Publications

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Featured

Documenting China’s Borderlands: An Introduction

Podcast | Jul 25, 2025

Diplomacy at the Periphery: How the PRC’s Border Provinces Shape Neighborhood Engagement

Essay | Aug 7, 2025

Books, Journals, and Reports

China in Africa

Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa

Rachel Bernstein, Yunnan Chen, Daria Impiombato, Mareike Ohlberg, Mandira Bagwandeen, Roukaya Kasenally, and Nadège Rolland

China's Emerging Africa Strategy

Nadège Rolland

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

(In)Roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy

APEC 2023

Energy Security and Trade in APEC

Mikkal E. Herberg

Carbon Neutrality in APEC by 2050

David Wogan

Critical Minerals Trade and the Green Energy Transition

Kristin Vekasi

APEC 2023: A Useful and Realistic Digital Agenda for the United States’ Host Year

Nigel Cory

Recent

Critical Minerals

Changing U.S. Critical Minerals Policy and What It Means for Indonesia

Zoe Oysul

Commentary | Oct 31, 2025

Critical Minerals

Indonesia's Strategy toward Critical Minerals and Cooperation with the United States

Han Phoumin

Commentary | Oct 31, 2025

Asia Policy

Jeffrey Ding’s Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

Daniel W. Drezner, Xinyue Wei, Etel Solingen, David C. Kang, Victor Seow, and Jeffrey Ding

Roundtable | Oct 29, 2025

Nuclear Deterrence

Rethinking South Korea’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy

Junhan Toh and Wooyun Jo

Article | Oct 29, 2025

Australia

Australia’s Strategic Objectives in a Changing Regional Order

Darren J. Lim, Jackson Skinner, Sashank Thapa, William T. Tow, Alynna M. Carlos, Matt McDonald, Brendan Taylor, Rory Medcalf, James Laurenceson, Susannah Patton, Joanne Wallis, and Salote Tagivakatini

Roundtable | Oct 29, 2025

China in Latin America

Port of Power: Peru’s Chancay Port and the Geopolitics of Infrastructure in the U.S.-China Rivalry

Madeline Craig-Scheckman

Essay | Oct 29, 2025

Emerging Technologies

China-Brazil Ties in Emerging Technologies Innovation, Opportunity, and the Challenge of Digital Sovereignty

Hugh Harsono