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CSIS Korea Chair
🚨 TOMORROW: How should the US counter the CRINK axis | Thurs, June 11, 2PM ET
@csis.org @willtodman.bsky.social hosts @victordcha.bsky.social, Maria Snegovaya, Igor Khrestin & Joseph Kim on CRINK's vulnerabilities & US policy—a State of Play x Impossible State crossover.
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CSIS Korea Chair
📡 ICYMI: What does Xi want in Pyongyang?
After Xi's first DPRK trip in ~7 years, @csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social, @orianamastro.bsky.social & Edgard Kagan with host Mark Lippert unpacked China's leverage over Kim, the Moscow factor & what it means for US strategy.
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Previewing Xi Jinping’s Visit to North Korea | State of Play
@sydseiler.bsky.social of @csis.org breaks down this week's meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un.
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Xi Jinping's new visit to Pyongyang marks the first visit in seven years.
@csis.org Beyond Parallel database documents this and all other high-level China–DPRK visits since 1953, all 186 of them, across five Chinese leaders since Mao, and the three Kims.
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🚨 TOMORROW: How should the US counter the CRINK axis | Thurs, June 11, 2PM ET
@csis.org @willtodman.bsky.social hosts @victordcha.bsky.social, Maria Snegovaya, Igor Khrestin & Joseph Kim on CRINK's vulnerabilities & US policy—a State of Play x Impossible State crossover.
🎧 shorturl.at/m5jyJ
📡 ICYMI: What does Xi want in Pyongyang?
After Xi's first DPRK trip in ~7 years, @csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social, @orianamastro.bsky.social & Edgard Kagan with host Mark Lippert unpacked China's leverage over Kim, the Moscow factor & what it means for US strategy.
🎧 shorturl.at/nsdkf
Previewing Xi Jinping’s Visit to North Korea | State of Play
@sydseiler.bsky.social of @csis.org breaks down this week's meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un.
Read more @geopolitics.csis.org:
Strategic Clarity: Reassessing China's Value to Korea
@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social & @yesunkim.bsky.social write that as China-ROK ties continue to shift from complementary to competitive, Seoul should drop strategic ambiguity for strategic clarity.
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ICYMI: France 24's The Debate on North Korea, China, and Russia
@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social joined @france24.com's The Debate alongside Claudia Astarita, @jennytown.bsky.social, and Philippe Le Corre. Moderated by @francoisf24.bsky.social.
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Strategic Clarity: Reassessing China's Value to Korea
@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social & @yesunkim.bsky.social write that as China-ROK ties continue to shift from complementary to competitive, Seoul should drop strategic ambiguity for strategic clarity.
🔗@geopolitics.csis.org:
CSIS Korea Chair
At a macro level, President Xi is likely hoping to demonstrate a dynamic leading role on the international stage—particularly within the China, Russia, Iran, North Korea (CRINK) grouping of…
At a macro level, President Xi is likely hoping to demonstrate a dynamic leading role on the international stage—particularly within the China, Russia, Iran, North Korea (CRINK) grouping of…
As Xi visits North Korea, South Korea should reassess its China strategy, recognizing a shift from complementarity to competition and Beijing’s unhelpful role on North Korea, and pursue strategic…
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It takes convincing these days to get China's leader to go abroad. Xi Jinping has just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026. Why Pyongyang? It's hard to deduce from official…
As Xi visits North Korea, South Korea should reassess its China strategy, recognizing a shift from complementarity to competition and Beijing’s unhelpful role on North Korea, and pursue strategic…
