Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie’s Ashley Townshend and Evan A. Feigenbaum will join Stacie Pettyjohn and William C. Greenwalt to discuss AUKUS developments and the challenges and opportunities of U.S.-Australia alliance reform.
Although China’s top diplomat Wang Yi sought to improve relations with the EU on his most recent trip to Europe, differences between the two powers remain stark. China has not condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing's recent twelve-point position paper on the war has been criticized by the EU and its member states.
Please join us to discuss this question with former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and Carnegie scholars Rose Gottemoeller, Ashley J. Tellis, George Perkovich, and Chris Chivvis. Our discussion will draw on background documents in Steve Hadley’s new book, Hand Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama, and the personal experience of Carnegie experts.
China and Russia have expressed concern that AUKUS, the US, the UK and Australian program to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, will weaken nuclear global nonproliferation policy. China on Tuesday accused the US, Britain and Australia of treading a "path of error and danger."
China’s brokering of the Iran-Saudi deal is emblematic of a regional realignment that no longer sees the United States as the only party in its calculations. It may be tough for the great power to accept and harder for it to readjust. But it may have no choice.
A closer look at the regional dimension of the yuan’s internationalization, however, provides a more complex picture. As a result of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia, the yuan has suddenly found itself on the way to becoming the dominant regional currency in northern Eurasia.
The closest historical analogy to the Crimean War of 2014–? is the Crimean War of 1853–1856, for several reasons. First is the central role of the Crimea, though in both cases, part of the hostilities took place far from that fateful peninsula. Second, both wars were lost by Russia.
Georgia’s European future is falling victim to the country’s domestic power struggle. The EU’s delay in granting Georgia candidate status could strengthen the pull of Russia and silence pro-reform actors.
For some analysis of the strategic implications of the AUKUS deal, Rachel Mealey spoke to James Acton - a nuclear expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Carnegie's James Acton speaks about AUKUS with Carole Walker on Times Radio.