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The Tiger Project: War and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Explore the Atlantic Council’s work on current and enduring defense and deterrence issues in the Indo-Pacific, featuring expert commentary, multimedia content, and in-depth analysis.

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The Global China Hub tracks Beijing’s actions and their global impacts, assessing China’s rise from multiple angles and identifying emerging China policy challenges. The Hub leverages its network of China experts around the world to generate actionable recommendations for policymakers in Washington and beyond.

The Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) informs and shapes the strategies, plans, and policies of the United States and its allies and partners to address the most important rising security challenges in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s growing threat to the international order and North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear weapons advancements. IPSI produces innovative analysis, conducts tabletop exercises, hosts public and private convenings, and engages with US, allied, and partner governments, militaries, media, other key private and public-sector stakeholders, and publics.

Events

Content

In the News

Dec 8, 2023

Kerg published in USNI Proceedings on Marine Corps posturing

IPSI nonresident fellow Brian Kerg published an article in the December 2023 issue of the US Naval Institute Proceedings magazine, titled “Put III MEF in a Fighting Stance.” Kerg wrote that the Marine Corps “can realign the posture of forces to that of a true, combat-credible, and ready-to-fight force” in order to better prepare for […]

Conflict
East Asia

In the News

Dec 8, 2023

Kerg published in CIMSEC

On December 7, IPSI nonresident fellow Brian Kerg published a fiction piece through the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), titled “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” on a US confrontation with the PRC maritime militia.

China
Indo-Pacific

In the News

Dec 8, 2023

Report by Garlauskas and Gilbert quoted in UK Parliament’s “In Focus”

On December 7, a recent report by Markus Garlauskas and Lauren Gilbert was quoted in an article published through the United Kingdom Parliament’s House of Lords Library. The article examines the developing North Korean threat to global security, citing Garlauskas’ and Gilbert’s argument that “the path toward strategic deterrence failure is far more likely to […]

China
Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Dec 8, 2023

A pivotal contest for strategic islands in the Pacific is upon us—and it’s not about Taiwan or the South China Sea

By Markus Garlauskas, Parker Novak

Time is running out for Congress to take concerted bipartisan action on agreements with Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.

China
Defense Policy

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Aboudouh in Chatham House: China’s approach to the war in Gaza is not anti-Israel. It’s designed to contain the US

By Atlantic Council

China
Conflict

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Fulton quoted in The New York Times on China’s vision for a new world order

By Atlantic Council

China
Middle East

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Asat quoted in The China Project on Uyghurs in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
China

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Asat quoted in Radio Free Asia on SLP’s Capitol Hill Uyghur event

By Atlantic Council

Arabic
China

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Fulton quoted in The Washington Post on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war

By Atlantic Council

China
Conflict

In the News

Dec 7, 2023

Fulton quoted in Axios on China’s neutrality in Israel-Hamas war

China
Conflict

Experts