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NEW ESSAY! Payal Dey, Ph.D. examines India’s ambitious efforts to integrate renewable energy into its energy mix and explores the prospects for international grid integration to support the energy transition across Asia. https://bit.ly/4aSMyq3 #energymix #renewableenergy #energytransition #india

NBR nonresident fellow Joel Wuthnow (National Defense University) in Defense News: "My sense is that the SSF [Strategic Support Force] proved to be an unnecessary management layer that obscured Xi's visibility into what the PLA was doing in space, cyberspace and other information disciplines" https://lnkd.in/gH9N_WUx #strategicsupportforce #space, #cyberspace #XiJinping #PLA #chinesemilitary

Nadège Rolland, NBR distinguished fellow for China studies, describes China’s new Africa strategy as an integral and integrated part of Beijing’s grand strategy and the future global subsystem it aspires to dominate. https://bit.ly/3DvFWA8 #china #africa

Timothy Heath (RAND) on why Beijing has adopted such a cautious approach to the next few decades: "From Beijing’s perspective, its principal responsibility lies in preserving China’s modernization gains and avoiding disastrous missteps." https://bit.ly/47cdkqP #China #XiJinping

EUNJUNG LIM (Kongju National University 국립공주대학교 University) discusses the role of economic factors and communication issues in the crushing defeat for the ruling People Power Party in South Korea's general election and considers the implications for domestic politics. https://bit.ly/44cRrrt #SouthKorea #YoonSukyeol

"China’s reaction to the election will become clearer in the months leading to Lai’s inauguration in May, but it seems likely to be within the parameters of the pattern of pressure and intimidation Beijing has applied to the DPP administration since the party assumed leadership in 2016. Beijing’s toolbox includes threatening rhetoric, shows of military force, economic sanctions, persuasion of Taiwan’s few diplomatic allies to switch sides, and interference operations in Taiwan." | Robert Sutter (The George Washington University) #China #Taiwan #EconomicSanctions https://bit.ly/48rM1tT

How should China’s neighbors view its continued increase in defense spending given other tensions that exist on the economic and trade fronts? NBR's Nadège Rolland and William C McCahill Jr discuss this and more in this ASIA INSIGHT podcast: https://bit.ly/4ctkTxb #chinesemilitary #trade #economics #china #XiJinping #LiQiang

"These issues around data security, semiconductors, supply chains, AI are obviously more broadly felt. Addressing them will take a broader effort of small groups of like-minded countries working together." | Nigel Cory of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation https://lnkd.in/gUHbQnJn #datagovernance #AI #datasecurity #semiconductors #supplychains