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NBR will convene the 2025 Pacific Security Forum in Seattle on October 28. Under the theme Sustaining and Strengthening U.S. National Power in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty, the forum will examine how changes in the global landscape are challenging the traditional foundations of U.S. national power.

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People's Liberation Army

The PLA in a Complex Security Environment: Preparing for High Winds and Choppy Waters

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Book

Illustration by Nate Christenson

India-Pakistan Conflict

The May 2025 India-Pakistan Conflict: Neither Quite the Same Nor Quite Another

Frédéric Grare

Commentary

South Korea

Safeguarding U.S. Companies from Unfair South Korean Competition Policies

Nigel Cory and Robert Holleyman

Policy Brief

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Asia Insight Podcasts

Strategic Outlooks for Taiwan amid a Complex Security Environment

Roy D. Kamphausen, Laura Rosenberger, and Michael Wills

An Analysis of China's White Paper on National Security in the New Era

Nadège Rolland and Bates Gill

U.S.-Japan Technology and Economic Security

Michael Beeman, Daisuke Kawai, and Doug Strub

Shaping the Digital Future: Tech Policy, Priorities, and Leadership during South Korea’s APEC Host Year

Robert Holleyman, Tami Overby, and Michael Wills

China's Health Silk Road

Under the Microscope: China’s Evolving Biotechnology Ecosystem

The Health Silk Road: A Branch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Nadège Rolland

IN THIS ISSUE

Cyber Resilience in the Indo-Pacific

The Rise of Plurilateral Trade Agreements and the Future of Trade in the Indo-Pacific

Convergence Fuels Divergence: How Emotions Lead to Intensified U.S.-China Confrontation

Discourse and Norms along China’s Digital Silk Road

China’s Internal Security Cooperation with Socialist States

Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis’s Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia’s Security

MAPPING CHINA’S STRATEGIC SPACE

Mapping China's Strategic Space

Territorialization and the South China Sea

How Chinese Strategists View, Understand, and Contend with Russia’s Strategic Space

China’s View of Its Economic Sphere of Influence, Economic Security, and Trading Networks

Cooperation, Coexistence, and Contestation in India’s and China’s Overlapping Strategic Spaces

Geography Matters, Time Collides: Mapping China’s Maritime Strategic Space under Xi

National Insecurity: Frontier Governance and Ethnic Policy in Contemporary China

Chinese Perspectives on the “Indo-Pacific” as a Geostrategic Construct

A Domain of Great Powers: The Strategic Role of Space in Achieving China’s Dream of National Rejuvenation

The Evolution of China’s Naval Strategy

China's Strategic Space in the Digital Undersea

Energy as a Strategic Space for China Words and Actions Point to a Competitive Future

China’s Geopolitical Code Shaping the Next World Order

The Polar Regions as New Strategic Frontiers for China

China’s Quest for Strategic Space in the Pacific Islands

The End of China’s Period of Strategic Opportunity Limited Opportunities, More Dangers

Central and Eastern Europe in Relation to China’s Strategic Space The Fizzling Out of a Ten-Year Campaign

Myanmar and China’s Fluid Frontier

Expert Spotlight

Nadège Rolland

Distinguished Fellow, China Studies

Under the Microscope: China’s Evolving Biotechnology Ecosystem

The Health Silk Road: A Branch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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.