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Critical Minerals

Advancing Resilient Critical Mineral Supply Chains in Indonesia

James Guild

China’s Influence in Indonesia’s Nickel Sector and Implications for the United States

Kevin Brunelli

Charting China’s Export Controls

Emma M. Rafaelof, Taylore Roth, Mykael SooTho, and John VerWey

People's Liberation Army

The PLA's Long March toward a World-Class Military

The PLA in a Complex Security Environment

China's Military Decision-making in Times of Crisis and Conflict

Modernizing Deterrence: How China Coerces, Compels, and Deters

China's Borderlands

China's Great Waiting Game in Afghanistan

Aaron Glasserman and Ramin Mansoori

All Railroads Lead to China: China’s Borderlands Strategy of Integration in Laos

Elizabeth Cherchia

Policing Beyond Borders: China’s Law-Enforcement Expansion in the Mekong Region

Simon Menet

AI Governance

The Road Ahead for AI in Vietnam

Nigel Cory

Japan’s Hybrid Approach to AI Governance: Balancing Soft Law and Hard Law

Kyoko Yoshinaga

China’s Approach to AI Development and Governance

Ren Xiao

The Case for U.S. Leadership on Global Data Governance

Nigel Cory and Akanksha Sinha

China's Economy

The Changing Character of U.S.-China Economic Relations: From Competition to Geopolitical Rivalry, 2018–23

N. Hugo Ekelund, Lina Fjellner, and Kjell Engelbrekt

China’s Economic Slowdown and Its Impact on Trading Partners

China’s View of Its Economic Sphere of Influence, Economic Security, and Trading Networks

Karen M. Sutter

The Future of China’s Economic Power

William J. Norris

Technology Cooperation

Codeveloping the Model: U.S. and ASEAN Cooperation in Shaping and Deploying AI

Nigel Cory

U.S.-ROK Tech Cooperation: Batteries, Biotech, and Quantum Technologies

U.S.-Japan Economic and Technology Security Cooperation

Daisuke Kawai, Crystal Pryor , and Kazuto Suzuki

U.S.-ROK Tech Cooperation: Export Controls, Data Policy, and Artificial Intelligence

Indo-Pacific Security

Meeting China's Nuclear and WMD Buildup

Encounters and Escalation in the Indo-Pacific

Meeting China's Emerging Capabilities

Nuclear Negotiations on the Korean Peninsula amid Great-Power Competition

John Delury

China's Strategic Space

All Railroads Lead to China: China’s Borderlands Strategy of Integration in Laos

Elizabeth Cherchia

Territorialization and the South China Sea

Rebecca Strating

Brief: Mapping China's Strategic Space

Nadège Rolland

Mapping China's Strategic Space

Nadège Rolland

Energy and Geopolitics

Powering Transitions

Nofri Yenita Dahlan and Nguyen Duc Tuyen

Restoring Energy Security amid Transitions in the Indo-Pacific

Kyung-Jin Boo, Fan Dai, Mikkal E. Herberg, and Victor Nian

The Revenge of Energy Security

Erica Downs, Vandana Hari, Meredith Miller, Jennifer F. Sklarew, and Rahul Tongia

Energy Security and Trade in APEC

Mikkal E. Herberg

Trade and Innovation

Foreign Direct Investment Meets Tariffs and Geopolitics

Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Ye Zhang

Asia and “Reciprocal Tariffs”

L. Alan Winters

The Rise of Plurilateral Trade Agreements and the Future of Trade in the Indo-Pacific

Saori N. Katada

The Immigration Advantage in the U.S.-China Strategic Contest for STEM Talent

Jeremy Neufeld

China in Africa

Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa

Rachel Bernstein, Yunnan Chen, Daria Impiombato, Mareike Ohlberg, Mandira Bagwandeen, Roukaya Kasenally, and Nadège Rolland

China's Emerging Africa Strategy

Nadège Rolland

Political Front Lines: China's Pursuit of Influence in Africa

(In)Roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy

IP Theft

Why Engagement with Indo-Pacific Judiciaries Matters

Peter N. Fowler

U.S.-China Intellectual Property Issues in a Post-Phase-One Era

Mark Cohen

Guardians of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century

Steven Carnovale

The Criminal Bias in U.S. Intellectual Property Diplomacy

Mark Cohen

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