TODAY (3:00–5:15 p.m.) | Please join NBR in Seattle for a discussion on U.S.-Japan cooperation in AI governance and quantum technology with remarks from Consul-General of Japan in Seattle Makoto Iyori and NBR President Michael Wills. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/us-japan-t... #SeattleEvents #SeattleTech

NBR nonresident fellow Kei Koga: "Whenever China hears statements about Taiwan from external actors in an unfavorable light...it responds quickly and assertively, regardless of the diplomatic signals those actors intend to send.” time.com/7334371/chin...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w... In an NBR commentary, James D. Kim considered the policy outcomes of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) with respect to South Koreans’ fears regarding U.S. nuclear deterrence on the Korean Peninsula. www.nbr.org/publication/...

At a Shared Symbol of Jihad, the Taliban Defy Their Old Ties With Pakistan www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

In a new brief for NBR, Nigel Cory outlines the key challenges to deeper U.S.-ASEAN collaboration, compares U.S. and Chinese engagement with #ASEAN on #AI, and proposes options for a new, more strategic AI agenda for the United States and ASEAN. www.nbr.org/publication/... #artificialintelligence

www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-c... "The PLA has pursued a range of advances, from #drone swarms to railguns, in its research, development, acquisitions, and experimentation." | Elsa B. Kania in NBR's book "Modernizing Deterrence: How China Coerces, Compels, and Deters" nbr.org/publication/...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Commentary by NBR advisor Tariq Karim traces the bridging role of #Bangladesh from historical Bengal through its development as an independent state since 1971. nbr.org/publication/...

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Hoang Thi Ha analyzes the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) through the conceptual lens of asymmetrical relationships to better understand the mechanisms and implications of #China's #Mekong strategy. strategicspace.nbr.org/chinas-state...

Inside U.S. Trade's World Trade Online interviewed Nigel Cory, author of the new NBR report “Understanding the impact of #KFTC enforcement on U.S. firms” for their story "Korean digital policies spark U.S. industry concern as trade talks continue": insidetrade.com/daily-news/k...

NBR's Doug Strub hosts a conversation on #KFTC enforcement activities targeting U.S. firms with guests Tami Overby and Nigel Cory. They discuss how ROK competition policies and digital regulations fit within the larger U.S.-ROK trade context and more! nbr.org/publication/...

"It is all about economic imbalance. If, for example, China suddenly lost significant export revenue would it have the tools to counter this by financially empowering its enormous domestic population?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening and tech companies are resorting to workarounds: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

U.S. Think Tank Criticizes KFTC's Targeting of American Firms www.chosun.com/english/worl... Read the NBR report "Understanding the Impact of KFTC Enforcement on U.S. Firms: Qualitative Evidence and Analysis" by Nigel Cory here: www.nbr.org/publication/...

REGISTER by Nov 24 to attend NBR's Dec 2–4 executive education course on China’s #PeoplesLiberationArmy (#PLA) in Washington, D.C. See the full list of sessions and instructors and apply here: nbr.org/event/the-pe... #China

REGISTER by Nov 24 to attend NBR's Dec 2–4 executive education course on China’s #PeoplesLiberationArmy ( #PLA ) in Washington, D.C. See the full list of sessions and instructors and apply here: nbr.org/event/the-pe... #China

Xi’s Military Purges Show Unease About China’s Nuclear Forces: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w... @nytimes.com

A new NBR report by Nigel Cory assesses the scope and impact of enforcement actions by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) against U.S. firms, drawing on a series of interviews with several U.S. firms that have been subject to multiple KFTC investigations. Read it here: nbr.org/publication/...

"From Tibet to Xinjiang, China has becoming increasingly sensitive to instability in its frontier regions. Now, its involvement in Myanmar...is shaping up to be among the clearest examples of its ambitions to consolidate power beyond its borders." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific rfi.my/CAM0.X via @RFI_En

"Xue has been accused of undiplomatic conduct in the past. His confrontational style has led some to label him one of China's 'Wolf Warrior' diplomats—a term used for officials known for aggressive rhetoric, based on a popular Chinese action movie franchise" www.newsweek.com/chinese-dipl...

REGISTRATION IS OPEN | NBR's three-day executive education course on China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will be held on December 2–4 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register! nbr.org/event/the-pe... #ChinaMilitary #PLA

"China's Railway Diplomacy Is Losing Steam in Asia" @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

ASIA POLICY ROUNDTABLE examines #Australia’s strategic priorities and challenges in a range of #internationalrelations areas and with its most important partners—the United States, China, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Island countries. nbr.org/publication/... #foreignpolicy

Using a dataset of over 200 #economic restrictions between 2010 and August 2025, this analysis of the important role #sanctions play in #China's borderland politics offers wider lessons on the role of sanctioning in China's foreign #economicpolicy globally: strategicspace.nbr.org/pressure-on-...

