Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russia is a far smaller economy and China is a stronger partner, but the war has exacerbated this trend. Russia is fairly isolated from its ties with the West and it has to turn to China, which gives China an increasing amount of leverage.
"Surveillance State" paints a damning picture of the abuses that can occur when unchecked regimes, operating under impunity, draw upon vast technological resources to advance an agenda of repression.
North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly has adopted a new law on nuclear policy, updating a 2013 antecedent. While the law does not fundamentally upend North Korean nuclear strategy or doctrine, it expands the scenarios under which the country’s nuclear weapons may be released.
In this Marshall Paper, Ashley Tellis looks at the broad sweep of America’s grand strategy in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and argues that policymakers must remain committed to preserving U.S. hegemony in order to “shape evolving trends to its advantage.
The Chinese Communist Party is launching a new era of social control based on the power of digital surveillance. What is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?
Despite the trilateral hardening of positions, the Taiwan issue is too important to let slip out of control.
Imports from ASEAN are still up. Why is that the case? The reason being is that you have increased investment, not just EU, U.S., and North Koreans, but Chinese investors into Southeast Asia.
The Russians are getting symbolic value of having the Chinese run interference for them and trying to embrace some Russian talking points, but where it really matters, in terms of military direct support for Russia's war they are badly disappointed.
The development and eventual deployment of tactical nuclear weapons by North Korea will represent the most serious negative development for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula since the country’s development of intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of ranging the United States.
Many observers posit that a stark contest between democracy and autocracy will shape the governance of technology and data. But two Asian democracies, India and Korea, are carving out distinctive paths on data policy, not just following Western or Chinese models.