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REFLECTING ON THE U.S. APEC HOST YEAR

APEC leaders committed to work together to keep markets open, address supply chain disruptions, and ensure that trade and investment benefit all our people. Their work also reflects the needs that the Asia-Pacific region faces right now, with commitments to accelerate efforts toward a clean and just energy transition—including tripling renewable energy capacity globally—and to halve the digital gender divide by 2030.

Read the full commentary by Ambassador Matt Murray and Steve Dyokas

U.S.-ROK Tech Cooperation

U.S.-ROK Tech Cooperation: Export Controls, Data Policy, and Artificial Intelligence

This new NBR Special Report assesses the current state of U.S.-ROK cooperation on export controls,...

Report

Cover illustration by Nate Christenson

Trade and Economics

Strategic Asia: Reshaping Economic Interdependence in the Indo-Pacific

Book

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Energy Transition

Thailand’s Path toward Carbon Neutrality and the Implications for the Mekong Subregion

Twarath Sutabutr

Essay

Ukraine War

China-Russia Energy Relations in the Wake of the War in Ukraine

Erica Downs

Regional Responses to the Russia-Ukraine War

Michael J. Green, Nargis Kassenova, Pavel K. Baev, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rajesh Rajagopalan, Jeffrey Reeves, Matthew Kroenig, and Clementine G. Starling

The Evolution of the Quad amid the War in Ukraine

Hayley Channer, Sheila A. Smith, Alison Szalwinski, and Akriti Vasudeva

Democracy in Asia

Putin’s Special Electoral Operation

Kathryn E. Stoner

Indonesia Elects Prabowo

Ann Marie Murphy

Taiwan’s Elections: A Fraught but Not Dire Equilibrium Endures

Robert Sutter

The Election in Bangladesh: What Happened and What Is in the Making?

Ali Riaz

MAPPING CHINA’S STRATEGIC SPACE

The Evolution of China’s Naval Strategy

China's Strategic Space in the Digital Undersea

Energy as a Strategic Space for China Words and Actions Point to a Competitive Future

China’s Geopolitical Code Shaping the Next World Order

The Polar Regions as New Strategic Frontiers for China

China’s Quest for Strategic Space in the Pacific Islands

The End of China’s Period of Strategic Opportunity Limited Opportunities, More Dangers

Central and Eastern Europe in Relation to China’s Strategic Space The Fizzling Out of a Ten-Year Campaign

Myanmar and China’s Fluid Frontier

IN THIS ISSUE

China’s Tech Policies and Development Responding to Great-Power Competition

Shifting Modes of Labor Regulation in Global Supply Chains

Space-Based Missile Warning An Opportunity to Deepen U.S.-Japan Security Cooperation

“Professionals Talk Logistics” Why Resupplying Taiwan in a Future War Will Be Harder Than Resupplying Ukraine

Ramon Pacheco Pardo’s South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny

LEGACY OF SENATOR HENRY M. “SCOOP” JACKSON

Remembering Scoop

Implementing Senator Jackson’s Values and Vision

Lessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (Part 1)

Lessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (Part 2)

Spotlight

NBR’s Maritime Awareness Project (MAP) combines interactive mapping technology with rigorous analyses from the world’s leading maritime experts to serve as the authoritative resource on maritime issues.