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What Will an Indo-Pacific Supply Chain Resilience Initiative Mean for China?
RUSI Newsbrief, 25 September 2020
Jagannath Panda
The emergence of alternative global supply chains could hurt China’s economic influence. Beijing must dial down its ‘charm offensive’ economic policies to remain an attractive trade partner.
Tags: China, Japan, India, Global Security Issues, Pacific
Germany's New Policy Paper for the Indo-Pacific: Some Change in Tone, Little in Substance
Commentary, 11 September 2020
Andreas Fulda
Germany has unveiled its new policy paper for the Indo-Pacific region. It has yet to unveil a new foreign policy.
Tags: China, Germany, Pacific
Between Tragedy and Strategy in the Philippines
Commentary, 1 September 2020
Joshua Bernard B Espeña
The Philippines’ policy of avoiding any confrontation with China is not working. It is time for a rethink of the country’s posture and alliance with the US.
Tags: Pacific
""This boasting propaganda, which was of course aimed at the Chinese people although it’s conducted externally, enables them to say to the Chinese people, ‘Look at what we’re doing in the world; China is leading the fight,’” said Mr Parton, now senior associate fellow at RUSI, a think tank.
“This was, frankly, resented,” he said. "
The future of China: How Beijing has shown the rest of the world it will play by its own rules
In The News, 13 August 2020 Tags: China, Pacific
"A once-busy maritime coal smuggling route between North Korea and China has returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity, a joint investigation by NK Pro and the Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Project Sandstone can reveal this week. "
North Korean coal smuggling route to China rebounds to pre-COVID activity levels
In The News, 17 July 2020 Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, North Korea, Pacific
"The reunification remains a priority for Beijing, said Veerle Nouwens, a research fellow in the Asia-Pacific region at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank.
"China has continued to exercise at sea and in the air in the South China Sea and around Taiwan," Nouwens said. "This is not particularly new but takes place in a wider context of increasing Chinese assertiveness on its borders and in the surrounding region." "
Taiwan conducts major annual military exercise amid rising China tensions
In The News, 16 July 2020 Tags: China, International Security Studies, PacificPages
The UK and India in the Indo-Pacific
Commentary, 1 March 2019Aaditya Dave
Looking beyond the historical links between the UK and India, there are opportunities and reasons for the two to work together in the Indo-Pacific region.
Civil–Military Relations, International Security Studies, India, Global Strategy and Commitments, UK, Global Security Issues, Maritime Forces, Pacific
Sizing Up Sanctions in the Second Trump–Kim Jong-un Summit
Commentary, 26 February 2019Emil Dall
Can the US offer enough financial incentives to North Korea in exchange for denuclearisation, without discrediting the current sanctions regime? A way around the dilemma may exist. As President Donald Trump meets his North Korean counterpart, the role of sanctions in the negotiations warrant further discussion.
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Sanctions, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific
Charting Britain’s Moves in the South China Sea
Commentary, 6 February 2019John Hemmings
A British naval presence in the South China Sea strengthens global security and Britain’s global role. But it must be matched with a more systematic approach to the region, and to China’s defiance of legal norms.
China, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Maritime Forces, UK Defence, Pacific
US and China: Trade, Technology Theft and Arrests
Commentary, 18 January 2019Charlie Parton
A clear differentiation is required between trade and technology wars, Huawei and politicised arrests of foreign nationals. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deliberately confusing them, and President Trump is not helping.
China, Cyber, Law and Ethics, Technology, Pacific
Delicate Footwork: Security and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
Commentary, 17 December 2018Cristina Varriale
The suspension of US–South Korean military exercises is a vital step in the broader effort to build confidence on the Korean peninsula.
Armed Forces, Asia, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, United States, North Korea, Global Strategy and Commitments, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, PacificPages
President Trump's Nuclear Button Tweet
Multimedia, 3 January 2018 Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United States, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific
The New South Korean President
Multimedia, 12 May 2017On 9 May 2017, South Korea voters elected Moon Jae-in as president. RUSI research analyst Cristina Varriale assesses the policies of the new leader and what this means for relations with North Korea.
Tags: North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific
Jennifer Cole on the Use of VX Nerve Agent Against Kim Jong-Nam
Multimedia, 24 February 2017RUSI Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Cole examines the implications of the alleged use of VX Nerve agent against North Korean figure Kim Jong-Nam in Malaysia.
Tags: Terrorism and Conflict, North Korea, Resilience, Pacific
North Korea: On the Brink of War?
