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Prevailing Over Health and Humanitarian Challenges
Celebrating 50 Years of FORUM Dr. Sebastian Kevany. Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies To provide more effective responses to 21st century challenges in the Indo-Pacific — such as those involving health, climate, economics, cyber and maritime security — defense departments and other government agencies have knocked down silos. Branches of government look to constantly innovate and aim…
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Debunking the CCP’s False Narratives
FORUM Staff The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) approach to cognitive warfare is probably the least studied component of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s strategy to dominate the international order, yet it may be the most critical. The CCP aims “to achieve what the People’s Liberation Army [PLA] refers to as mind dominance, which the PLA defines as the use of…
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Mounting a Biodefense
Dr. Deon Canyon and Dr. Benjamin Ryan Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Emergent infectious diseases are a constant threat to global health security. Southeast Asian countries are particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases due to their location, population density, rapid urbanization, increased development in wildlife areas and overwhelmed resources. In recent years, the Indo-Pacific has experienced outbreaks of…
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Alliances and Partnerships
Dr. Alfred Oehlers/Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS We often hear that alliances and partnerships are a vital asset. These relationships distinguish the United States from its competitors. They also confer decisive advantages, especially at crucial moments. As the U.S. faces future challenges, it likely will again turn to Allies and Partners for…
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Conflicts - Tensions
Countering China’s Cognitive Viruses
Maj. Ya-Chi Huang/Taiwan Army In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has conducted information operations and cognitive operations through “content farms” — websites and associated entities that churn out massive amounts of low-quality content for propaganda — to influence Taiwan’s people and provoke internal conflicts on the self-governed island, which the PRC claims must be unified with the…
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Nearly 2 million deaths followed PRC’s sudden end of COVID-19 curbs, study says
Reuters The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) abrupt move to dismantle its strict COVID-19 regime, which unleashed the virus on China’s 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a new study shows. The study by the United States-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center was taken from a sample of mortality data published…
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Li Wenliang reminds us: COVID truths, not censorship and deception
FORUM Staff The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is transitioning to a new era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since late 2022, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been dismantling the nation’s strict “zero-COVID” policies after unprecedented citizen protests across China. Although the lifting of lockdowns has wrought a sea change in daily life, the nation is experiencing surging cases, with…
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Chinese government can monitor citizens despite dropping COVID-19 app
Radio Free Asia The Chinese government still has vast amounts of data on its citizens’ movements, despite pausing an unpopular COVID-19 tracker app in the wake of nationwide protests, analysts told Radio Free Asia. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) in mid-December 2022 stopped using its “Health Code” smartphone app tracking citizens’ COVID-19 status as well as their movements in…
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Asymmetric Threats
Prescription for Success
Cooperation is pivotal to combating health threats
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Asymmetric Threats
Prospects and Possibilities
Dr. Ng Eng Hen/Singapore Ministry of Defence The last time I was speaking at the Putrajaya Forum was four years ago. It would not be an exaggeration to state that since we met four years ago, the world has changed, precipitated by not one, but two epochal events — COVID and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. These singular challenges…
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