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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

Fast Thinking

Aug 24, 2021

FAST THINKING: A sanctioned Taliban now rules Afghanistan’s multibillion-dollar economy. How do we deal with that?

By Hagar Hajjar Chemali, Brian O’Toole

On this episode of Fast Thinking, Hagar Chemali and Brian O'Toole, both nonresident senior fellows with the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, discuss what it means for the Taliban to be sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and how China and Russia may try to influence the situation on the ground.

Afghanistan
Extremism

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Schuman in The Atlantic: An ‘early test case’ for a China-led world

By Atlantic Council

On August 24, 2021, Michael Schuman published a story in The Atlantic, explaining that “how Beijing handles relations with Kabul—whether it can forge economic ties with the Taliban, how much political and diplomatic sway it seeks, and, most crucial, if it can use its leverage to influence the new regime—could offer a window into how […]

China
Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Nooruddin quoted in Al-Jazeera Balkans: “German general: Rising risk of ISIL suicide attacks.”

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Warrick quoted in CBS News on humanitarian parole

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Warrick in POLITICO on Afghan data security

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Thomas S. Warrick speaks to POLITICO on Afghan data in the hands of the Taliban.

Afghanistan
Crisis Management

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Cunningham quoted in Bangor Daily News on the situation in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Cunningham quoted in the Australian on the US exit from Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Duclos in Instituto Montaigne: “The Fall of Kabul and the Weight of Western Defeat”

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 24, 2021

Nasr quoted in VOA on the Taliban’s turn from insurgency to governing

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Aug 24, 2021

Could China become the Taliban’s new benefactor?

By Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Niels Graham

Beijing is eyeing major investments in Afghanistan—but it's up to the Taliban to ease its concerns about security.

Afghanistan
China

Experts

Events