Multimedia, 4 April 2013RUSI Research Fellow Andrea Berger argues North Korea's recently belligerent statements against the United States will not necessarily lead to war.
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, North Korea, Global Security Issues, PacificPages
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‘Short of War’: No Peace in the South China Sea
RUSI Newsbrief, 1 April 2019Huong Le Thu
China’s ongoing construction efforts have created a situation where (in the words of the Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson) Beijing is ‘capable of controlling the...
China, RUSI Newsbrief, Global Security Issues, Pacific
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea: Lessons from a Successful Peace Process
RUSI Journal, 28 January 2019Anthony Regan
Can the success of the peace process in Bougainville offer useful lessons for similar situations?
RUSI Journal, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Pacific
A Long Road to Denuclearisation: Challenges to Security-Based Diplomacy with North Korea
Occasional Papers, 6 December 2018Cristina Varriale
This paper sets out the case for a gradual, step-by-step approach to remove North Korea's nuclear weapons.
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Occasional Papers, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific
Strategic Hedging in the Arabian Peninsula: The Politics of the Gulf-Asian Rapprochement
Whitehall Papers, 20 September 2018Jean-Loup Samaan
Offering a new perspective on the geopolitics of Gulf-Asian relations.
Whitehall Papers, Pacific, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa
The Reality of China’s Maritime Capability
RUSI Journal, 30 August 2018Martin N Murply and Peter Roberts
Beijing has rapidly modernised and expanded its capabilities as it challenges the West in China’s neighbourhood.
China, RUSI Journal, US Defence Policy, Defence Policy, Maritime Forces, PacificPages
Asia-Pacific Cyber Security
Events, 5 November 2015A lecture by Dr Tobias Feakin, Director of National Security Programs, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
Asia, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, International Security Studies, Pacific
The Future of Nuclear Navies: the UK and China
Events, 11 March 2015This event will bring together leading Chinese scholars and veteran British practitioners to consider the future of the UK and China's ballistic missile submarine forces and implications for...
China, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, UK, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Defence, Europe, PacificPages
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"“What is clear is that while China and Russia may be in lockstep against the U.S. right now, that closeness doesn’t play out in all other contexts" said Raffaello Pantucci, the director of international security studies at the London-based RUSI think tank."
Xi Jinping Has Embraced Vladimir Putin—for Now
In The News, 3 October 2019 Tags: China, International Security Studies, Pacific
"In February 1984, the deputy head of the Indian Consulate in Birmingham was grabbed as he got off the bus heading home with a cake for his daughter’s birthday. The next day, Kashmiri nationalists announced that they had kidnapped him and were demanding a ransom and the release of a Kashmiri leader in Indian custody. The Indian government refused and Mhatre was brutally murdered. Three decades later in 2005, the Kashmiri connection came to life once again when a group of British born young men blew themselves up on the London public transport system murdering 52 innocent commuters. Their journey to Al Qaeda training camps had started through Kashmiri oriented ones. "
India's actions in Kashmir could have bloody consequences in the UK
In The News, 5 August 2019 Tags: International Security Studies, Pakistan, Pacific
"Still, Lam chose the worst possible moment to try to rush the bill through and “badly mismanaged” the issue, wrote the former British diplomat Charles Parton, a senior associate fellow at the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute. Not only did it virtually coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown—traditionally marked by heightened emotions and a public vigil in Hong Kong—but it was equally risky to court potential unrest so close to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949. "
Ich Bin Ein Hong Konger
In The News, 16 July 2019 Tags: China, Pacific
"Russia and China have often competing, but occasionally overlapping political, economic and security interests in countries across the world. These interests can converge in places, such as the Arctic, or diverge, as in their growing competition on the arms market, and as they compete for global recognition as powerful political players. Central Asia is often overlooked as a theatre in which Russian and Chinese interests come together, and where the five republics are caught between the influences of these two large powers. "
The battle for hearts and minds in Central Asia: Russia vs. China
In The News, 26 June 2019 Tags: China, International Security Studies, Russia, Europe, Pacific
"Cathy Haenlein talks to BBC Newshour about saiko fishing in Ghana. [From 35:45]"
BBC Newshour 22/06/19
In The News, 22 June 2019 Tags: China, Terrorism and Conflict, Africa, Pacific
Poland’s Decisive Role in Cracking Enigma and Transforming the UK’s SIGINT Operations
Against the Clock: Can the EU’s New Strategy for Terrorist Content Removal Work?
Yemen: Engaging, Not Isolating