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.
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies, Acting Director, Carnegie China
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 Chestnut 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
Oriana Skylar Mastro
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
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
The decision Americans must make about industrial policy is whether policies that drive the nature and direction of the U.S. economy should be designed at home or abroad by its trade partners. In a hyperglobalized world, trade and industrial policies in one country are transmitted through trade imbalances into their obverse among that country’s trade partners.
The inaugural July commemoration is an inflection point and an opportunity for the Yoon government to advance both domestic and foreign policy priorities.
At a time when the status quo no longer adequately reflects the desires of the global majority, it only makes sense for Malaysia to seek a more active role in different forums to secure its interests.
The Chinese ride-hailing app has acclimated remarkably well to local conditions, challenging simplistic narratives about the entry of Chinese companies into the region.
Undersea cables underpin global communication and the digital economy, with between 95-99% of data for international banking, e-commerce, video calls, and intelligence sharing travelling via these largely hidden transoceanic routes.
A dissection of the Chinese security apparatus: contrasting the People’s Liberation Army with the CCP’s internal police forces and paramilitaries, and an exploration on how China uses these nontraditional security forces—which often aid foreign governments in maintaining regime stability—as an alternative to U.S. security assistance packages.
A discussion China’s rapid rise, Beijing’s ambitions on the global stage and how the US will respond.
The United States and Malaysia have remained indispensable, long-term friends, but the world is a much-changed place. It’s time for the relationship to be re-examined against this reality.
So-called “gray zone” activities or tactics are recognizable and controversial elements of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) strategy in maritime East Asia.
The 2024 world faces globe-spanning conflict, political instability and polarization, and the threat of disinformation. Korea is not immune to these forces.
