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What's Happening with China's Belt and Road?
July 31, 2019 | Jonathan E. Hillman
In Reconnecting Asia Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy vision, the Belt and Road Initiative, is a long-term strategy to make China the center of the global economy. Can China deliver on its ambitious plans? CSIS Reconnecting Asia Director Jonathan Hillman explains what's happening with China's...

Interactive
China’s Strategic Situational Awareness Capabilities
July 30, 2019
In On the Radar

China has invested considerably in advancing its strategic situational awareness capabilities. The People's Liberation Army is developing a more mature architecture to enhance its ability to conduct nuclear counterattack and conventional operations.

Commentary
New Manufacturing and New Workers
July 29, 2019 | William Alan Reinsch Why is it so hard to fill the hundreds of thousands of unfilled manufacturing jobs? The newest Scholl Chair report may offer a clue.

Newsletter
RESOLVED: Japan Needs A Two-Party System
July 29, 2019 In this issue, the CSIS Japan Chair invited Professor Koji Murata of Doshisha University and Professor Alisa Gaunder of Southwestern University to survey Japan’s political landscape and assess whether the country needs a two-party system.

Commentary
Is Peace Actually on the Horizon in Afghanistan?
July 26, 2019 | Earl Anthony Wayne The momentum for peace in Afghanistan is growing but getting to a peace agreement will be a complex and bumpy, subject to delays, detours and dashed hopes, argue Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne and Ambassador Rick Olson.

Newsletter
Global Economics Monthly, July 2019
July 26, 2019 We are pleased to share the July 2019 Issue of the Global Economics Monthly (GEM), the monthly newsletter of the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy.

Blog Post
Numbers or Perceptions? A Widening Gap in Evaluating China’s Innovation
July 25, 2019
From Trustee China Hand

Is China innovative if people don’t believe it is? There are a large number of cross-national metrics of innovation, and there is a growing difference between indices based on perceptions and those based on quantitative indicators.

Report
China’s New 2019 Defense White Paper
July 24, 2019 | Anthony H. Cordesman For all the furor over Iran and the Gulf, or Britain and Brexit, the most important foreign news of the month is what would normally be a relatively obscure Chinese official document: China’s National Defense in the New Era.

Commentary
Only the United States Can Pull Japan and Korea Back from the Brink
July 23, 2019 As Japan-South Korea relations plummet to a postwar nadir, CSIS’s Patrick Buchan and Benjamin Rimland explore how the United States, as senior alliance partner, should respond to protect trilateral cooperation.

Critical Questions
Japan’s Upper House Elections: Stability over Disruption
July 22, 2019 | Michael J. Green, Nicholas Szechenyi On July 21, Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe secured a majority in elections for the upper house of the Diet. CSIS’s Michael Green and Nicholas Szechenyi address the implications for Abe’s political and diplomatic agenda.

Commentary
Is the State Department’s 'Commission on Unalienable Rights' Relevant for North Korea?
July 18, 2019 | Robert R. King

Ambassador Robert R. King discusses the U.S. State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights and what it means for addressing human rights violations in North Korea. 

Report
Engaging with India’s Electrification Agenda
July 17, 2019 | Kartikeya Singh, Stephen J. Naimoli

In support of India’s electrification and power sector reform agenda, the CSIS U.S.-India State and Urban Initiative identifies opportunities for international partners to help build capacity in key Indian states.

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