China’s Use of Nontraditional Strategic Landpower in Asia
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About the Program
The Asia Program in Washington studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace, growth, and opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, including a focus on China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula.
Program experts
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies
Darshana M. Baruah
Nonresident Scholar, South Asia Program
Darcie Draudt-Véjares
Fellow, Asia Program
François Godement
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Robert Greene
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program and Technology and International Affairs Program
Sheena Greitens
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Charles Hooper
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Yukon Huang
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Isaac B. Kardon
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Kenji Kushida
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Sana Jaffrey
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Chung Min Lee
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Evan S. Medeiros
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Jennifer B. Murtazashvili
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Michael R. Nelson
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Trinh Nguyen
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Elina Noor
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Douglas H. Paal
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Program
George Perkovich
Japan Chair for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Vice President for Studies
Michael Pettis
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie China
Matt Sheehan
Fellow, Asia Program
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs
Temur Umarov
Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Milan Vaishnav
Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program
Gita Wirjawan
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Focus
Key Areas of Research
Focus
Key Areas of Research
China and the World
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
China and the World
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
Innovative Japan, Global Japan
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
Innovative Japan, Global Japan
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
Inside Korea
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
Inside Korea
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
Economic Risk in Asia
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
Economic Risk in Asia
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
Taiwan and the Future of the Strait
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
Taiwan and the Future of the Strait
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
All Work from Asia
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2276 Results
· April 19, 2024
· April 19, 2024
China's Use of Nontraditional Strategic Landpower in Asia
This article argues that the People’s Republic of China uses its police and internal security forces as a nontraditional means of projecting strategic Landpower in the Indo-Pacific and Central Asia.
Southeast Asia Cannot Be a Bystander Amid Escalating Global Crises
The larger question for third-party countries that heavily rely on Big Tech for their own digital transformation agendas is how to navigate partnerships with private companies as geopolitical tensions increase, especially if ideologies do not neatly align.
Darcie Draudt-Véjares on South Korea’s Post-Election Politics
Economics doomed the PPP’s legislative chances. What now for President Yoon Suk-yeol?
China’s Problem Is Excess Savings, Not Too Much Capacity
Policymakers on either side of bitter trade dispute seem to confuse two issues.
The Hollowing Out of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea
Despite North Korea’s presence on the world stage with its nuclear weapons, the Kim dynasty is slowly and irreversibly breaking down.
· April 29, 2024
Green New Wave: How China Adapts to Central Asia’s Renewable Energy Landscape
China has been investing in solar and wind energy projects in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, increasingly adapting its approach to the needs and regulations in each country.
- Yunis Sharifli
Yoon’s Next Three Long Years
In South Korea’s recent assembly election, the opposition won hands down—but President Yoon Suk-yeol’s battle is just beginning.
· April 15, 2024
Europe Needs a Systemic Response to China's Car Offensive
China is mounting an economic and technological challenge of unprecedented magnitude with its giant auto production and export boom, including for electric vehicles (EVs).
2024 Election to Watch: South Korea
Traditional political divisions no longer dictate election outcomes in this vibrant democracy.
· April 4, 2024
The Hollowing Out of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea
· April 29, 2024
Green New Wave: How China Adapts to Central Asia’s Renewable Energy Landscape
- Yunis Sharifli
Yoon’s Next Three Long Years
· April 15, 2024
2024 Election to Watch: South Korea
· April 4, 2024
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