Pham and Bello Quoted in ISS Today on China’s Salami Slicing

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

Pham and Bello Quoted in ISS Today on China’s Salami Slicing

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

Pham and Bello Quoted in ISS Today on China’s Salami Slicing

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

Content

In the News

Oct 3, 2018

Pham and Bello Quoted in ISS Today on China’s Salami Slicing

By J. Peter Pham and Abdoul Salam Bello

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China

IranSource

Oct 3, 2018

China: Iran’s Lifeline to Overcome Oil Sanctions

By Brendon Hong

If the relationship between Iran and China is not severed, US sanctions on the Tehran will never be fully effective, and the Trump administration’s dream of forcing a new deal will never come to fruition.

China
Iran

Strategic Insights Memo

Oct 3, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and National Security

By Matthew Kroenig and Anastasia Kazteridis

TO: US National Security Community FROM: Matthew Kroenig and Anastasia Kazteridis DATE: October 3, 2018 SUBJECT: Artificial Intelligence and National Security This Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Strategic Insights Memo briefly frames the emerging issue of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for national security. It provides: A brief primer on AI; Its possible […]

China
Defense Technologies

In the News

Sep 26, 2018

Metzl in the Hill: US has an Ace up its Sleeve in the Great Race with China: Immigration

By Jamie Metzl

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China

New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2018

Trump accuses China of meddling in midterms. It’s all about trade.

By David A. Wemer

Trump offered no specific evidence of China’s purported “meddling” during his speech, but tied it directly to the trade issue, saying Beijing wants him to lose “because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade and we are winning on trade.”

China
Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Sep 25, 2018

Trump puts America first at the United Nations

By Ashish Kumar Sen and David A. Wemer

“The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship,” US President Donald J. Trump told the assembled leaders, but “we only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”

International Organizations
Iran

In the News

Sep 24, 2018

Vershbow Joins Fox Business to Discuss North Korea

By Alexander Vershbow

Watch the full discussion here.

Korea

In the News

Sep 21, 2018

Manning in the Hill: Positive Moon-Kim Summit Creates a Diplomatic Opening in North Korea

By Robert A. Manning

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Korea

In the News

Sep 20, 2018

O’Toole Quoted in Newsweek on CAATSA

By Brian O'Toole

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China
Russia

New Atlanticist

Sep 19, 2018

Testing North Korea’s nuclear offer

By Ashish Kumar Sen

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to dismantle missile facilities in the presence of international inspectors and take steps toward denuclearization—provided the United States takes “corresponding measures.”

Japan
Korea
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