Evan A. Feigenbaum

Sep 1, 2024 | forbes.com | Evan A. Feigenbaum

To listen to American politicians, the world’s most dynamic region is either Washington’s or Beijing’s to win. And this straightforward binary—America’s Asia or China’s Asia—has shaped strategic thinking in the American political and strategic class for nearly a decade. Just take former President Barack Obama, who nicely encapsulated this view in a 2015 interviewwith The Wall Street Journal’s Washington editor Jerry Seib.

Aug 2, 2024 | forbes.com | Evan A. Feigenbaum

In mid-July, China concluded a pivotal economic strategy meeting, where it quadrupled down on technology as the lynchpin of its strategic and development plans. Beijing is now moving toward a four-pronged strategy that could challenge multinationals, bolster Chinese competitiveness, and better position Chinese firms to set engineering standards across a wide swath of emerging and frontier economies:1.

Feb 24, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Jung H. Pak |Evan A. Feigenbaum |Darcie Draudt-Véjares

With Russia using North Korean ballistic missiles on the battlefield in Ukraine, Kim Jong Un denouncing his father’s and grandfather’s stance on Korean unification, and borders beginning to reopen to the world after over three years of strict closure, North Korea appears poised for big changes in 2024. Has North Korea made a strategic shift? What’s responsible for the Kim regime’s new approach, and how can U.S. policy contend with a North Korea that’s emboldened to act more provocatively?

Apr 20, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Evan A. Feigenbaum |Daniel Runde

The developing world has changed significantly over the last several decades—it is richer, freer, and more empowered, and it has become the arena for a new age of great power competition. Today’s battles between Beijing, Washington, and Moscow are waged with soft power, through financial and political alliances across various regions of the world.

Mar 20, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Evan A. Feigenbaum

Fifteen years ago, as deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, I watched Beijing’s ambivalent response to Moscow’s dry run for its current war in Ukraine. When Moscow invaded Georgia in 2008 and detached two regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it attempted to rally support from China and Central Asian members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.