November 8, 2017

Risk and Resiliency: China’s Emerging Air Base Strike Threat

By: Oriana Skylar Mastro and Ian Easton | Given the centrality of air power for U.S. power projection in the Western Pacific, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army […]
September 29, 2017

The Framework for a U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement

By: Derek M. Scissors and Daniel Blumenthal | The United States and Japan can create a bilateral free trade and investment agreement that both sides will sign and ratify. […]
July 17, 2017

Negotiating History: The Chinese Communist Party’s 1981

By: Robert L. Suettinger | Over the decades, leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have used the control of history to bolster their own political standing, […]
July 10, 2017

Dangerous Truths: The Panchen Lama’s 1962 Report and China’s Broken Promise of Tibetan Autonomy

By: Matthew Akester | The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sustained a strategy to manipulate history and subjugate Tibet in order to maintain Party rule. As outlined […]
June 26, 2017

The Logic of Historical Nihilism: Analyzing the PRC Orthodoxy on the Origins of the Korean War

By: Miles M. Yu | The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) utilizes its own narrative of the Korean War to fulfill the Party’s strategic interests. Historical evidence, […]
May 16, 2017

The Limits of CCP Liaison Work: Sino-Vietnamese Relations

By: David Gitter and Elsa Kania | The PRC has fully leveraged its relative receptiveness to communist liaison work, carried out through CCP Central Committee’s International […]
May 9, 2017

The People’s Republic of China and Burma: Not Only Pauk-Phaw

By: Bertil Lintner | Pauk-Phaw was a term coined in the 1950s to describe the supposedly friendly and close relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) […]
October 17, 2016

Challenges Facing Taiwan in the South China Sea

By: Ian Easton | In principle, Taiwan’s sovereignty claims and territorial holdings in the South China Sea should be viewed by the U.S. as an asset. […]
July 5, 2016

Reaching the Limits: China as a Responsible Stakeholder

By: John Lee | Given the U.S.-China economic relationship and China’s importance in Asia, America’s temptation is to seek a comprehensive cooperative framework to perpetuate its […]
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