Indo-Pacific

Roberts in Nikkei Asia on Beijing’s recent crackdown on private businesses and its implications for China’s economic future

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On September 10, 2021, Nikkei Asia published an op-ed by Asia Security Initiative senior fellow Dexter Tiff Roberts titled, “Lacking a better game plan, Beijing will pick off more industries.” The article explores Beijing’s “squeeze” on technology sectors and highlights China’s growing economic vulnerabilities. Roberts argues that “this is bad news for Beijing’s plan to […]

Ashford in Defense Priorities: Lessons from Afghanistan

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On September 10, Ashford contributed to a Defense Priorities Symposium on the lessons from the war in Afghanistan. “Defense Priorities organized this symposium to stimulate thinking about the most important lesson U.S. strategists and decisionmakers should take away from America’s longest war. Below are responses from scholars and experts who—unlike the architects and proponents of […]

Slocombe and Soofer call for the US to stay the course in missile defense in Breaking Defense

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Walter Slocombe and Robert Soofer argue that the United States should stay the bipartisan course in missile defense policy.

Sales quoted in Fox News on how the new Taliban is the same as the old Taliban

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Sales quoted in Fox News on Americans left in Afghanistan

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Nasr joins SAIS faculty experts and affiliates for a two part discussion on Afghanistan from 9/11 to the Present: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Ashford in Politico: Defense Priorities’ symposium on lessons from Afghanistan

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On September 10, Politico featured in its National Security Daily newsletter a Defense Priorities’s symposium on the lessons from the war in Afghanistan to which Emma Ashford contributed to. “FIRST IN NATSEC DAILY — AFGHANISTAN LESSONS LEARNED: The pro-restraint Defense Priorities think tank will post an expert symposium of lessons from the war in Afghanistan […]

Sakhi joined the Wilson Center for a comprehensive discussion: “Hindsight Up Front: Implications of Afghanistan Withdrawal for China and Russia”

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