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1/ In his excellent analysis, Tong ZHAO highlights a major strategic shift in China's Taiwan policy—from merely deterring independence to actively pursuing unification. This shift is shaping China’s foreign engagements far beyond the Taiwan Strait. 🧵 foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Ideological alignment among all three major powers..

Rightly or wrongly, it is indeed China’s thinking. When I was in Beijing in January, I was even told: “Your President will destroy the US from within before he tries to destroy China.” Tong ZHAO

China and the U.S. are sitting at a “strategic stalemate,” writes Tong ZHAO. As the two countries continue to test each other, that short-term stability could quickly flip to open conflict. Read Tong’s full article in Foreign Affairs: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Event: Has the World Arrived in a New Nuclear Age? With Russia threatening nuclear strikes, China and North Korea continuing to grow their arsenals, and new prospects for proliferation, are we in a new nuclear age? Ankit Panda discusses this question–the focus of his new book–with

APLN member Tong ZHAO, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment, wrote for Foreign Affairs and stressed that in order to avoid escalation, leaders in both #Beijing and #Washington must critically reassess their own strategic assumptions & internal decision-making.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary William Boothby & Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg 🆓 This book is Open Access ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978103… Printed volume ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… Peter Hayes Paul Ducheine @PaulDucheine.bsky.social CSDR Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare ISMLLW Lawfare

Most of Washington simply presumes American centrality in Asia. Here, I beg to differ, in part because I think the U.S. is long on security and short on everything else. Me in a longish segment on CNBC's #SquawkBoxAsia. cnbc.com/video/2025/05/…

Will China Escalate? Very good piece from ⁦Tong ZHAO⁩ reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/05/02/wil…

Does President Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” risk igniting a new arms race? To Russia, China, and North Korea – the three greatest nuclear threats to the U.S. – it does. 📰Tong ZHAO weighed in for The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/world/trumps-g…

This story is epic.

Why Donald Trump is serious when he calls for Iran to return to talks and cut a deal. Former Trump aides describe his deep aversion to regime change, a horror of power vacuums and an ultra-realist “club of leaders” worldview. My column, The Telegram. economist.com/international/…

We invited senior experts from the Asia-Pacific to discuss the Israel-Iran war and its impact on Iran’s nuclear programme and the upcoming NPT Review Conference in 2026. Read Tong ZHAO's analysis in the latest Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Pulse series.

Must be worth watching this analysis by Tong ZHAO

New Sinica Podcast featuring Tong Zhao (赵通) of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — a leading expert on China's nuclear doctrine and nuclear arsenal. Fascinating look at the reasons for the expansion of recent years. Links in thread.

In my latest for Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center’s Diwan, I examine how Iran is reassessing its national security policy and defense priorities after the Israel-Iran war and U.S. strikes on its nuclear program. 🧵

Many thanks to Tong Zhao of Carnegie Endowment for joining us this afternoon and sharing his extensive knowledge at a closed-door discussion on China's evolving nuclear doctrine, chaired by Yu Jie.