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The Race to Regulate
A large U.S. delegation will also travel to Bletchley Park this week, where the British government is hosting its AI Safety Summit. The UK’s decision to include China in the s...
By Jacob Stokes
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Analysis: Is the U.S. Strategy of Engaging China Working?
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said the administration's China policy had been a success. "The app...
By Jacob Stokes
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Xi protégés fall as Beijing focuses on security risks
The Chinese Communist Party's growing preoccupation with stamping out perceived national security threats at home could undermine China's reputation abroad for stable leadersh...
By Jacob Stokes
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CNAS Responds: Outbound Investment Executive Order
Today, the White House this week released an executive order (EO) detailing a ban on U.S. private-equity and venture-capital investments in some Chinese technology companies w...
By Emily Kilcrease, J Travis Mosier, Thomas Krueger, John Hughes, Jacob Stokes, Tim Fist, Hannah Kelley & Sam Howell
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Military bases and Biden quips complicate thaw of U.S.-China ties
The question now is if those guardrails are strong enough to withstand the pressures from these latest setbacks. “U.S. diplomatic efforts toward China are predicated on intens...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. senior officials caught off-guard by Biden's calling Xi a 'dictator'
For now, administration officials said they hope that this controversy passes quickly and that Beijing’s economic concerns don’t allow it to derail plans for visits from the U...
By Jacob Stokes
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Blinken China's trip likely to bring only temporary relief for tensions
Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security argued against taking too negative a view of the meetings, saying that simply by meeting Blinken, Xi si...
By Jacob Stokes
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Blinken meets with Xi amid mounting U.S.-China tensions
The roughly 35-minute meeting with Xi in the Great Hall of the People was seen as a critical sign to the trip’s success, though it wasn’t confirmed ahead of time. After Xi met...
By Jacob Stokes
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Why Blinken’s Big Trip to China Could Already Be Doomed
Despite the growing tensions, the Biden administration recognizes that it’s necessary to run the traps on diplomacy even when disagreements crop up, Jacob Stokes, a former nat...
By Jacob Stokes
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With Blinken trip, US and China seek stability but no breakthroughs
Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said that Blinken's trip showed a new stage in the US relationship with China -- trying to maintain st...
By Jacob Stokes
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Documents in Trump Indictment Were Among Nation’s Most Closely Guarded
“The pictures of classified materials strewn about insecure spaces evoke a visceral reaction for the thousands of current and former national security officials who, during th...
By Jacob Stokes
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‘Little Nato’: will Biden’s G7 unity push create an ‘economic iron curtain’?
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Programme, said the aim of Biden’s trip was to convey the message that the US was...
By Jacob Stokes
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China unlikely to play peacemaker role in Ukraine war, Western officials and experts say
China increasingly presents itself as a powerful state with global reach, but its approach to diplomacy remains cautious. There is no precedent for it plunging into a difficul...
By Jacob Stokes
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Joe Biden Says US Commitment to Defending Philippines Is ‘Iron Clad’
Jacob Stokes, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank, said the statement on Monday further clarified when the defence commitment would be triggered. “That’s an importan...
By Jacob Stokes
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US Flexes Muscles in Asia as Tensions Flare around Tsai Visit
At the same time, Washington has been using its military to do most of the talking, according to Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Cente...
By Jacob Stokes
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Analysis: China, Taiwan, US Share Interest in Avoiding Crisis over California Visit
A spokesperson for China's Washington embassy said that "no matter how packaged," the McCarthy meeting would be a serious violation of China’s sovereignty and "do great harm t...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Alarmed over Russia's Support of China Nuclear Buildup
The Biden administration has found that China is dramatically expanding its nuclear capabilities. In an annual report released last November, the Pentagon estimated that China...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden’s AUKUS Point Man to Exit
"What makes AUKUS so challenging is you have to coordinate with the defense industrial base, Pentagon, the armed services, the Hill, the State Department, and these countries ...
By Jacob Stokes
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US-China Downward Spiral Raises Fresh Fears of Eventual Conflict
The dueling narratives brought into sharp focus how the US and China increasingly have one thing in common: a growing distrust of the other side. Even worse, the escalating rh...
By Jacob Stokes
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After Brief Window, US-China Relationship Back On Rocky Path
The meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit came three months after China staged major military exercises in fury after Nancy Pelosi, then US House speaker, defiantly...
By Jacob Stokes