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Regions Asia East Asia

East Asia

Top Stories

How to Avoid a War Over Taiwan

Threats, Assurances, and Effective Deterrence

Thomas J. Christensen, M. Taylor Fravel, Bonnie S. Glaser, Andrew J. Nathan, Jessica Chen Weiss

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Ann Wang / Reuters

What Are China’s Nuclear Weapons For?

Ashley J. Tellis, Tong Zhao

Made in China: When U.S.-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

Barry Eichengreen

Three Books on Technology, Governance, and Capitalism in China

Andrew J. Nathan

The Looming Crisis in the South China Sea

Michael J. Mazarr

Could Myanmar Come Apart?

Avinash Paliwal

The Big One

Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Andrew J. Nathan

An Ecological History of Modern China

Andrew J. Nathan

Reading the China Dream

Andrew J. Nathan

Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border

Andrew J. Nathan

Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence

Bonnie S. Glaser, Jessica Chen Weiss, Thomas J. Christensen

America and China Are Not Yet in a Cold War

Why China Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction

Michael R. Davidson

What Russia Really Wants

Will Xi’s Military Modernization Pay Off?

David M. Finkelstein

Who Killed the Chinese Economy?

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Michael Pettis, Adam S. Posen

American Universities Shouldn’t Cut All Ties With China

China’s Road to Ruin

Michael Bennon, Francis Fukuyama

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region

Andrew Moravcsik

Xi’s Age of Stagnation

China Is Ready for a World of Disorder

Don’t Count the Dictators Out

Lucan Ahmad Way

Is Myanmar the Frontline of a New Cold War?

Ye Myo Hein, Lucas Myers

What It Will Take to Deter China in the Taiwan Strait

David Sacks, Ivan Kanapathy

A New Approach to Arms Control

Ulrich Kühn, Heather Williams

What Does the West Really Know About Xi’s China?

Odd Arne Westad

Why the UN Still Matters

Kal Raustiala, Viva Iemanjá Jerónimo

The Illusion of China’s AI Prowess

Helen Toner, Jenny Xiao, Jeffrey Ding

China Is Flirting With AI Catastrophe

Bill Drexel, Hannah Kelley

America’s Best Bet in the Indo-Pacific

A Nuclear Collision Course in South Asia

Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

The U.S.-Chinese Economic Relationship Is Changing—but Not Vanishing

Jami Miscik, Peter Orszag, Theodore Bunzel

China’s Port Power

Isaac Kardon, Wendy Leutert

China’s Status Anxiety

Rohan Mukherjee

Can China Thread the Needle on Ukraine?

Why America Is Struggling to Stop the Fentanyl Epidemic

Vanda Felbab-Brown

How to Spot an Autocrat’s Economic Lies

Luis R. Martínez

How China’s Echo Chamber Threatens Taiwan

The President Can’t Counter China on His Own

Robert C. O’Brien , Arthur Herman

Xi Jinping Can’t Handle an Aging China

How to Spy on China

Why China Hasn’t Come to Russia’s Rescue

Agathe Demarais

The Bad Advice Plaguing Beijing’s Foreign Policy

How China Could Save Putin’s War in Ukraine

Liana Fix, Michael Kimmage

The Myth of Multipolarity

Stephen G. Brooks, William C. Wohlforth

In Defense of the Fence Sitters

The Perils of the New Industrial Policy

David Kamin, Rebecca Kysar

How to Survive a Great-Power Competition

Why America Still Needs Europe

Michael J. Mazarr

What’s Really Going on Between Russia and China

Alexander Gabuev

Navigating the New Age of Great-Power Competition

Bilahari Kausikan

The Age of Energy Insecurity

Jason Bordoff, Meghan L. O'Sullivan

How China’s Economic Slowdown Could Hurt the World

Daniel H. Rosen, Sophie Lu

America and China Need to Talk

Scott Kennedy, Wang Jisi

America Can Win the AI Race

America’s Looming Munitions Crisis

Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War

John Pomfret, Matt Pottinger

How to Out-Deter China

A New Order in the Middle East?

Maria Fantappie, Vali Nasr

Don’t Panic About Taiwan

Jessica Chen Weiss

China’s Consumption Conundrum

Damien Ma, Houze Song

The Restoration of Brazilian Foreign Policy

Hussein Kalout, Feliciano Guimarães

How China Became a Peacemaker in the Middle East

Trita Parsi, Khalid Aljabri

How Washington Overestimates Chinese Weakness

Christopher Johnson

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Barry Eichengreen

Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples: A Cultural Cartography of Empire

Andrew J. Nathan

The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership

Barry Eichengreen

The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet

Andrew J. Nathan

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Andrew J. Nathan

Two Books on Artificial Intelligence

Lawrence D. Freedman

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Andrew J. Nathan

Racism, Diplomacy, and International Relations

G. John Ikenberry

On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea

Andrew J. Nathan

Innovation Power

The Cashless Revolution: China’s Reinvention of Money and the End of America’s Domination of Finance and Technology

Barry Eichengreen

China’s Quest for Financial Self-Reliance: How Beijing Plans to Decouple From the Dollar-Based Global Trading and Financial System

Andrew J. Nathan

The Limits of the No-Limits Partnership

Patricia M. Kim

China’s Hidden Tech Revolution

Asia’s Third Way

Kishore Mahbubani

Behind Enemy Lines

Xi’s Law-and-Order Strategy

The Chinese Balloon Was a Necessary Wake-Up Call

Beth Sanner, Pete Fesler

Xi the Survivor

Christopher Johnson

The Developing World’s Coming Debt Crisis

Deborah Brautigam

China’s Hidden COVID Catastrophe

Trouble at the Roof of the World

Lisa Curtis, Derek Grossman

What China Has Learned From the Ukraine War

Evan A. Feigenbaum, Adam Szubin

Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order

Barry Eichengreen

China Hasn’t Given Up on the Belt and Road

Matt Schrader, J. Michael Cole

China’s Indo-Pacific Folly

Andrew D. Taffer, David Wallsh

America’s China Policy Is Not Working

Henry M. Paulson Jr.

Taiwan’s Urgent Task

Michael A. Brown

The Return of Export Controls

The Trouble With Trans-Pacific Trade

China’s New Anti-Uyghur Campaign

The Problem With Primacy

China’s Latin American Power Play

Julio Armando Guzmán

China’s Epidemic of Mistrust

The Missing Minerals

Morgan D. Bazilian, Gregory Brew

American Democracy Is Still in Danger

Brett L. Carter, Larry Diamond

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