Publications

End Game in Central Asia

June 26, 2023 S. Frederick Starr AFPC Insights

Central Asians have no intention to roll back their ties with their large neighbors, but seek rather to balance them with ties with the West... America now has before it what may be the last, best chance to prevent the region from being dominated by autocratic outsiders.

China Reform Monitor No. 1554

June 26, 2023 Joshua Eisenman

German fighter pilots are training PLA pilots in China; 

U.S. sanctions Chinese firms over fentanyl-making equipment; 

Thousands of China Muslims defend their mosque; 

Chinese fighter jet buzzes U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft; 

Chinese warship nearly collides with U.S. with U.S. destroyer in Taiwan Strait 

A Roadmap for Taking on Tehran

June 23, 2023 Lawrence J. Haas Newsweek

With Washington resuming indirect talks with Tehran over its nuclear program, opponents of the 2015 nuclear deal in the United States and abroad are raising legitimate fears that Washington will provide the Islamic Republic with sanctions relief while getting little, if anything, in return. And who can blame them?