East Asia

For more than seventy years, East Asia has been the nexus of US presence and engagement in Asia. Today, the region is becoming a hotbed for the return of great power competition, with long-term US allies and partners like Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan next door to competitors and challengers including China, Russia, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. While East Asia continues to navigate a number of longstanding traditional security issues, it must also address the rise of online disinformation, competition to pioneer emerging technologies, and more.

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In the News

Jul 6, 2015

Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage

By Robert Manning

The Study Group on Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage released Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage: As a Protector of a Liberal, Open, Rule-based International Order in the “Era of Smart Power,” a report joined by Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning on the […]

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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Gen. Martin Dempsey, July 1, 2015

NATOSource

Jul 2, 2015

The New US National Military Strategy and NATO

By Department of Defense

Today’s global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of service.

China NATO

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 30, 2015

Cole: How to Write About World War III

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for The Atlantic about his new novel Ghost Fleet and what a great power conflict would look like in the twenty-first century:

China

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 30, 2015

Cole: This Is What World War III Will Look Like

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for TIME on how his new novel, Ghost Fleet, portrays a hypothetical World War where an array of science-fiction-like technologies would likely make their debut:

China

In the News

Jun 30, 2015

Manning: How George Kennan Would Contend with China’s Rise

By Robert A. Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning cowrites for The National Interest on how a strategy of containment could help manage China’s rise:

China

Event Recap

Jun 29, 2015

America’s Role in the World: How Others See Us

By The Atlantic Council

On June 14, 2015, the Atlantic Council’s Strategy Initiative hosted a public event introducing the results of the Pew Research Center’s 2015 “US Image and Balance of Power” survey. The event focused on global perceptions of the United States when positioned against countries like China, as well as on reactions to major US responses to world issues. Amb. […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 29, 2015

Ukraine, China, ISIS Top Long List of Challenges for EU, NATO

By Ariel Cohen

The unity and strategic viability of the transatlantic alliance and the US major non-NATO democratic allies, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Israel, the Philippines, and others, will be severely tested in the years to come. As always, freedom is not free, and its price is constant vigilance. The United States and its allies face significant […]

China NATO

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 29, 2015

‘Ghost Fleet’ Featured in RealClearDefense

By August Cole

RealClearDefense features Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War coauthored by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole:

China

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 29, 2015

Cole on ‘Ghost Fleet’s’ Depiction of Future Wars

By August Cole

US News and World Report interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on how he combines sci-fi and reality to portray future weapons and gadgets in his new novel, Ghost Fleet:

China

Event Recap

Jun 29, 2015

Missile Defense in the Asia Pacific

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The conversation of this panel focused on strategic level issues of US engagement in the Asia-Pacific, the Asian perspective of missile defense, efforts from Congress to address this issue, and the geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific theater that affects US missile defense.

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