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The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dr. Gedaliah Afterman, head of the Asia Policy Program at the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel, is the 270th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
How has the China-Iran 25-year agreement strategically changed bilateral relations?
The agreement has been described both as a new China-Iran strategic alliance and as an empty gesture. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. The signed agreement has not been made public to date, but a draft circulated by Tehran in 2020 allows some insight into its content. The current agreement, first discussed in 2016, appears to be a long-term roadmap rather than a groundbreaking strategic alliance. It maps out potential areas of cooperation, includi
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Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Lucas Kuo – senior analyst at C4ADS and co-author of “Black Gold: Exposing North Korea’s Oil Procurement Networks,” a collaborative publication between the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) in Washington, D.C. and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London – is the 269th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Briefly explain North Korea’s fuel-procurement strategy.
North Korea is completely dependent on foreign sources of fuel for its economy, military, and weapons program. The U.N. Security Council first imposed caps on North Korea’s fuel imports in 2017, but it has breached them every year since.
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Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard – executive director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations in the U.S. and distinguished professor at East China Normal University, School of Advanced International and Area Studies – is the 268th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Explain the impact of the 14th Five Year Plan (FYP) on China-U.S. cross-border investment trends.
In theory, the 14th FYP should produce increased bilateral FDI flows. China needs intellectual property (IP), advanced equipment, and markets to support its continuing effort to move up the value-added chain, boost its high-tech capabilities, and diversify markets, and FDI in the U.S. could help with this. China also will embrace FDI that improves it
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The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Sarah Cook – research director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House and author of “China’s Global Media Footprint: Democratic Responses to Expanding Authoritarian Influence” (National Endowment for Democracy 2021) – is the 267th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Explain the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in countering China’s global media footprint.
Non-governmental entities including journalists, civil society groups, think tanks, and technology firms are playing a crucial role in documenting and countering the coercive and covert aspects of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global media footprint, often with some effect. One key example has been the exposure and analysis of disinformation c
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Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dr. Sarah Kirchberger – non-resident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security; head of Asia-Pacific Strategy and Security at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK); and vice president of the German Maritime Institute (DMI) – is the 266th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Explain the impetus behind “
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Last year the Atlantic Council tasked Hans Binnendijk and me to work on a transatlantic China report to enhance cooperation among allies to meet the China challenge. We soon identified one key problem: There are perception gaps among allies regarding the nature of the challenge itself. China very skillfully shows different faces to different parts of the world, presenting itself to some a