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Burke Chair reports on Asia cover economics, security, government, and military affairs in and around the Asian continent

Key issues covered in this section include Chinese military modernization and force development; North Korean weapons of mass destruction; regional Asian conventional military balances; energy developments in the Caspian, Central Asia, and Iran; and weapons of mass destruction in South Asia, India, and Pakistan.

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U.S. Strategy: Rebalancing Global Energy between Europe, Russia, and Asia and U.S. Security Policy in the Middle East and the Gulf

The Ukraine War has shown there is an immediate need to create alternative oil and gas supplies for America’s strategic partners in Europe and Asia, writes CSIS’s Emeritus Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — May 12, 2022

NATO and Ukraine: Reshaping NATO to Meet the Russian and Chinese Challenge

The Russian buildup on the border with Ukraine underscores the need for the United States and its NATO allies to take a far more serious look at how they are shaping the future defense of Europe, writes CSIS’s Emeritus Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — February 16, 2022

China: The Civil-Military Challenge: (Updated and Expanded) Volume One of a Graphic Net Assessment

China's integration of its civil and military capabilities will shape its competition with the United States and other states, writes CSIS’s Emeritus Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — January 4, 2022

China: The Growing Military Challenge: Volume Two of a Graphic Net Assessment

China focuses on key military developments to achieve its strategic goals without a major conflict and without the direct use of military force, writes CSIS’s Emeritus Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — November 22, 2021

Chinese Military Dynamics and Evolving Strategy: Graphic Net Assessment

The United States will compete with China in many different dimensions that are rapidly changing in many key areas of military force, economics, and politics, writes CSIS’s Emeritus Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — October 4, 2021

Updated Report: Chinese Strategy and Military Forces in 2021

The United States must respond to China's rapidly changing strategic presence and growing military capabilities, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — August 3, 2021

China and the United States: Cooperation, Competition, and/or Conflict

This CSIS report examines China’s economic and military development so far, and where it is likely to go, in order to provide a full strategic picture for future cooperation, competition, and/ conflict with China.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — October 1, 2019

China’s New 2019 Defense White Paper

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.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — July 24, 2019

China and the New Strategic Nuclear Arms Race

The U.S. now needs to fully reassess Chinese nuclear forces as the forces of a future peer competitor – both for military and arms control purposes.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 15, 2018

The Uncertain Trends in the “Wars” on Terrorism

The Burke Chair is issuing a new report on global trends in terrorism and the key problems in U.S. official reporting. It presents graphic summary and analysis of the new State Department report, and questions the reported drop in terrorism in 2017.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 26, 2018