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Mar 5, 2018

Vershbow Joins CNN to Discuss South Koreans Visiting Kim Jong Un

By Alexander Vershbow

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Korea

In the News

Mar 2, 2018

Ahmad in The Hill: The Taliban Should Accept the Afghan Olive Branch

By Javid Ahmad

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Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2018

Trump May Get His Trade War After All

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump’s surprise decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and a tweeted declaration that “trade wars are good” have set off alarm bells across the globe while causing the stock market to plunge.

China Economy & Business

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Mar 1, 2018

Manning Quoted in Korea Times on North Korea Policy Chaos

By Robert A. Manning

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Korea

Event Recap

Mar 1, 2018

Afghanistan: Assessing progress and prospects for regional connectivity

By Nidhi Upadhyaya

Over the last three years, there has been enormous progress reached in the areas of regional connectivity in South Asia. Given Afghanistan’s geographic status as a land bridge between Central Asia and South Asia, and a catalyst for bulk energy transfers between these regions, it is possible that it can also serve a major role […]

Afghanistan

In the News

Mar 1, 2018

Timor Leste is an international intervention success story

By John T. Watts

English Indo-Pacific

In the News

Feb 28, 2018

Wormuth Joins VOA to Discuss China’s Beijing’s Term Limit Decision

By Christine Wormuth

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China

New Atlanticist

Feb 28, 2018

Is Peace Possible in Afghanistan?

By Carmen Gentile

Amid ongoing, deadly attacks in the Afghan capital and elsewhere, the Taliban has reached out to the United States to begin peace talks aimed at ending more than seventeen years of conflict between US-led forces and the once-ruling extremist group. At least, that’s what the group’s open letter in February reads. In it, the Taliban […]

Afghanistan Pakistan

In the News

Feb 26, 2018

Manning Quoted in VOA on U.S. Willing to Talk With N. Korea

By Robert A. Manning

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Korea

New Atlanticist

Feb 26, 2018

In China, the Dawn of the Xi Dynasty?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Chinese President Xi Jinping was nine years old when his father, a prominent communist revolutionary and vice premier of China, had a falling out with Mao Zedong. The year was 1962. Xi Zhongxun was accused of supporting a novel that Mao opposed. For this crime he was stripped of his titles, demoted, and sent to […]

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