Unanswered Questions On Kim
Victor Cha and Katrin F. Katz | 2023.03.14
The stability and continuity of the North Korean leadership is the biggest “known unknown” when it comes to assessing the future of North Korea.
The stability and continuity of the North Korean leadership is the biggest “known unknown” when it comes to assessing the future of North Korea.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reinforced the necessity of maintaining a deep inventory of weapons. Any future operational plans assuming that a war will be short-lived may run against a capable and determined adversary willing to wage a prolonged conflict.
China seeks to fully control Taiwan through three distinct but interrelated campaigns: persuasion, coercion, and compellence.
American policy’s focus on compellence marginalizes strategies that counter China’s persuasion and coercion campaigns.
China is more likely to achieve its goals through persuasion and coercion or a form of compellence, such as a blockade of the island, short of an amphibious invasion.
The US must urgently rethink its defense of Taiwan so that it blocks all three roads to Chinese victory.
Participants discussed the process and value of sanctions implementation in Poland, international challenges and next steps.
The chip shortage in late 2020 drew widespread attention to the fact that the most advanced semiconductors are no longer manufactured in the United States, and that this represents a strategic vulnerability.
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