Michael Kugelman's @foreignpolicy.com article "How Russia Sanctions Could Affect India" cites an NBR commentary by Raymond E. Vickery Jr. and Tom Cutler: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/29/i... Read the NBR commentary "Oil for India" here: nbr.org/publication/... #Russia #India #oil #sanctions

SEATTLE EVENT: Please join us on Nov 18 (3:00–5:15 pm) for a discussion on U.S.-Japan cooperation in #AIgovernance and #quantumtechnology featuring panelists Kyoko Yoshinaga, Ulrike Schaede, and Hodan Omaar, moderated by NBR's Jonathon Marek: eventbrite.com/e/us-japan-t... #SeattleEvents

"Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is visiting China as the two countries deepen ties in the face of American trade barriers. [He] is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss economic and technological cooperation" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... via @ABCaustralia

SEATTLE EVENT: Please join us on Nov 18 (3:00–5:15 pm) for a discussion on U.S.-Japan cooperation in #AIgovernance and #quantumtechnology featuring panelists Kyoko Yoshinaga, Ulrike Schaede, and Hodan Omaar, moderated by NBR's Jonathon Marek www.eventbrite.com/e/us-japan-t... #SeattleEvents

NBR's Doug Strub hosts a discussion with Meredith Miller and Zoe Oysul on the United States’ and #Indonesia’s #criticalminerals strategies and the opportunities and challenges for the two countries to work together. www.nbr.org/publication/...

In a new commentary for NBR, Zoe Oysul argues that #Indonesia is too important and too large a producer to exclude from U.S. #criticalminerals policy, especially if Washington wants to level the global playing field in #copper and #nickel. nbr.org/publication/...

See an article by NBR advisor Arzan Tarapore in Foreign Policy: The Quad Is Dead, Long Live the Quad - In an increasingly dangerous era, the group’s old patterns of cooperation will not suffice. foreignpolicy.com/.../quad-ind...

DOWNLOAD FREE: A book review roundtable discusses the role #technologydiffusion plays in determining which states become great powers and implications for the current Fourth Industrial Revolution. nbr.org/publication/... #technology

REGISTRATION IS OPEN | NBR's three-day executive education course on China’s People’s Liberation Army (#PLA) will be held on December 2–4 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register! nbr.org/event/the-pe... #ChinaMilitary

As #BRI was supposed to accelerate #China’s opening-up to the world, Beijing also began to harden the security of its borders. Victor Konrad, Alessandro Rippa & @rollandnadege.bsky.social examine the tension between prioritizing openness & maintaining security: strategicspace.nbr.org/documenting-...

Japanese companies have, little by little, been cracking the door open to more defense exports. A new political coalition is now poised to give it a boost www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In her chapter from NBR's new PLA volume, Meia Nouwens challenges previous thinking on PLA assessments of #AI to craft a new framework for understanding the #PLA’s intentions to integrate the technology into its weapons and command systems www.nbr.org/publication/...

"Trump tells Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons" www.reuters.com/world/china/...

NBR nonresident fellow Kei Koga is quoted in Kyodo News: "He added that it was significant that Japan and ASEAN leaders reaffirmed their support for a 'free and open Indo-Pacific' and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific." english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...

NEW ISSUE OF ASIA POLICY! Content on Australia's strategic objectives in a changing regional order, U.S. leadership on data governance, China's ties in Latin America, South Korea's nuclear deterrence, and technological revolutions & great-power competition: www.nbr.org/publication/...

What is the CCP’s vision for the PLA as a world-class military, and how does it intend to use this force to attain other national goals? Read the intro to NBR's new book "The PLA's Long March toward a World-Class Military": www.nbr.org/publication/... #China #XiJinping #PLA

"Zambia’s government and economy, though, have grown reliant on China. Zambia collects about $2 billion a year in mining taxes, mostly from Chinese mining companies." www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

How important is it to make significant progress to set the #APEC agenda for next year and beyond, given that China will host in 2026? This is one of the questions posed by NBR president Michael Wills in a conversation with Robert Holleyman and Tami Overby nbr.org/publication/...

NEW BOOK! "The PLA's Long March toward a World-Class Military" examines #XiJinping ’s requirement for the #PLA to achieve "world-class" status by midcentury and the role it will play in supporting the #ChineseCommunistParty 's pursuit of national rejuvenation: nbr.org/publication/...

Asia Times references a roundtable from NBR's Asia Policy journal: asiatimes.com/2025/10/its-... See the Asia Policy roundtable here: nbr.org/publication/...

One of the smallest gatherings of the Communist Party elite in decades reflects Xi Jinping’s unrelenting purges www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"The move comes as refiners in India, the largest buyer of seaborne Russian oil, are set to sharply cut their crude imports from Moscow, to comply with the U.S. sanctions imposed over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine." www.reuters.com/business/ene...

"It was the second satellite in the series launched via the Long March 5, which can carry 14,000 kilograms of payload into GTO and is the only Chinese launcher able to carry satellites based on CASC’s DFH-5 platform." spacenews.com/china-expand... via @SpaceNews_Inc

"[S]enior executives at Indian refiners said the latest restrictions announced by Washington overnight, blacklisting Russia’s largest producers, would make it all but impossible for oil flows to continue." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Wall Street Journal: "Now an increasingly prominent actor alongside Russia and China, Pyongyang’s focus is on solidifying its nuclear status, shifting away from seeking global attention with a flurry of missile launches." www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...