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Loyal Paraguay
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Aug. 26, 2025
Loyal Paraguay: The Peña Government’s Strategic Choice to Stay with Taiwan
From August 11-15, 2025, the author was in Asuncion, Paraguay, in an International Republican Institute (IRI) event hosted by that nation’s President Santiago Peña, bringing together government officials, diplomats, businesspersons, and civil
Inside China's Global Security Playbook
China Landpower Studies Center
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Aug. 13, 2025
A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under th...
Global outreach by China’s internal security agencies is expanding. This nonmilitary security diplomacy plays a crucial yet overlooked role in Chinese foreign security policy. Watch Now
Slide for "Election, Crisis, and US Opportunity"
South & Latin America
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Aug. 13, 2025
Election, Crisis, and U.S. Opportunity in Bolivia
Bolivia, strategically at the center of South America, faces a critical election that will define its direction in its current profound economic, political and security crisis, its future relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), its
Slide for More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Pacific Requires Context
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July 22, 2025
More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Paci...
As the US Army organizes, trains, and equips for an unforeseen future, service decisions should create or amplify relative operational advantages over the US military’s rising foe—the People’s Liberation Army. Discerning critical differences between
Slide for Planning for Protracted Conflict with China: Five Questions to Ask
China Landpower Studies Center
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June 26, 2025
Planning for Protracted Conflict With China: Five Questions to Ask
Where and how a conflict starts will affect the kind of war it will be.
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Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC
December 24, 2024
— Under the current Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa, major infrastructure, financial, and...
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Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas
December 17, 2024
— This work is derived from an address given by the author to the InterAmerican Institute for...
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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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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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Opidata #8: The BRICS Summit, China, and the Emerging Illiberal Counter-Order
November 14, 2024
— The 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan solidified an anti-liberal «counter-order,» challenging the rules-based international system. With its expansion to 23 members, the bloc, financially led by China, seeks to evade global restrictions and advance its agendas, though it faces coordination challenges and diverse objectives among its members. ...
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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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Chile’s Expanding Defense Relationship with China
October 18, 2024
— From September 9-14, 2024, Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez Allende, granddaughter of Chile’s...
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