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Fighting With Numbers
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over...
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Apr 26, 20233 min read
Countering China: The New Norm in Defense Technology
On March 9, 2023, the Biden administration announced that it would request $842 billion for the 2024 Pentagon budget. If passed, this...
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Apr 22, 20234 min read
Rare Earth Rush
Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western...
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Jan 13, 20235 min read
Contractual Consent
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the...
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Jan 13, 20235 min read
Impacting Climate Policy: The Pandemic, Polarization, and You
You’re wearing your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sitting in your bedroom. You’re also on an important Zoom call and it’s 2 pm in the...
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Jan 7, 20234 min read
The Political Implications of China’s Zero-Covid Strategy
Until very recently, China was the only country in the world still holding fast to a zero-Covid strategy, an approach that focuses on...
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Dec 9, 20225 min read
Where is China Headed?: An Interview with Eunice Yoon
*This interview was conducted on June 21, 2022. Eunice Yoon is a correspondent and bureau chief with CNBC based in Beijing. She is most...
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Nov 14, 20225 min read
All Roads Lead to Beijing: The Sino-Angolan Trade Relationship and Unserious Accusations of Neocolon
In the last few decades, the government of the People’s Republic of China has sought to grow its influence in not only the Indo-China...
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Nov 14, 20225 min read
China’s Population Crisis May Be Its Achilles’ Heel
If you randomly select five people across the globe, statistically, one of them will be Chinese. According to the Seventh National Census...
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Nov 4, 20227 min read
Hand in Your Earrings and Pick Up Your Flag! Xi Jinping’s Marrying of Chinese Patriotism and Traditi
In 2019, some Chinese viewers relaxing at home may have been surprised upon turning on their televisions. The ears of some of the men on...
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Oct 31, 20224 min read
A Question of Vulnerability: Shanghai & China’s Other Favorite Children
Images of the 2022 Shanghai Lockdown sent ripples through the world. The lockdown — one which brutally dragged on for over two months —...
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Oct 20, 20224 min read
How Ratifying UNCLOS Can Help the US Counter China’s Aggressive Activities and Unlawful Maritime Cla
The US State Department recently concluded that the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) maritime claims in the South China Sea contravene...
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Apr 26, 20225 min read
To All The Blocs I’ve Loved Before: India’s Strategic ‘Love Triangle’ in the New World Order
On February 25, 2022, the UN Security Council convened a historic emergency session to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a...
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Apr 13, 20225 min read
The Foreign Service, Diplomacy, and the US-China Fight for Primacy: An Interview with Chas Freeman
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired career diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from...
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Mar 14, 202211 min read
Politics and Prosperity: An inquiry into Hong Kong’s future as Asia’s premiere economic hub
A series of intense pro-democracy protests took Hong Kong by storm in the latter half of 2019 following the introduction of an...
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Mar 14, 20224 min read
Off-target Alleviation: How poverty alleviation mandates harm the rituals of ethnic minorities in Ch
Located in southwest China, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture was recently named one of the most poverty-stricken regions in the country...
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Jan 30, 20225 min read
A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations
China-Taiwan relations are at their “worst in 40 years.” There are “confirmed US troops in Taiwan.” And 150 mainland aircrafts entered...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read
Using Vaccine Diplomacy to Address Supply Chain Woes
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during...
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Oct 30, 20215 min read
The World Through the Eyes of a National Security Reporter: An Interview with John Hudson
John Hudson is a national security reporter at The Washington Post, focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. He previously worked...
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Apr 30, 202111 min read
New Zealand as a Mediator in the Australian-China Trade War
New Zealand or “New Xi-Land”? That is the question raised by Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper in response to New Zealand’s ambiguous...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read
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