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3 weeks ago | 
cnas.org | Lisa Curtis |Jacob Stokes |Edward Fishman |Richard Fontaine
Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and co-author of No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy, joins the show to discuss Beijing-Moscow cooperation and the prospects of the U.S. driving a wedge between them. Listen to the full episode on School of War.
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1 month ago | 
cnas.org | Jacob Stokes |Edward Fishman |Lisa Curtis
In this episode, we get into what’s driving the Indo-Pacific’s security dynamics, from China’s threats to Taiwan to AUKUS and the Quad to stability (or lack thereof) on the Korean Peninsula to bases in the Philippines. We also touch on how prepared the United States may be to deliver military power in the Indo-Pacific based on forthcoming resourcing decisions by the Trump administration and Congress.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Jacob Stokes |Richard Fontaine |Lisa Curtis
President Trump should hold a Quad summit during his first 100 days in office to demonstrate the administration’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific region. Australia, India, Japan, and the United States form a critical block to meet new economic and security challenges, and a meeting sends a strong signal to China. The Quad has proved a resilient formation that has grown in importance through successive administrations.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Lisa Curtis |Jacob Stokes |Richard Fontaine
As soon as the signing ceremony is complete, Donald Trump will spring into action. His first act as president will be to sign an avalanche of executive orders. According to reports, Trump will sign as many as 200 executive actions on day one as the 47th US president. Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security weighs in.
Watch the full episode at WION.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Lisa Curtis |Jacob Stokes |Richard Fontaine
Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world. As he was in 2017, Trump has been harshly critical of his predecessor’s foreign policy and pledged major differences in priorities and style. His supporters cheer the return to an “America first” attitude, one that emphasizes toughness, seeks concrete benefits from any foreign engagements, and centers on hardheaded dealmaking.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Richard Fontaine |Akira Igata |Jacob Stokes
More than 11,000 troops from North Korea, with possibly many more to come, are fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Many commentators speculate that the situation worries China, North Korea’s nominal ally, because it could risk sullying Beijing’s reputation by association; entangle security on the Korean Peninsula—China’s doorstep—with a raging European war; and lead to North Korea conspiring with Russia behind China’s back.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Jacob Stokes |Joyu Wang |Austin Ramzy
China massed dozens of navy and coast guard vessels in what appears to be the largest maritime exercises targeting Taiwan and the broader Western Pacific since 1996, a potent warning to the incoming Trump administration of China’s increasingly aggressive stance in the region. China’s military didn’t announce the start of any drills. But Taiwanese authorities said Tuesday they were seeing “major elements of a military drill” over a vast expanse of air and sea near Taiwan. ...
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Jacob Stokes |Ken Moriyasu
Three U.S. aircraft carriers will be in Asia by next week after months of absence amid concerns of Chinese activity in the lead up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The USS George Washington, with a crew of 2,702, arrived on Friday in Yokosuka, Japan, home to the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, returning to the port for the first time in nine years. The USS Carl Vinson was deployed to the Pacific on Monday. ...
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Jacob Stokes |Shaun Tandon
Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security, said “peace through strength” can play out differently in theory and practice. Even if Mr Trump builds the military, Mr Stokes said, the US would lose a key advantage if he again questioned US allies in Europe and Asia. And cutting off military aid to Ukraine “might get you the peace part, but not necessarily the strength part,” Mr Stokes said.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Duyeon Kim |Jacob Stokes |Keerthi Martyn
Sri Lanka begins a new political era under the presidency of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected in September following an economic crisis in 2022 that brought down the previous government and sparked political uncertainty in the country for the last two years. There are several questions about Dissanayake and his National People’s Party (NPP), a leftist party that in the past has had strained relations with India and the West.
