Indo-Pacific

Encompassing the nations of South and East Asia, the Indo-Pacific holds some of the greatest promise and most difficult challenges in the world. Home to some of the fastest-growing economies, greater trade links and development cooperation are positioning the region to be the driver of economic growth in the next century. Lingering conflicts and growing geopolitical competition between the region’s powers, however, could endanger the stability of the region and limit its potential global leadership.

Projects

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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

MENASource

Sep 10, 2024

In the age of great power competition, the threat of another 9/11 still looms large

By Kristian Alexander

Unlike the early years of the Global War on Terror, threats today are more amorphous and more deeply embedded within local conflicts.

Afghanistan Conflict

Issue Brief

Sep 10, 2024

Russian and Chinese strategic missile defense: Doctrine, capabilities, and development

By Jacob Mezey

In a follow up to Matthew R. Costlow and Robert M. Soofer's paper, US Homeland Missile Defense: Room for Expanded Roles, former Forward Defense Program Assistant, Jacob Mezey, seeks to inform debates about missile defense policy by placing arguments that US ballistic missile defenses are uniquely destabilizing in the context of efforts by Russia and China to deploy similar systems.

China Defense Policy

In the News

Sep 10, 2024

Bauerle Danzman quoted by Nikkei Asia on the growing trend of state-level restrictions on Chinese investments in the US

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China Economy & Business

In the News

Sep 9, 2024

Hinata-Yamaguchi quoted in Domino Theory on Japan-NATO relations

On September 6, IPSI nonresident senior fellow Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi was quoted in Domino Theory regarding the visit of the Italian Navy aircraft carrier Cavour and its escort ship Alpino to Japan. Hinata-Yamaguchi noted that Japan values its evolving relationship with NATO as a means of promoting cooperation on global security issues as well as on security technologies. 

Defense Policy Defense Technologies

In the News

Sep 9, 2024

Asat in Yale University Genocide Studies Program: “Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression and Mass Imprisonment”

By Atlantic Council

China Human Rights

In the News

Sep 9, 2024

Asat quoted in ABC News on determining China’s Uyghur policies to be a ‘racialised atrocity crime’

By Atlantic Council

China Human Rights

In the News

Sep 9, 2024

Bauerle Danzman quoted by Nikkei on President Biden plans to suspend Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel

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Japan United States and Canada

Report

Sep 9, 2024

Sharing the post carbon economy means building a resilient EV supply chain

By Sarah Bauerle Danzman

In this report Sarah Bauerle Danzman advances the policy discussion by compiling trade, investment, and EV industrial policy data across the G20, and offers six recommendations to the G20 to build a resilient EV supply chain.

Brazil China

In the News

Sep 8, 2024

Lipsky quoted and CBDC tracker cited by The Wire China on Facebook’s Libra and China’s digital yuan pilot

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China Digital Currencies

In the News

Sep 7, 2024

Bauerle Danzman quoted by Reuters on the US broadening national security definition amid Nippon Steel’s US Steel acquisition plans

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Japan Oil and Gas

Experts

Events