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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Prepared Remarks by C. H. Tung on China-US Cooperation

New Atlanticist
Mar 31, 2025

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

By
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.

China
Digital Currencies

Prepared Remarks by C. H. Tung on China-US Cooperation

New Atlanticist
Mar 25, 2025

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

By
Kitsch Liao

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

China
East Asia

Prepared Remarks by C. H. Tung on China-US Cooperation

Report
Mar 24, 2025

How Beijing uses inducements as a tool of economic statecraft

By
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.

China
Economy & Business

Programs

The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative equips the transatlantic community to “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific and to position the Atlantic Council to serve as the essential link between high-level transatlantic and Asian leaders and thinkers

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Sep 17, 2013

Prepared Remarks by C. H. Tung on China-US Cooperation

Prepared remarks by C. H. Tung, chairman, China-US Exchange Foundation; former chief executive and president, Executive Council of Hong Kong, delivered at a launch event for the report China-US Cooperation: Key to the Future on September 17, 2013.

China United States and Canada

Transcript

Sep 17, 2013

Transcript: Report Launch: China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future

On September 17 the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative hosted a distinguished panel discussion for the launch of the China-US Cooperation: Key to Global Future report, the culmination of a yearlong US-China Joint Assessment Project. For the project, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, housed in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, partnered with the China Institute of International […]

China

Transcript

Sep 17, 2013

Prepared Remarks by Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai on China-US Cooperation

Prepared remarks by Ambassador Cui Tiankai of the People’s Republic of China delivered at a launch event for the report China-US Cooperation: Key to the Future on September 17, 2013.

China United States and Canada

Press Release

Sep 17, 2013

Unprecedented Report Calls for US-China Cooperation to Address Emerging Global Challenges

WASHINGTON – A new and unprecedented report prepared by a team of Chinese and American strategic thinkers concludes that the two countries are not adequately addressing critical global challenges of the twenty-first century. China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future calls for the creation of a Vision Group of senior American and Chinese nongovernment and […]

China

Report

Sep 17, 2013

China-US cooperation: key to the global future

By China-US Joint Working Group

China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future calls for the creation of a Vision Group of senior American and Chinese nongovernment and former government experts to build on the idea of a new great power relationship proposed by China’s President Xi Jinping.

China Chinese

Event Recap

Sep 16, 2013

Workshop on Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia

On September 16, 2013 the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted an off-the-record workshop on extended deterrence in Northeast Asia with the leading experts in the field, hosted by Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security of the Atlantic Council, and Richard Armitage, president of […]

East Asia
Ground based missile defense test, Jan. 26, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2013

US Names Five Possible East Coast Missile Defense Sites

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

The Pentagon announced five possible missile defense sites in the eastern United States on Thursday, but said it was far from any decision to proceed

Korea Missile Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 13, 2013

China in the Regional Order: It’s not about Parity

By Robert A. Manning and James Przystup

To answer Hugh White’s initial question, ‘what is America’s ultimate aim in Asia today?’, there is no mystery about American aims in Asia: it is simply a rules-based order with unimpeded access to the global commons.

China Indo-Pacific

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2013

China: Mao or Markets?

By Robert A. Manning

Why is Chinese president Xi Jinping embracing his inner Mao at a moment when China’s new leaders are on the verge of launching a new wave of reforms to retool China’s economy based on strengthening market forces? Hint: it may have something to do with the regime’s efforts to bring down the former Chongqing Communist […]

China
President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt

NATOSource

Sep 4, 2013

US and Sweden Agree on Key Security Issues

By Barack Obama and Fredrik Reinfeldt, White House

Excerpts from Joint Statement by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden

European Union International Organizations
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Ahmed Aboudouh

Former Nonresident Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative

Arabic China

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Michael Allen

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

China Cybersecurity

Fellow

Peter Arvo

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

China Human Rights

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Rayhan Asat

Former Senior Legal & Policy Advisor, China Lead

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Central Asia China

Fellow

Kelsang (Kaydor) Aukatsang

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Global China Hub

China Civil Society

Fellow

Jieun Baek

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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