 percent of the vote, nearly twice that of Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Eric Chu, and the DPP won sixty-eight of the 113 seats in parliament. The election victory of the DPP, whose charter includes the goal […]

China Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 15, 2016

Manning Quoted by CNBC on Taiwan’s Economic Dependency on China

By Robert A. Manning

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China

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