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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First Annual Members’ Conference – The Next Phase of the Strategic Partnership with China

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

First Annual Members’ Conference – The Next Phase of the Strategic Partnership with China

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

First Annual Members’ Conference – The Next Phase of the Strategic Partnership with China

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

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Sep 29, 2009

First Annual Members’ Conference – The Next Phase of the Strategic Partnership with China

By James Joyner

Summary of the breakout conversation “China – The Next Phase of the Strategic Partnership” at the 2009 Annual Members’ Conference. PARTICIPANTS: Hon. J. Stapleton Roy, Former U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Mr. Ruan Zongze, Minister Counselor, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States Mr. David Shear, Deputy Assistant […]

China

New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2009

Chinese Autocracy vs. American Democracy

By James Joyner

Thomas Friedman, heretofore perhaps the world’s leading evangelist for free market globalism, devotes his latest column to explaining why Communist China’s system is preferable to ours.

China United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 21, 2009

The WTO and Cultural Goods: The Case of Hollywood

By Griffin Huschke

Last week, the World Trade Organization struck down China’s use of a governmental agency to supply western movies to consumers, stating that the practice provided Chinese movies with an unfair trade advantage.

China

New Atlanticist

Aug 14, 2009

In China, You Might Not Be Able to Read This

By Andrew Kessinger

Chinese Internet users won a small but encouraging victory on Thursday when Information Technology Minister, Li Yizhong, eased the controversial requirement to install website-filtering software on all new personal computers. The government-controlled software will still be mandatory in Internet cafes, schools and other public places however.

China Cybersecurity

New Atlanticist

Aug 7, 2009

U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue

By Patrick deGategno and Damien Tomkins

If you think the first U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue last week lacked substance, you are wrong.  It was a promising step in the growing bilateral relationship.

China United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2009

Bill Clinton’s North Korea Gambit

By James Joyner

While the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from a North Korean prison has universally been hailed as good news, the trip by former President Bill Clinton that made it possible has been controversial.

Korea

New Atlanticist

Aug 4, 2009

The Next Stage in U.S.-China Relations

By Banning Garrett

The China-U.S. relationship for the 21st Century is being forged in a new, strategically interdependent world—a globalized world no longer characterized by the zero-sum strategic competition among the major powers that dominated the Cold War and preceding eras. The United States and China are not strategic competitors but rather face common strategic challenges that can […]

China

New Atlanticist

Jul 14, 2009

U.S.-China Relations: The Changing Climate of Diplomacy

By Banning Garrett

From the start of the global economic crisis, it has become clear that a new world order has emerged. While the world is increasingly interconnected, it is specifically the U.S.-China relationship that will determine how and if our leaders can meet the major global challenges of the 21st century.

China

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2009

China-India Relations: An Unresolved Border and 60,000 Troops Deployed

By Damien Tomkins

When two countries have gone to war over an unresolved border and one of these announces the deployment of 50,000-60,000 troops and nuclear-capable combat planes along this border, the reader would likely expect the second country to sit up and take notice.  This is exactly what happened over the last month between India and China.

China India

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

Jones: North Korea Nukes ‘Not an Imminent Threat’

By James Joyner

National Security Advisor Jim Jones declared in a speech to the Atlantic Council that the recent testing of a nuclear device and firing of Taepodong missiles by North Korea “are not an imminent threat” to the United States or the regions because “they have a long way to go” in perfecting the technology to weaponize […]

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Alvin Camba

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Josh M. Cartin

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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