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Managing U.S.-China Tensions over the Global Economic Order

China Imposes Its Most Stringent Critical Minerals Export Restrictions Yet Amidst Escalating U.S.-China Tech War

Taiwan

Silicon Island: Assessing Taiwan’s Importance to U.S. Economic Growth and Security

Crossroads of Commerce: How the Taiwan Strait Propels the Global Economy

Defense and Military

China’s Intelligence Footprint in Cuba: New Evidence and Implications for U.S. Security

A Discussion on the Defense Department’s 2024 China Military Power Report

Tech Competition

Communications Networks Safety and Security

The True Impact of Allied Export Controls on the U.S. and Chinese Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Industries

Geopolitics

Responding to China’s Growing Influence in Ports of the Global South

How to Slay a Giant: Reviving the South China Sea Arbitration

Health

How Foes Can Defeat a Common Enemy: U.S.-China Collaboration to Combat Ebola

Smallpox Eradication: A Model for Global Cooperation

Hong Kong Isn’t Mainland China: Let’s Try to Keep It that Way

How China and Russia Facilitate North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses

Energy and Climate

Assessing the United States’ Solar Power Play

Not All Tariffs Are the Same: The Core Differences between U.S. and EU Tariffs against Chinese EVs

Interactive Analysis

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Skirting the Shores

China’s New High-Tech Research Ship Probes the Waters around Taiwan
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Dire Straits

China’s Push to Secure Its Energy Interests in the Middle East

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Strengthening Resilience in Taiwan

Taiwan has taken important steps to strengthen resilience over the last several years. However, the threat it faces is significant, and it falls short in many important dimensions of resilience.

Report by Daniel Byman, Seth G. Jones, and Jude Blanchette — December 11, 2024

The Trade Guys

More Nominees, New Export Controls, and the Future of USMCA

On this week's episode of the Trade Guys, we look at what we can learn from the full slate of economic cabinet nominees for the incoming administration. We also dive into new export controls from BIS, China's response to the controls, and how Trump's threats of tariffs on Canada and Mexico will play out.

Podcast Episode by Scott Miller, William Alan Reinsch, and H. Andrew Schwartz — December 9, 2024

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China’s Intelligence Footprint in Cuba: New Evidence and Implications for U.S. Security

China’s deepening ties with Cuba are opening doors for its military and intelligence services there. Satellite imagery and other open-source information offer an unprecedented look at facilities in Cuba likely to be supporting China’s efforts to spy on the United States.

Brief by Matthew P. Funaiole, Aidan Powers-Riggs, Brian Hart, Henry Ziemer, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Ryan C. Berg, and Christopher Hernandez-Roy — December 6, 2024

Soviet Lessons for China Watching

In this Marshall Paper, Ford Hart argues that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political institutions, the CCP’s behavior, and veneration of Marxism-Leninism in the CCP constitution highlight the Soviet model's deep influence on Beijing. 

Brief by Ford Hart — November 21, 2024