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China's Ambitions and George Kennan's Legacy
Paul Heer weighs in on how Xi Jinping thinks and what role the intelligence community should play in foreign policy.
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The Consequences of Downing China's Spy Balloon
Is China's spy balloon a wakeup call for closer monitoring of US airspace? Craig Kafura explores the answer with Brandis Friedman and Ian Hurd.
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Xi's Moscow Visit Was More Than a Symbolic Victory for Putin
Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow and meeting with Putin made clear that China-Russia relations will only grow stronger, Paul Poast writes.
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Is Beijing Serious about a Peace Plan in Ukraine?
Nonresident Senior Fellow Theresa Fallon weighs in on the opportunities the war in Ukraine presents to both Russia and China.
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A CAATSA Waiver for India: What's Really at Stake
If the U.S. wants to counter China’s military expansion, it cannot afford to jeopardize security ties with India.
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Between Chinese Overreach and American Overreaction
"It’s not too late for China and the United States to achieve some level of mutual understanding and common purpose," Paul Heer writes.
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The Next Battleground in Trump's Trade War: Vietnam
Vietnam is likely the Trump administration’s next trade target. But the calculus differs in key ways from China.
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Blinken Stresses "True Partnership" on Tour of Africa
"There's a little bit of FOMO if we aren't going to be there, that we're afraid of missing out on places that Russia and China are really prioritizing."
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Donald Trump’s Dismal Legacy in East Asia
The Trump administration helped fuel the worst downward spiral in US-China relations since diplomatic normalization more than forty years ago.
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Deterrence Lawfare to Save Taiwan
David Scheffer argues for Washington to employ "a powerful lawfare deterrent" towards China in the case of an invasion of Taiwan.
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Time for the Quad to Expand into Subnational Partnerships
To mitigate competition between China and members of the Quad, subnational diplomacy must take center stage, argues Matt Abbott in the Diplomat.
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Canada's Place in the Great Resource Game
"Notwithstanding China’s firm grip on global supply chains of critical minerals and rare earths, Canada can support a more predictable green transition."
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Biden's Summit for Democracy Isn't Really about Democracies
A key purpose of the meeting is to create a countercoalition against Russia and China, Paul Poast argues.
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Another War on Drugs Won't Solve the Fentanyl Crisis
Washington should ditch the military rhetoric and refocus efforts on work with China and Mexico, Emma Sanderson argues.
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Biden's Taiwan "Gaffe" Just Said the Quiet Part out Loud
Paul Poast argues that President Biden's declaration that the US would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China deserves a serious look.
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Talking Taiwan with Former National Intelligence Officer Paul Heer
Paul Heer examines the Taiwan conundrum — one of the thorniest and most fraught issues confronting the new Biden foreign policy team as it navigates the US-China relationship.
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"Ally On-Shoring" in the Age of China and Trump
In this episode, Garrison host's John C. Austin for a discussion of his theory of "Ally On-Shoring", a proposed method of economic and security cooperation among democracies in the face of the rising challenges of a revisionist China abroad and a
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Has Washington's Policy Toward Taiwan Crossed the Rubicon?
"If Taiwan […] is part of an international struggle against the PRC, how is that not a de facto ‘one China, one Taiwan’ policy?” writes Paul Heer in National Interest.
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Can Russia Be Barred from the G20 Summit?
Russian economics and politics cannot be separated, argues Elizabeth Shackelford on Al Jazeera. “If you have questions about that, just ask China.”
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The Geopolitics of Biden's G7 Trip
As world leaders meet in Japan, they are likely to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and economic coercion from China, Craig Kafura tells Steve Scully.
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Support for Taiwan Among US Public Increases: Poll
New polls find that 52 percent of Americans now favor sending US troops to defend Taiwan if China invades. Craig Kafura talks to Taiwan Plus about what this means.
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Can America Keep the Cold War Cold in the Taiwan Strait?
Both the United States and China claim to want peace and stability. But keeping the peace will require foregoing zero-sum games, something neither side looks ready to do.
