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US Proposes UN Meeting With 5 Other Nations for Comprehensive Afghan Peace NEW DELHI—U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has proposed a U.N.-led meeting with five other nations to support a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire in Afghanistan, in a letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The nations would include India, China, Russia, Iran, and Pakistan. Many of these nations are regional adversaries with competing stakes, and experts say that a positive outcome will be difficult to negotiate as, meanwhile, the security threat will only intensify. India will be included in the internat...

Editor’s note: Markus V. Garlauskas led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on North Korea as the national intelligence officer for North Korea from July 2014 to June 2020. The views expressed are the author’s and do not imply endorsement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Intelligence Community, or any other U.S. Government […]

North Korea’s politically-important Eighth Party Congress came to an official end on Jan. 12, and though some key details are missing from state media reports, Pyongyang still revealed enough information to draw some  conclusions important for the North Korea policy of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration. Based on what we know now, here are five […]

13 January 2021 Author: Carlyle Thayer, UNSW Canberra Key developments in the South China Sea in 2020 were shaped by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, international lawfare, and maritime security. COVID-19 impacted disputes in the South China Sea in two ways. First, there were no face-to-face meetings between ASEAN members and China via the Joint Working Group to Implement the Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (JWG–DOC). As the JWG–DOC has carriage over negotiations on the South China Sea, already difficult talks were further complicated and no progress made on t...

Countering Chinese disinformation reports China’s use of information manipulation in regional and global competition A powerful nation at the center of the world, China has not historically been known to venture outside its regional backyard. The tide is changing, however, as state-sponsored companies open ride-sharing businesses in Latin America, build infrastructure in Africa, and lay down global infrastructure for an international internet. While the government directly follows the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) political philosophy in dealing with both domestic and international affa...