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“If Putin is successful in Ukraine, the lesson that Xi Jinping is likely to draw is that he too can be successful in Taiwan, or in the East China Sea or the South China Sea,” says NDS Commission Vice Chair Eric Edelman. tinyurl.com/4mmjdc2d

“Nuclear deterrence is the fundament on which everything else is built....It is not visible to American citizens,” but its availability “is the most powerful deterrent...to conflict,” says Vice Chair Eric Edelman. tinyurl.com/4mmjdc2d

This morning, National Defense Strategy Commission Chair Jane Harman and Vice Chair, CSBA’s Counselor Eric Edelman, presented the Commission’s conclusions and recommendations before Congress. Watch here: tinyurl.com/4mmjdc2d

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My colleagues and I are releasing a new CSBA report today, which draws on a recent exercise to provide insights into (and lessons for) the Pentagon’s 8% relook.

How should we think about the Pentagon’s 8% budget relook? Check out CSBA’s newest report: csbaonline.org/research/publi…

My CSBA colleague Toshi Yoshihara and I have a new article out in TWQ on the Chinese threat to Taiwan— why invasion might be less likely than people think and the other coercive tools Beijing might employ instead if it attempts to seize the island twq.elliott.gwu.edu

Re-upping our newest CSBA report on the Pentagon’s 8% relook: csbaonline.org/research/publi…

New piece from myself and Toshi Yoshihara that draws on our recent TWQ article.

On Lawfare Daily, Daniel Byman talked to Evan Braden Montgomery and Toshi Yoshihara, at CSBA, to discuss how China might use a blockade, subversion, and nuclear threats to intimidate Taiwan, the United States, and key regional states like Japan.