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Shadow Government: Beijing’s Welcome Gift to Biden: More Threats and Tensions

Patrick M. Cronin

Patrick M. Cronin is the chair for Asia-Pacific security at the Hudson Institute and a former USAID official in the George W. Bush administration.

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In a photo released by Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense on May 11, 2018, a Taiwanese Air Force fighter jet flies near a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force bomber that reportedly flew over the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan during an exercise.

Beijing’s Welcome Gift to Biden: More Threats and Tensions

Shadow Government

Robert A. Manning, Patrick M. Cronin

January 27, 2021, 1:03 PM

A Great Wall 236 submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the sea near Qingdao, China, on April 23, 2019.

Under Cover of Pandemic, China Steps Up Brinkmanship in South China Sea

Elephants in the Room

Robert A. Manning, Patrick M. Cronin

May 14, 2020, 11:44 AM

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, left, during the Inter-Korean summit in Panmunjom, North Korea, on April 27, 2018, and
U.S. President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the White House in Washington on Nov. 7, 2018. (Pool; Mandel Nagan/AFP/Getty Images) — North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, left, during the Inter-Korean summit in Panmunjom, North Korea, on April 27, 2018, and U.S. President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the White House in Washington on Nov. 7, 2018. (Pool; Mandel Nagan/AFP/Getty Images)

Give Peace With North Korea a Chance, but Remember Plan B

Elephants in the Room

Patrick M. Cronin

January 14, 2019, 1:34 PM

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the ASEAN summit in Singapore on Nov. 15. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)

Asia Needs Pence’s Reassurance

Elephants in the Room

Patrick M. Cronin

November 15, 2018, 11:45 AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, second from left, attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

Could North Korea Help Bring the United States and China Closer Together?

Elephants in the Room

Patrick M. Cronin

May 4, 2018, 4:13 PM

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