Resistance and resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s fight against gender apartheid

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
Resistance and resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s fight against gender apartheid

New Atlanticist Mar 25, 2025

Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

By Trisha Ray

A recently announced partnership to deploy the Elon Musk-led company’s satellite internet in India offers a window into New Delhi’s “hybrid” approach.
Economy & Business India
Resistance and resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s fight against gender apartheid

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

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Inside the Taliban's gender apartheid

Dec 10, 2025

Resistance and resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s fight against gender apartheid

By Farhat Ariana Azami

Zubeida Jaffar from South Africa and Tamana Zaryab Paryani from Afghanistan in conversation with Farhat Ariana Azami.

Afghanistan
Human Rights

New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2025

China’s overcapacity problem ‘doesn’t mean we can’t trade together,’ says US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer

By Katherine Golden

Greer spoke at an Atlantic Council Front Page event, where he unpacked a year in which US President Donald Trump implemented an aggressive trade strategy that resulted in clashes with China.

China
European Union

Dispatches

Dec 10, 2025

Why exporting advanced chips to China endangers US AI leadership

By Tess deBlanc-Knowles

Allowing Chinese companies to purchase high-end AI chips risks degrading the United States’s current edge in aggregate computing power.

Artificial Intelligence
China

Transcript

Dec 10, 2025

Inside the Trump trade strategy with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer

By Atlantic Council

Greer joined the Atlantic Council to discuss the US approach to trade and tariffs in the next year.

China
Mexico

Issue Brief

Dec 10, 2025

Middle powers’ game-changing rivalries in Africa

By Rama Yade

As traditional powers retreat, middle powers like Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Indonesia are stepping into Africa with ambitious investments and strategic outreach. Their growing presence is transforming alliances, competition, and development across the continent.

Africa
Middle East

MENASource

Dec 9, 2025

Is India losing clout in the Gulf?

By Jean-Loup Samaan

Until recently, Indian officials were careful not to pressure their Gulf partners on policies that ran counter to Delhi’s interests.

India
Middle East

New Atlanticist

Dec 5, 2025

The cost of an unjust peace in Ukraine? An emboldened China.

By Phillip M. Ramirez

A peace deal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine that favors Russia could embolden China to take military action of its own.

China
Conflict

New Atlanticist

Nov 25, 2025

How Venezuela uses crypto to sell oil—and what the US should do about it

By Maia Nikoladze

As US sanctions on Venezuela have intensified, the Maduro regime has grown increasingly interested in leveraging digital assets to facilitate oil transactions.

China
Digital Currencies

Dispatches

Nov 24, 2025

Dispatch from Taipei: Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back

By Markus Garlauskas

A recent visit to Taiwan reveals how the government, the armed forces, and the citizens there are strengthening both their capability and resolve to defend themselves from Chinese aggression.

China
Indo-Pacific

New Atlanticist

Nov 24, 2025

Dispatch from Taipei: Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back

By Markus Garlauskas

A recent visit to Taiwan reveals how the government, the armed forces, and the citizens there are strengthening both their capability and resolve to defend themselves from Chinese aggression.

China
Indo-Pacific
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Millennium Leadership Program

East Asia Economy & Business

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Jongsun Kim

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Nathan Freier

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Conflict Defense Policy

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Patrick Slovik

Director, Financial System Surveillance and Policy, Central Bank of the UAE

Millennium Leadership Program

Economy & Business Energy & Environment

Fellow

Jonathan Corrado

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Indo-Pacific Korea

Fellow

Ryan J. Lamke

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Global Energy Center

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