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U.S.-China Competition

Navigating Tumultuous Times in the Indo-Pacific

Michael J. Green and Ashley J. Tellis

Strategic Asia 2021–22

U.S.-China Competition for Global Influence

Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills

The Return of U.S.-China Strategic Competition

Ashley J. Tellis

China in Africa

Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa

Rachel Bernstein, Yunnan Chen, Daria Impiombato, Mareike Ohlberg, Mandira Bagwandeen, Roukaya Kasenally, and Nadège Rolland

China's Emerging Africa Strategy

Nadège Rolland

Political Front Lines: China's Pursuit of Influence in Africa

(In)Roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy

Trade and Innovation

Geoeconomic Crossroads

Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit

Japan’s Role and Strategy in the Formation of Digital Trade Rules in the Indo-Pacific

Hideyuki Miura

U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls on the PRC

China’s Strategic Approach to the Digital Revolution

Emily de La Bruyère, Nigel Cory, Samantha Hoffman, Greg Levesque, Doug Strub, Karen M. Sutter, and Matt Turpin

Energy and Geopolitics

Mongolia’s Development of Critical Minerals

Charles Krusekopf

Energy Security and Trade in APEC

Mikkal E. Herberg

The Twin Transnational Threats of Climate Change and Covid-19 in Micronesia

Alan Tidwell

Critical Minerals: Global Supply Chains and Indo-Pacific Geopolitics

Sharon E. Burke, Llewelyn Hughes, Phung Quoc Huy, Kristin Vekasi, and Yu-Hsuan Wu

China's Vision

An Emerging China-Centric Order

Chinese Perspectives on International Relations in the Xi Jinping Era

Ren Xiao and Liu Ming

A “China Model”? Beijing’s Promotion of Alternative Global Norms and Standards

Nadège Rolland

China's Vision for a New World Order

Nadège Rolland

People's Liberation Army

China's Military Decision-making in Times of Crisis and Conflict

Modernizing Deterrence: How China Coerces, Compels, and Deters

Learned Helplessness: China’s Military Instrument and Southeast Asian Security

Zachary Abuza and Cynthia Watson

Enabling a More Externally Focused and Operational PLA

China's Leadership

Beijing’s Zero-Covid Flip-Flop

William C. McCahill Jr.

"Security" and "Struggle"

William C. McCahill Jr. and Nadège Rolland

Xi Jinping’s Uncomfortable Crown

William C. McCahill Jr.

Kevin Rudd’s The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the U.S. and Xi Jinping's China

Susan Thornton, Rory Medcalf, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Carla P. Freeman, and Kevin Rudd

IP Theft

Why Engagement with Indo-Pacific Judiciaries Matters

Peter N. Fowler

U.S.-China Intellectual Property Issues in a Post-Phase-One Era

Mark Cohen

Guardians of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century

Steven Carnovale

The Criminal Bias in U.S. Intellectual Property Diplomacy

Mark Cohen

Indo-Pacific Security

Nuclear Negotiations on the Korean Peninsula amid Great-Power Competition

John Delury

Commercialized Militarization

Greg Levesque

Nuclear North Korea and Japan

Richard Lawless

Exploring India's Strategic Futures

Arzan Tarapore

Alliances/Partnerships

A Cleaner Australia-U.S. Alliance

James Bowen

The Future of Trilateralism under the Biden-Yoon-Kishida Administrations

Clint Work, Heino Klinck, and Evans J.R. Revere

The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan

Adam P. Liff

The Evolution of the Quad amid the War in Ukraine

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

Taiwan Strait

Regional Voices on Escalating Tensions in the Taiwan Strait

Sungmin Cho, Kei Koga, Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Yisuo Tzeng, Huong Le Thu, and Andrea Chloe Wong

The United States, Japan, and Taiwan

Sheila A. Smith

Strategic Clarity and the Future of U.S.-Taiwan Foreign Relations

Raymond Kuo

In Defense of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait

Steven M. Goldstein

Maritime Security

Common Waters

Ryan Ashley and Jada Fraser

Law and (Dis)order in the South China Sea

Hong Kong To Nguyen

From Maritime Quad to Tech Quintet

Ryan Fedasiuk and Elliot Silverberg

Dynamics of Assertiveness in the South China Sea

Andrew Chubb

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