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Expanding Engagement Perspectives on the Africa-China Relationship

The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan

The Evolving Geopolitics of Economic Interdependence between the United States and China Reflections on a Deteriorating Great-Power Relationship

Middle-Power Alignment in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Securing Agency through Neo-Middle-Power Diplomacy

Japan’s Security Policy Evolution The Interaction between Think Tank Proposals and Government Implementation

Timothy Frye’s Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia

U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateralism

The Future of Trilateralism under the Biden-Yoon-Kishida Administrations

Heino Klinck, Evans J.R. Revere, and Clint Work discuss trilateral cooperation between the United States,...

Clint Work, Heino Klinck, and Evans J.R. Revere

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China's Africa Strategy

Political Front Lines: China’s Pursuit of Influence in Africa

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Energy Transition

Toward a Sustainable Energy Pathway for Bangladesh

Shafiqul Alam

Essay

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Taiwan

Strategic Clarity and the Future of U.S.-Taiwan Foreign Relations

Raymond Kuo

Threats to Taiwan’s Security from China’s Military Modernization

Paul Huang

The 2021 Defense White Paper and Japan’s Taiwan Policy

Yasuhiro Matsuda

In Defense of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait

Steven M. Goldstein

Trade and Innovation

China’s Strategic Approach to the Digital Revolution

Emily de La Bruyère, Nigel Cory, Samantha Hoffman, Greg Levesque, Doug Strub, Karen M. Sutter, and Matt Turpin

China’s Digital Ambitions

Guardians of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century

Steven Carnovale

India’s Vision for Indo-Pacific Trade

Saon Ray

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CHINA IN AFRICA

Studies have also shown that the CCP-ILD focuses on developing party-to-party relations in countries that are useful for China’s economic development, including South Africa (ores, iron, copper, diamonds, and nickel), Angola (oil), Congo (oil), Mozambique (timber), Sudan (oil) and after 2011 South Sudan (where 80% of the oil is concentrated), and Zambia (copper).

—Jean-Pierre Cabestan in “Political Front Lines: China’s Pursuit of Influence in Africa”

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Maritime Issues

South Korea, the Quad, and Maritime Security

The Australia-India-Indonesia Trilateral: Fostering Maritime Cooperation between Middle Powers

The Politics of Implementing the Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement in the Maritime Domain

A Race for Nuclear-Powered Submarines on the Korean Peninsula?

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