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What Does India’s Hypersonic Missile Test Mean?

On November 16, India announced the test launch of its first long-range hypersonic missile. This missile makes India one of the few nuclear-armed countries to possess this technology, highlighting the intensifying global race for hypersonic technology.

Critical Questions by Diya Ashtakala — December 2, 2024

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Victor Cha

President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair
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Bonny Lin

Director, China Power Project and Senior Adviser
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Scott Kennedy

Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics
Nicholas Szechenyi

Nicholas Szechenyi

Vice President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
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William Alan Reinsch

Senior Adviser, Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business
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Matthew P. Funaiole

Vice President, iDeas Lab, Andreas C. Dracopoulos Chair in Innovation and Senior Fellow, China Power Project
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Gregory B. Poling

Director and Senior Fellow, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative
Erin L. Murphy

Erin L. Murphy

Deputy Director, Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and Senior Fellow, Emerging Asia Economics
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Kathleen McInnis

Director, Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department
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Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics
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Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Australia Chair
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Bhawna Prakash

Senior Fellow, Water and Sanitation, Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics
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Yuko Nakano

Associate Director, U.S.-Japan Strategic Leadership Program and Fellow, Japan Chair
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Lily McElwee

Deputy Director and Fellow, Freeman Chair in China Studies
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Harrison Prétat

Deputy Director and Fellow, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative
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Thibault Denamiel

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Brian Hart

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DPRK Aggression: Near-Term Concerns, Longer-Term Challenges

An audio version of “DPRK Aggression: Near-Term Concerns, Longer-Term Challenges,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Sydney Seiler. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Sydney Seiler — October 22, 2024

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Book Event - "On Xi Jinping" with Ambassador Kevin Rudd

The CSIS Freeman Chair and CSIS Australia Chair are pleased to be hosting former Australian Prime Minister and current Australian Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd for a discussion of his new book "On Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World" (Oxford University Press, September 2024). 

Event — October 21, 2024

The Future of U.S.-ROK Alliance | The Capital Cable #100

On the 100th episode of The Capital Cable, Mark Lippert and Victor Cha are joined by CSIS President and CEO John Hamre and former ROK Foreign Minister Park Jin to discuss the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance. 

Event — October 21, 2024

Energy Security and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance

The Philippines’ fragile energy outlook threatens to undermine allied efforts to secure its strategic autonomy vis-à-vis an assertive China.

Brief by Harrison Prétat, Yasir Atalan, Gregory B. Poling, and Benjamin Jensen — October 21, 2024

DPRK Aggression: Near-Term Concerns, Longer-Term Challenges

October is here, the U.S. presidential election is just around the corner, and tensions on the Korean Peninsula appear moving in the direction of the “October surprise.” What are some near-term concerns and longer-term challenges with North Korean aggression?

Commentary by Sydney Seiler — October 21, 2024

The 20th Anniversary of the North Korean Human Rights Act

The North Korean Human Rights Act passed twenty years ago in 2004 provided us with useful tools to address the deplorable human rights situation in North Korea by focusing our efforts to help both those who flee the regime and those who are trapped inside the country.

Commentary by Robert R. King — October 18, 2024

Employing “Non-Peaceful” Means Against Taiwan

China’s 2005 Anti-Secession Law (ASL) is an important piece of legislation that Beijing invokes to pressure Taiwan and justify the potential use of force against Taiwan. This report unpacks the ASL and analyzes how China uses it as an evolving tool of legal warfare.

Report by Bonny Lin and I-Chung Lai — October 15, 2024