Category: Brookings Institution

LIVE 2 PM ET: US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?—A Brookings Institution Event

May 1, 2023
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In a conversation held by Brookings Institution and German Marshall Fund at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 1,  the authors of the book “U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?,” Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Ryan Hass, Nonresident Senior Fellow Richard Bush, and German Marshall Fund Indo-Pacific Managing Director Bonnie Glaser will discuss the book…

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LIVE NOW: US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?—A Brookings Institution Event

May 1, 2023
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In a conversation held by Brookings Institution and German Marshall Fund at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 1,  the authors of the book “U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?,” Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Ryan Hass, Nonresident Senior Fellow Richard Bush, and German Marshall Fund Indo-Pacific Managing Director Bonnie Glaser will discuss the book…

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US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?—A Brookings Institution Event

May 1, 2023
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In a conversation held by Brookings Institution and German Marshall Fund at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 1,  the authors of the book “U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?,” Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Ryan Hass, Nonresident Senior Fellow Richard Bush, and German Marshall Fund Indo-Pacific Managing Director Bonnie Glaser will discuss the book…

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LIVE NOW: The Russia-Ukraine War: Year Two and Strategic Consequences—a Discussion Held by Brookings Institution

February 7, 2023
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been going on for about a year. Many wonder where the war is heading as it enters year two. Are the United States and Europe going to change their policies on the conflict—and how? How might the new U.S. Congress change Washington’s approach? And what are the consequences of…

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Ocean Geoengineering ‘Not Rocket Science’: Russ George

February 4, 2022
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In a Feb. 3 webinar with the conservative environmental group ConservAmerica, entrepreneur Russ George pitched the idea of using iron fertilization to spur plankton growth far from shore. George said the procedure removed carbon from the atmosphere while restoring fish populations—an approach he made famous in 2012 through the experimental release of iron sulfate into…

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US Coal Stockpiles Near Historic Lows

January 18, 2022
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector reached 93.7 million short tons as of December 2021—an increase since September when stockpiles hit a historic low not seen since the Carter administration. Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American…

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China’s Nuclear Expansion Increases Risk of Regional Conflict: Experts

November 19, 2021
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China’s ruling regime could be more willing to engage in international coercion and armed conflict in East Asia due to its efforts to reach nuclear parity with the United States, according to foreign affairs experts. This is because the United States and China are entering a state of “mutual nuclear vulnerability,” according to Caitlyn Talmadge,…

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Former Pentagon Official Calls for ‘Strategy of Denial’ Against China

November 6, 2021
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The United States ought to pursue a strategy of denial, mitigating China’s capacity to undermine U.S. interests by preventing it from taking undesirable actions, according to a former Department of Defense (DoD) official. “Denial is the standard of denying China’s ability to subordinate our willing allies, and that includes Taiwan,” said Elbridge Colby, founder of…

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