U.S.-China Trade & Investment

Trends in Trade, Finance, and Investment

Thomas X. Hammes, Claire Reade, and Michael Beckley

Podcast

Chinese Investment

Competition and Cooperation in the South Pacific

Jesse Barker Gale

Brief

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Belt and Road Initiative

A Concise Guide to the Belt and Road Initiative

This backgrounder from NBR Senior Fellow Nadège Rolland, author of the book China’s Eurasian Century?...

Nadège Rolland

Backgrounder

Energy and Geopolitics

Navigating Opportunities for Cooperation on the Brahmaputra River

Nilanthi Samaranayake, Satu Limaye, and Joel Wuthnow

What Kashmir's Looming Water Crisis Means for India-Pakistan Relations

Christopher Snedden

Fluid Dynamics of the Indo-Pacific

Frank Jannuzi

The Emerging Russia-Asia Energy Nexus

Erica Downs, James Henderson, Mikkal E. Herberg, Shoichi Itoh, Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Morena Skalamera, and Can Soylu

U.S. Defense Strategy

China's Responses to a Changing Security Environment

Thomas G. Mahnken and Phillip C. Saunders

The Sino-Russian Partnership and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Elizabeth Wishnick

U.S. Defense Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

Jonathan W. Greenert and Dan Aum

Tenets of a Regional Defense Strategy

Jonathan W. Greenert

In This Issue

Chinese Thinking about International Relations From Theory to Practice

U.S.-China Military-to-Military Relations Policy Considerations in a Changing Environment

Indo-Pacific Visions Giving Solidarity a Chance

Optimizing the U.S.-China Military-to-Military Relationship

Netizen Opinion and China's Foreign Policy Interpreting Narratives about North Korea on Chinese Social Media

Oriana Skylar Mastro's The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime

Spotlight

NBR’s Maritime Awareness Project (MAP) combines interactive mapping technology with rigorous analyses from the world’s leading maritime experts to serve as the authoritative resource on maritime issues.

Maritime Issues

Interactive Map

Maritime Militias in the South China Sea

China and Russia in the Western Pacific: Implications for Japan and the United States

China-Russia Naval Cooperation in East Asia: Implications for Japan

Incident Timeline: South and East China Seas

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Chinese Language Fellowship Program

The Chinese Language Fellowship Program is a nationwide initiative designed to support American PhD students with a fellowship of up to $45,000 so that they can devote one year to intensive Chinese language training at an institution of the fellow’s choice, generally in China or Taiwan.

The fellowship award is designed to cover all tuition and other registration/visa fees related to the program, as well as to provide a generous stipend to cover basic living and travel costs.

Application deadline: January 20, 2020

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