Asia

China

Why China Would Struggle to Invade Taiwan
Although China’s ambition to gain control of Taiwan is clear, doing so through force would prove enormously difficult and costly.

Interactive by David Sacks Jun 12, 2024

Podcast
A U.S.-China Cold War, With Robin Niblett
Sir Robin Niblett, distinguished fellow at Chatham House, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss a potential second Cold War between the United States and China.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Robin Niblett, Markus Zakaria, Gabrielle Sierra, and Kenadee Mangus Jul 23, 2024

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U.S.-China Economic Relations
Jay Shambaugh discusses U.S.-China macroeconomic engagement and dialogue with Chinese leadership on overcapacity and economic imbalances.

Event with Jay C. Shambaugh Jul 10, 2024

Taiwan’s Trump Conundrum
Taiwan should not dismiss Donald Trump’s recent comments about the island.

Blog Post by David Sacks Jul 19, 2024

The China-Russia Relationship
China and Russia have expanded trade and defense ties over the past decade, but they’re not formal allies. Experts say Russia’s war in Ukraine could be a turning point in the relationship.

Backgrounder by Clara Fong and Lindsay Maizland Mar 20, 2024

  • China
    To Understand China’s Aggressive Foreign Policy, Look at Its Domestic Politics
    In the past six months, Chinese foreign policy appears to have taken a dramatic and aggressive turn. One way to understand this assertive foreign policy is through the lens of China's internal politics.
    Blog Post by Eliot Pence October 8, 2020 Asia Unbound
  • COVID-19
    Improving Pandemic Preparedness
    COVID-19 has confirmed the U.S. and global vulnerabilities that were repeatedly identified in high-level reports, commissions, and intelligence assessments on pandemic threats for nearly two decades prior to this pandemic. COVID-19 has underscored several truths about pandemics and revealed important shortcomings in current global and national capacities to prepare for, detect, and respond to them. This pandemic will not be the last one that the United States or the world faces. To better prepare for the next crisis, and future waves of the current one, the United States will need to devote considerable political capital and economic resources to reducing the domestic and global vulnerabilities that jeopardize individual, national, and global health security. In this first half of this report, the Task Force presents its major findings grouped into three sections: the inevitability of pandemics and the logic of preparedness; the global response to COVID-19, including the performance of WHO, multilateral forums, and the main international legal agreement governing pandemic disease; and the performance of the United States, also drawing lessons from other countries, including several whose outcomes contrast favorably with the U.S. experience.
    Task Force Report by Thomas J. Bollyky , Stewart M. Patrick, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Frances Fragos Townsend and Anya Schmemann October 8, 2020 Renewing America
  • Emerging Economies
    Reframing the Collective Action Problem in Sovereign Bond Restructuring
    A recent white paper from Lazard points out that emerging market sovereign bond holdings are often fairly concentrated among a handful of big players.  The main impediment to collective action may be less that bond holders are dispersed, and more that a handful of big holders all compete against each other and the benchmark.
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser October 7, 2020 Follow the Money