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Taiwan’s National Defense Ministry has started sharing more information about Chinese military activities as incursions across the median line of the Taiwan Strait hit a record high of 300 flights in August, according to publicly available data. Since 2020, Taiwan’s military has shared information about Chinese aircraft that fly into its air defense identification zone,…

More details shared with the public as flights into Taiwan’s airspace hit a record 300 in August

India and China are among several countries taking part in Russia’s weeklong joint military drills scheduled to get underway on Thursday in the east of the country, according to Russia’s state-owned news agency Tass. While India has previously taken part in multinational military drills in...

Despite a scaled-down version of the Vostok military exercises amid the Ukraine war, Russia is aiming to send a signal to the West that it isn't isolated and can still flex its military muscle. 

Please find below recordings of Crisis Group’s expert panels, events and presentations related to our field research and policy work. Most are video recordings but there are some audio versions too. We hope all are a podcast-like way to listen in to our public discussions and catch up with any of our events that you may have missed.

The United States and China have both accused each other of changing the status quo on Taiwan, leading to a standoff. They are both correct because each country has a different perspective on what th…

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this fall will determine China's political direction for the next five years.A key agenda item hinges on the answer to one question posed to members of the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), the most important policy-making group in China: What is your age? Implicit is that Xi…

Importantly, the future of large-value cross-border payments in Southeast Asia and the renminbi’s role depend in part on how Washington responds to efforts aimed at transforming local currency financial infrastructure in the region.

Unspoken rule ages out members of the Chinese Communist Party's most influential policy-making body at 68; experts say that helps the party leader eliminate opposition

He was a “lion,” a “leader with an iron fist,” and, to many, he was Singapore itself.