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Trade in Critical Supply Chains

The Hidden Risk of Rising U.S.-PRC Tensions: Export Control Symbiosis

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PRC Influence and the Status of Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies in the Western Hemisphere

Strengthening Resilience in Taiwan

Defense and Military

At the Doorstep: A Snapshot of New Activity at Cuban Spy Sites

Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire

Tech Competition

The Limits of Chip Export Controls in Meeting the China Challenge

Rebuilding U.S. Zinc Capacity in an Era of Global Competition

What Can the United States Do to Counter Growing Chinese and Russian Influence in Antarctica?

China’s Power Play Across the Pacific

Health

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

Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”

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

U.S.-China Trade War and the Future of U.S. LNG

Assessing the United States’ Solar Power Play

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

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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

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

In this collection of brief notes from the U.S.-China Global Economic Order (GEO) Dialogue, participants offer tentative solutions to difficult problems in economic competition, economic security, finance, and decarbonization and development.

Report by Scott Kennedy — November 20, 2024

Wins and Losses: Chinese Industrial Policy’s Uneven Success

Ilaria Mazzocco and Ryan Featherston explain the development of industrial policy in China and summarize academic research that clarifies where industrial policy succeeded and where it failed. The report considers the implications for the United States and others.

Commentary by Ilaria Mazzocco and Ryan Featherston — November 19, 2024

Countering China and Russia: The Hidden Advantages of Women, Peace, and Security

Gender perspectives can be better utilized to identify means to more effectively collaborate with partner nations and strengthen U.S. deterrence. This brief argues that the Women, Peace, and Security tool kit should be utilized as a strategic enabler for DoD activities.

Brief by Kathleen McInnis, Benjamin Jensen, Audrey Aldisert, and Alexis Day — November 14, 2024

Retooling U.S. Trade to Meet the China Challenge: GSP Matters

The four-year lapse of the General Systems of Preference program, a cornerstone of U.S. trade policy, has allowed China to grow its political and economic influence in the Global South. Congressional reauthorization is crucial to combat China’s development offensive.

Commentary by Daniel F. Runde, Thomas Bryja, and Meredith Broadbent — November 4, 2024

Engaging China on Space with Eyes Wide Open

The next administration should find a way to engage China in a constructive, two-way dialogue on the responsible, peaceful, and safe use of space while investing in the means to protect U.S. interests and maintain the United States’ historic leadership in space.

Commentary by Audrey Schaffer and Kari A. Bingen — October 31, 2024

The Trade Guys

USMCA Renewal, Nobel Prize in Economics, and the Return of the Pandas

On this week's episode of the Trade Guys, we preview the upcoming 2026 renewal of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), dig into the Nobel-winning work on the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity, and discuss the return of pandas from China to the National Zoo.

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz, Scott Miller, and William Alan Reinsch — October 21, 2024

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Pekingology

The Idea of China

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the Henry A Kissinger chair in foreign policy and international relations at the US Library of Congress, Washington DC. They discuss his recently co-authored book The Idea of China: Chinese Thinkers on Power, Progress, and People. (European Council on Foreign Relations, 2024)

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — October 17, 2024

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The Truth of the Matter

The Peril of American Neglect in the Pacific

Charles Edel, CSIS Senior Adviser and Australia Chair, and Kathryn Paik, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Australia Chair, join the podcast to discuss their new Foreign Affairs article on how China is dominating foreign policy in the Pacific.

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz, Kathryn Paik, and Charles Edel — October 15, 2024

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