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Americans Want to Defend Taiwan. The Pentagon's Budget Should, Too
To meet the public demand to compete with China, “the Defense Department needs the budget required to do it,” writes Chet Lee in Defense One.
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'Ally-Shoring' Will Help US Rebuild Economy and Global Leadership
Ally-shoring describes a program of sourcing essential materials, goods, and services with trusted friends while disengaging from China and other states that seek to undermine American interests from critical supply chains.
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The Joe Biden-Xi Jinping Summit: Nothing Accomplished?
Despite Washington and Beijing’s apparent satisfaction with the meeting, the tensions at the heart of the relationship show no signs of abating, Paul Heer writes.
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To Deter China, Taiwan Must Prepare for War
Military conscription is a good start, but leaders in Taipei need to act with greater urgency still, Ethan Kessler writes.
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People Around the World Will Demand Change in 2020. Will Global Leaders Be up to the Challenge?
We enter the ’20s at a time when American power and influence continues to wane, China’s is increasing and people all around the world are making clear that their voices need to be heard.
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What the Coronavirus Vaccine Roll-Out Says about Innovation in an Age of Geopolitical Rivalry
Kris Hartley and Asit K. Biswas discuss intellectual property protection and diplomacy through vaccine provision.
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Shifting from "Relentless War" to "Relentless Diplomacy"
"In order for democracies to compete with authoritarian regimes like China, they have to prove that they can deliver for their people at home," Council President Daalder tells CNN.
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The Real Motivation behind Iran's Deal with Saudi Arabia
“The agreement is about far more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh,” argue Nonresident Senior Fellow Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi.
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How the Data Revolution Will Help Fight Climate Change
“We can use Big Data to understand and communicate the planetary crisis while simultaneously measuring progress,” Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah writes in Foreign Policy.
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South Korea's Success in Containing the Coronavirus Highlights Importance of Digital Resilience
One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not
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US-China Detente Likely to Remain Elusive in 2024
"As the new year rolls in, mutual distrust continues to obstruct mutual understanding," Paul Heer writes.
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City Leaders Go Abroad: A Survey of City Diplomacy in 47 Cities
Cities recognize the importance of city diplomacy but also lack necessary resources to fulfill the commitments they make to global agendas, Council fellows Kris Hartley and Michele Acuto explain.
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Who Failed in the Coronavirus Response? A Look at the Timeline
There is little doubt that the WHO was slow in responding to the danger represented by the emergence of a potentially new virus in China and that it was too willing to accept Beijing’s statements of what was happening. It should have known better.
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Nuclear Threat Means Relations between Russia and NATO Must Not Get Any Worse
Council President Ivo Daalder explains why China and Russia are the biggest threats to the transatlantic alliance in a segment for the UK's Channel 4 news.
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Why the world's mayors are stepping up on global issues
Mainstream political parties on both the right and the left are scrambling to capture the momentum and accommodate what they see as a profoundly nationalist moment in global politics.
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How the War in Ukraine Changed American Attitudes to Foreign Policy
"Right now, I think Russia represents the bigger threat. China represents the bigger long-term competition," says Council President Ivo Daalder, discussing the 2022 Chicago Council Survey.
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What Not to Worry about with Chinese Balloon over United States
China’s balloon was not a “real strategic threat,” says Bruce Jentleson. “Our satellites overfly China all the time and theirs overfly us.”
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US House Speaker Pelosi Arrives in Taiwan, Defying Beijing
Craig Kafura joins Chicago Tonight to discuss Speaker Pelosi's Taiwan trip and whether or not it complicates the relationship between the US and China.
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Disappointments Abound in 2022 Pentagon Budget
“Blindly increasing our defense dollars isn’t a path to more security,” writes Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune.
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What a BRICS Expansion Means for the US
The bloc's popularity signals dissatisfaction with the Western-run global order, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
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Will NATO's Vilnius Summit Advance Ukraine’s Victory?
NATO should focus its attention on the problem right next door, not on China, argues Council CEO Ivo Daalder.