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New Atlanticist

Aug 20, 2015

Hacks and Attacks: How Do You React When China Conducts a Cyber Attack?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

World had similar feeling of being violated after Snowden’s revelations, says Atlantic Council’s Jason Healey When the news broke earlier this summer that hackers had breached the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and accessed the records of more than twenty million current and former federal employees, it prompted calls to punish China, which was believed […]

China Cybersecurity

Defense Industrialist

Aug 20, 2015

Kasich wants carriers

By James Hasik

A fleet of fifteen Fords is infeasible, but smaller ships could be added fast. On Saturday, Newport News Shipbuilding will hold a keel-laying ceremony for USS John F. Kennedy, the second of the Gerald Ford-class carriers. Ohio Governor John Kasich is running for president, and he wants yet more aircraft carriers. About five more super-carriers, though […]

China Defense Industry

In the News

Aug 19, 2015

Tanchum: India’s Changing Energy Policy

By Micha'el Tanchum

Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Micha’el Tanchum writes for Asia & The Pacific Policy Society on India’s move toward a natural gas-powered economy and its increase in domestically produced coal bed methane: 

Energy & Environment India

In the News

Aug 17, 2015

Huntsman on China’s Currency Devaluation

By Jon M. Huntsman

Atlantic Council Chairman Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. joins CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to discuss the global market reaction to China’s multiple currency devaluations:

China

In the News

Aug 17, 2015

Metzl on Japanese History

By Jamie Metzl

The Asahi Shimbum quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl on the need for Japan to accept its history in order to move forward, in light of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s war anniversary statement:

Japan

New Atlanticist

Aug 14, 2015

Abe Speech May Exorcize the Ghosts of History

By Robert A. Manning

In an Asia haunted by the ghosts of history, the world was watching with baited breath to see how Japan’s nationalistic Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, would address the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II. To the surprise of many, Abe’s Cabinet-approved speech was an amply dignified and contrite effort that attempted to […]

Japan

In the News

Aug 14, 2015

Slavin Moderates Issues in the News

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin moderates Voice of America’s Issues in the News, discussing the explosions in China, the devaluation of the yuan, the anti-corruption measures in Iraq, and the re-opening of the US Embassy in Havana:

China Cuba

In the News

Aug 13, 2015

Brummer on China’s Economy

By Chris Brummer

C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance Chris Brummer joins BBC World Service to discuss Chinese measures to halt the slide in the Shanghai stock exchange:

China

In the News

Aug 13, 2015

Metzl on China’s Currency Change

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CBS News to discuss China devaluing its currency by 2 percent, leading to a drop in the US stock market:

China Economy & Business

In the News

Aug 12, 2015

Manning: Iran Deal Heralds Deeper Sino-US Cooperation

By Robert A. Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning writes for Global Times on how the nuclear deal with Iran could herald deeper Sino-US cooperation:

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