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China is increasingly a global power. Its overseas interests are vast and complex, spanning every region of the world. In many places, Beijing is leveraging new sources of strength to assert its ...

The Freeman Chair in China Studies is a leading source of insight and analysis on China’s evolving political system and the dynamics that impact its domestic policy agenda and external behavior. Our ...

Seth G. Jones is president of the Defense and Security Department and Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He focuses on defense strategy, military ...

The China Power Project is committed to providing interactive visualizations and expert analysis in order to facilitate informed discussions of the complexities, capabilities, and potential outcomes ...

Our Vision The world has entered a new era where grand strategy integrates human judgment with machine intelligence. As governments and policymakers increasingly rely on AI to analyze complex ...

As populations around the world grapple with water security challenges that threaten lives, livelihoods, and political stability, efforts to bolster prosperity and avert crises require high-quality ...

Conflict in Focus: Lessons from Russia-Ukraine The Conflict in Focus series examines the Russia-Ukraine War from multiple perspectives to identify implications for future warfare. Each week, a CSIS ...

The CSIS Geoeconomics Council brings together leading economists from a diverse array of large U.S. firms to provide an industry perspective on the issues impacting U.S. competitiveness, economic ...

William Reinsch is senior adviser and Scholl Chair emeritus with the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

CSIS Trilateral Nuclear Dialogues While the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea often meet bilaterally with one another, they rarely meet in a trilateral forum, officially or unofficially, ...

By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. By the same year, one in every three young people in the world will be African. This is often described as Africa’s youth boom. Africa will ...