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June 26
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Ralph Cossa, President of the CSIS Pacific Forum, was quoted by the Washington Post, "North Korea Details Nuclear Program."
President Bush today lifted some trade sanctions against North Korea and acted to remove the country from a list of states that sponsor terrorism, after the isolated Stalinist regime turned over a key document detailing its rogue nuclear program. "No one in Japan is satisfied, but the Bush administration can say we have pressured North Korea to reopen negotiations with Japan about the abductees," said Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu. Cossa said that the principal regional losers, if North Korea is removed from the terrorist list, will be "Japan and the image of the United States in Japan. The U.S. is now seen as less reliable than it has been for years." Read more
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June 26
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Ralph Cossa, president of the CSIS Pacific Forum, was quoted by Time Magazine, "The US Makes Nice to North Korea."
Nevertheless, Bush administration officials argue, with some justification, that this week's episode in the negotiations is big victory for their diplomacy with the North. "There's no question that the end of Yongbyan is significant," says Ralph Cossa, President of the Pacific Forum, a think tank affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It eliminates the source of the plutonium that Kim has used to build his bombs.Read more
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June 17
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Ralph Cossa, president of the CSIS Pacific Forum, was interviewed by Al Adams of Hawaii Public Radio.
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June 3
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Ralph Cossa, president of the CSIS Statesmen's Forum, was quoted by Defense News, "China Expands Presence at Shangri-La Dialogue."
SINGAPORE - For a second consecutive year, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sent speakers to participate in the annual meeting of defense ministers hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) at the Shangri-La Hotel here May 30 to June 1.Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said it was good to see another three-star officer participating in the talks. In 2007, China sent its first delegation speaker, Lt. Gen. Zhang Qinsheng. "[It's] also good to see the questions aimed at the Chinese were a bit tougher this time and that Ma did not avoid them all - he didn't necessarily fully answer them all, but was better than his predecessor last year, who avoided everything," Cossa said. Read more
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January 12
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Ralph Cossa, president of Pacific Forum CSIS, Brad Glosserman, Executive Director of Pacific Forum CSIS, and Bonnie Glaser, a CSIS senior associate, were quoted by the Associated Press, "U.S. Lawmakers to Focus on China."
With the presidential campaign heating up, "2008 promises to be a trying year" for U.S.-China ties, wrote Brad Glosserman and Bonnie Glaser, analysts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "There will be a temptation to make China a foreign policy issue or a scapegoat for problems in economic and security policy." Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS think tank, noted worry that congressional support for Taiwan's U.N. membership could encourage Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian to do something that China would see as a push for independence. Chen is trying to carve out a non-Chinese identity for the island. "Hopefully, they won't do too much," Cossa said of Congress, "because nothing makes things worse than congressional efforts to make them better." Read the article
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