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The Tiger Project: War and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Explore the Atlantic Council’s work on current and enduring defense and deterrence issues in the Indo-Pacific, featuring expert commentary, multimedia content, and in-depth analysis.

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The Global China Hub tracks Beijing’s actions and their global impacts, assessing China’s rise from multiple angles and identifying emerging China policy challenges. The Hub leverages its network of China experts around the world to generate actionable recommendations for policymakers in Washington and beyond.

The Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) informs and shapes the strategies, plans, and policies of the United States and its allies and partners to address the most important rising security challenges in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s growing threat to the international order and North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear weapons advancements. IPSI produces innovative analysis, conducts tabletop exercises, hosts public and private convenings, and engages with US, allied, and partner governments, militaries, media, other key private and public-sector stakeholders, and publics.

Events

Content

In the News

Feb 6, 2016

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

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Extremism

Defense Industrialist

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 […]

Defense Industry Japan

In the News

Feb 3, 2016

Nawaz Quoted by Rediff on US Relations with India and Pakistan

By Shuja Nawaz

Read the full article here.

India Pakistan

In the News

Jan 28, 2016

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss How the United States Should Respond to North Korea

By Jamie Metzl

Korea

In the News

Jan 25, 2016

Pham Quoted by ANI News on China’s Opening of a Military Base in Djibouti

By Peter J. Pham

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Africa China

In the News

Jan 22, 2016

Manning in Nikkei Asian Review: After Taiwan’s Political Earthquake: What Next?

By Robert A. Manning

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China Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 19, 2016

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Visit to the Middle East and China’s Middle East Challenge

By Jamie Metzl

Watch the full interview here.

China Middle East

In the News

Jan 19, 2016

Hruby Joins Knowledge@Wharton To Discuss Chinese Investment In Africa

By Aubrey Hruby

Read the full interview here.

Africa China

In the News

Jan 18, 2016

Ullman in UPI: If It’s the Economy, Stupid, What Can Be Done?

By Harlan Ullman

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China

New Atlanticist

Jan 16, 2016

Taiwan Just Elected its First Female President. Here’s Why it Matters.

By Robert A. Manning

There was little ambiguity in the landslide victory of Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP): Tsai won 56.1 percent of the vote, nearly twice that of Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Eric Chu, and the DPP won sixty-eight of the 113 seats in parliament. The election victory of the DPP, whose charter includes the goal […]

China Indo-Pacific

Experts

Events