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Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China | R. Evan Ellis
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 8, 2025
Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China
With Daniel Noboa returning to the presidency and a new Chinese ambassador on the way, China-Ecuador relations are at an inflection point.From April 22-25, I had the opportunity to travel to Quito, Ecuador, to address an international forum on China
China’s Coming Diplomatic Blitz in the Americas | R. Evan Ellis
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 8, 2025
China’s Coming Diplomatic Blitz in the Americas
The next few months will bring a series of high-profile multilateral engagements between China and Latin American countries, as Beijing seeks to capitalize on discontent with Trump.In the coming three months, China will have a number of opportunities
Transnational Organized Crime in Mexico and the Government’s Response | R. Evan Ellis
China Landpower Studies Center
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April 29, 2025
Transnational Organized Crime in Mexico and the Government’s Response
The US government threats of tariffs on the Mexican government if it did not do more to control illicit fentanyl flows into the United States have cast new attention on the growing problem of transnational organized crime that has wrought violence
Waging War without Disruption: China’s People’s Armed Police in a Future Conflict | Jake Rinaldi
China Landpower Studies Center
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April 24, 2025
Waging War without Disruption: China’s People’s Armed Police in a Future...
As one of the three branches of China’s armed forces, the People’s Armed Police (PAP) (人民武装警察) operates alongside the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) (人民解放军) and the militia (民兵) as a key instrument of Chinese Communist Party power. According to the
Russia's the enemy | Dr. John R. Deni
European Security
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April 21, 2025
Russia's the Enemy
The United States has never been directly involved in the war in Ukraine. U.S. troops weren’t sent there to fight for Ukraine against the Russian invaders, and both sides of our political spectrum seemed intent on keeping it that way. Russia remained
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Will Assad’s Defeat be Putin’s Waterloo?
December 10, 2024
— The narrative of Russia’s ascendancy in 2024 is beginning to look like more fiction than fact. The Assad regime in Syria has become a casualty of Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts in Ukraine, and its collapse is a strategic and operational blow that undermines the narrative of Russia as ascendant, Kyiv as doomed, and Vladimir Putin as strategic mastermind. ...
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China’s Next Step in Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: A New Reserve Service System
December 5, 2024
— The Chinese Communist Party’s massive active-duty army—the largest in the world—understates the manpower available to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) during a future protracted war. Despite the hundreds of thousands of combat troops garrisoned around the country, a prolonged war of attrition will require more than movement of forces from one side of the country to another...
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Pretexts for War and the Preinvasion Crisis in Ukraine
December 5, 2024
— The US strategy in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine appeared to undermine Russian efforts to justify the war. While studies of international crises typically focus on the goals of deterrence and escalation management, recent events in Ukraine show that counterjustification is another important objective. Russia used covert activities and deception to try and create a pretext for its invasion, and the United States aggressively countered these efforts...
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China’s Summit Diplomacy: Insights From BRICS, APEC and the G20
November 26, 2024
— From late October through mid-November, China’s President Xi Jinping held high-profile engagements in three very different major international forums: the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia; the APEC Leadership Forum in Lima, Peru; and the G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Beyond the dominant role of Xi and China in each summit, the three distinct performances by Xi also provide important...
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Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation
November 26, 2024
— While policy clashes between the elected governments of Mexico and the United States in the coming years appear likely, the degree to which those tensions degrade the commercial relationship and security cooperation that is vital to both will depend on the forbearance and statesmanship of leaders on each side...
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Parameters | Winter 2024–25
November 21, 2024
— Welcome to the Winter 2024–25 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Indo-Pacific, Security Cooperation, and Historical Studies), and the regular Civil-Military Relations Corner installment...
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Security Challenges in the Dutch Caribbean
November 12, 2024
— This work examines security challenges facing the Dutch Caribbean, including narcotrafficking and other forms of organized crime, money laundering, Venezuelan and other refugee flows, and the little-understood activities of criminal groups operating within the region’s Chinese minority communities. It also examines the successes and challenges in coordination between law enforcement and other government entities in the Dutch Caribbean, and between the Dutch Caribbean and the European Netherlands,...
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Strategic Implication of the Chinese-Operated Port of Chancay
November 7, 2024
— This article examines the Port of Chancay from a strategic perspective, with a focus on how COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) achieved unprecedented control over the operation of the new Peruvian megaport, the impact that the port is likely to have on the global logistics system, and its strategic implications in time of war with the United States. It argues that the project is illustrative of how the PRC...
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Venezuela: The Path Forward
November 6, 2024
— Thanks to the courageous work of the Venezuelan opposition, including obtaining physical and photographic evidence of over 80% of the individual “acts” from Venezuela’s more than 30,000 polling places, the world generally knows that Edmundo Gonzalez received far more votes than Nicholas Maduro in the country’s July 28, 2024, Presidential election. Nonetheless, he is unlikely to successfully take control of the state apparatus that controls Venezuela’s territory on Inauguration Day, January 10, 2025. ...
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Paraguay’s Security Challenges and the Government Response
October 28, 2024
— This article analyzes the security challenges in Paraguay and the government response under the...
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