Indo-Pacific

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

By Jamie Metzl

Pham Quoted by Maghreb Arabe Presse on Visit of King Mohammed VI of Morocco in China

By J. Peter Pham

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Ambassador Khalilzad Interviewed by The Hindu US Policy in the Middle East and US Presidential Elections

By Atlantic Council

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Manning in Global Times: United States Split on Future Relations with China

By Robert Manning

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Australia’s big bet on submarines

By James Hasik

What might the RAN know that other navies don’t? The Australian submarine deal is old news at this point. As announced last week, DCNS of France will work with ASC (originally Australian Submarine Corporation) over the next three years to design a new class of submarines to replace the existing six Collins-class boats, built by […]

Manning in Korean Joongang Daily: Call for Nuclear Cooperation

By Robert Manning

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Traffickers Find Novel Ways of Smuggling Drugs into Iran from Afghanistan

By Fatemeh Aman

It sounds like something from the Middle Ages but it’s the latest method for drug traffickers along the Iran-Afghanistan border. The commander of Sistan and Baluchestan’s border guard, Raham Bakhsh Habibi, says that drug traffickers are smuggling drugs into Iran by using a catapult made of special metal fixtures and tire tubes that can toss packages weighing 10 […]

Dupont in The Australian: Cybersphere is the Globe’s New Battlefront

By Alan Dupont

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