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Dispatch from Hong Kong: How the ‘geoeconomic city’ is weathering global headwinds

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Manning in Foreign Policy: Will China Join Its North Korean Ally in Splendid Isolation?

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Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

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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.

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Manning in Foreign Policy: Will China Join Its North Korean Ally in Splendid Isolation?

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Reading between the lines of Taiwan’s new Quadrennial Defense Review

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Feb 11, 2016

Manning in Foreign Policy: Will China Join Its North Korean Ally in Splendid Isolation?

By Robert A. Manning

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New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2016

Could China Use Force to Settle Taiwan Sovereignty Issue?

By Mitch Hulse

China-Taiwan relations have warmed significantly as a consequence of increased economic interdependence, but some analysts believe that Beijing may ultimately use force to settle the issue of Taiwan’s sovereignty. The election in January of Taiwan’s first female President, Tsai Ing-wen, who leads the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, has been viewed warily by Beijing. Soon after […]

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Feb 10, 2016

Call for Applications – Emerging Leaders of Pakistan

The emerging Leaders of Pakistan is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for 2016 Fellowship Program! We are seeking 15 young, dynamic women and men from across Pakistan to join a cohort of fellows from 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. The Emerging Leaders of Pakistan Fellowship Program seeks to empower the next […]

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Feb 10, 2016

Manning in Nikkei Asian Review: What China’s Humiliation by North Korea Means for East Asia

By Robert A. Manning

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Feb 9, 2016

Manning Quoted by The Korea Times on North Korea’s Missile Development Program

By Robert A. Manning

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Feb 9, 2016

Metzl in The National Interest: Changing China’s North Korea Calculus

By Jamie Metzl

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Feb 8, 2016

Metzl Joins Bloomberg Business to Discuss China’s Falling Exchange Rate and Economic Reform

By Jamie Metzl

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New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2016

China Pays the Price for North Korea’s Belligerence

By Robert A. Manning

North Korea’s fourth nuclear test followed by a ballistic missile launch have ominous implications—a North Korea in possession of miniaturized warheads and a delivery system. These developments have rattled nerves and escalated tensions in Northeast Asia. The outrage over North Korea’s flagrant violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions has reverberated worldwide, yet China, North […]

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Feb 6, 2016

Biberman in Terrorism and Political Violence: Why terrorists target children: Outbidding, desperation, and extremism in the Peshawar and Beslan school massacres

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Feb 4, 2016

Options unconsidered

By James Hasik

Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker, as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time, buddy-tanking F-18 Hornets has been a questionable use of other Hornets, but one  completely necessitated since 2009 […]

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