Content

In the News

Jan 7, 2016

Metzl on China Stock Market Crash

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN to discuss the various issues that may have led to China’s stock market crash and its consequences for global currency markets:

China

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2016

China Still Holds the Key for Getting Tough with Pyongyang

By Jamie Metzl

The fourth North Korean nuclear test is a big deal and an additional provocation but not a game changer. In the coming days and weeks, many countries will condemn the test and additional sanctions will be considered in the United Nations Security Council. None of this will alter the geopolitics of the Korean peninsula in […]

China Korea

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2016

North Korea’s Nuclear Test Will Deepen Pyongyang’s Isolation

By Robert A. Manning

North Korea’s fourth nuclear test may have set in motion forces that will lead to painful new UN sanctions, greater levels of isolation, and impact its ties with China and South Korea while altering security dynamics in East Asia. Nuclear experts doubt Pyongyang’s claim that it tested a hydrogen weapon on January 6. Analysis of […]

China Korea

In the News

Jan 6, 2016

Metzl on North Korea’s Bomb Test

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN to discuss how North Korea’s claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb will change foreign policy in Asia:

Korea

In the News

Jan 5, 2016

Manning: What Type of Great Power Does China Want to Be?

By Robert A. Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning writes for Foreign Policy on what China stands to gain and lose in 2016 coming out of its foreign policy strategy from 2015:

China

In the News

Jan 5, 2016

Tanchum on Energy Politics in Eurasia

By Micha'el Tanchum

Interfax quotes Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Micha’el Tanchum on competition between Europe and China for Middle Eastern and Central Asian gas:

China Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Jan 4, 2016

Shaffer on Global Oil Market Amid Saudi Arabia-Iran Relations

By Brenda Shaffer

The Houston Chronicle quotes Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Brenda Shaffer on how China is increasingly becoming the primary market driver in oil over the Middle East:

China Middle East

In the News

Dec 27, 2015

Manning: Is China Becoming a ‘Responsible Stakeholder’?

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for Nikkei Asian Review on whether China is seeking to create competing vision of world order or seeking a larger role in a reformed international system:

China

In the News

Dec 25, 2015

Manning: Increasing Sanctions is Just one Part of the North Korean Puzzle

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes a letter to the editor to the Washington Post on why progress is unlikely if the Six-Party Talks are restarted with North Korea:

Korea

In the News

Dec 24, 2015

Ward: Three Ways an Asian War Could Erupt

By Alex Ward

Brent Scowcroft Center Associate Director Alex Ward writes for The National Interest on how the relative regional stability in northeast Asia today could change quickly:

China Japan

Experts

Events