Center for Asia Pacific Policy
The RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary research center within RAND. CAPP’s mission is to improve policy by providing decision-makers and the public with rigorous, objective, cutting-edge research on critical policy challenges facing Asia and U.S.-Asia relations.
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North Korea's leadership transition creates an opportunity for the nation to engage with its neighbors and the world. A report by researchers from the U.S., China, Russia, Japan and South Korea recommends policies to promote modernization, as well as a "tool kit" to enable North Koreans to create their own modernization plans.
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With his father's support over the last year, Kim Jong-Un has tried to rapidly reshape the North Korean leadership structure, giving him many new subordinates who are untried and lacking experience. Some will clearly make mistakes, writes Bruce Bennett. Read More »
To avoid direct military conflict with China, the United States should adopt a parallel strategy that strengthens the defense capabilities of China's neighbors while inviting China into cooperative security endeavors that benefit the interests of both nations.
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As India and China continue to grow in prominence, each nation has certain advantages, but neither one is primed to have clear across-the-board competitive advantages over the other. Read More »
CAPP Publications of Note
Non-Traditional Threats and Maritime Domain Awareness in the Tri-Border Area of southeast Asia — May 17, 2012
The tri-border area (TBA) between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia is a key hub of terrorist and related criminal activity in Southeast Asia, a well-known transit zone for weapons and explosives, and a principal logistical corridor for local and transnational terrorist groups. The authors analyze the security environment in the TBA, evaluate the Philippines' Coast Watch System, and examine the challenges the system must overcome.
U.S. War with China Not Likely but Steps Needed to Keep the Peace — Oct. 9, 2011
To avoid direct military conflict with China, the United States should adopt a parallel strategy that strengthens the defense capabilities of China's neighbors while inviting China into cooperative security endeavors that benefit the interests of both nations.
China May Have Technological, Economic Edge Over India in 2025, but Also Demographic Disadvantage — Aug. 11, 2011
As India and China continue to grow in prominence, each nation has certain advantages, but neither one is primed to have clear across-the-board competitive advantages over the other.
New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan's Security — Mar. 30, 2011
On November 7, 2009, the conference "Cross-Strait Relations: New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan's Security" brought together leading experts on political and military issues from both the United States and Taiwan to consider how a range of political, economic, and military factors are likely to shape Taiwan's security over the coming decade. The panelists' papers, included in these proceedings, represent a variety of views and…
Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry — Mar. 25, 2011
China's aerospace industry has advanced at an impressive rate over the past decade, partly due to the increasing participation of its aerospace industry in the global commercial aerospace market and the supply chains of the world's leading aerospace firms.
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