The Asia Program in Washington studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace, growth, and opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, including a focus on China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula.
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies, Acting Director, Carnegie China
Darshana M. Baruah
Nonresident Scholar, South Asia Program
Darcie Draudt-Véjares
Fellow, Asia Program
François Godement
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Robert Greene
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program and Technology and International Affairs Program
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Charles Hooper
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Yukon Huang
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Isaac B. Kardon
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Kenji Kushida
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Sana Jaffrey
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Chung Min Lee
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Evan S. Medeiros
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Jennifer B. Murtazashvili
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Michael R. Nelson
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Trinh Nguyen
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
Elina Noor
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Douglas H. Paal
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Program
George Perkovich
Japan Chair for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Vice President for Studies
Michael Pettis
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie China
Matt Sheehan
Fellow, Asia Program
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs
Temur Umarov
Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Milan Vaishnav
Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program
Gita Wirjawan
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
We explore China’s power and growing capacity for action, its strategies and tactics around the world, and the challenges it faces at home.
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
Our work explores Japanese ideas and innovations that will transform technology, industry, the future of work, and defense and security.
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
We offer incisive analysis and recommendations on key aspects of policy around the Korean Peninsula.
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
We study disruptive risks: weak institutions, uneven state capacity, challenges to growth, regulatory diversity, and trade conflict.
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
Our work explores issues and challenges facing one of Asia's largest economies, as well as critical issues in cross-Strait relations.
Korean Power (K-Power)—a new comprehensive approach to tackling South Korea’s challenges through economic, technological, military, and cultural power—has been on the rise over the past 20 years, dominated by advanced manufacturing, high-tech exports, and increasingly sophisticated military power.
As Malaysia joins BRICS, a diverse and at times divided group, questions remain about what the country stands to gain—and what it risks.
Officials are right to be alarmed.
Thirty years ago, the idea that China could challenge the United States economically, globally, and militarily seemed unfathomable. Yet today, China is considered a great power. How did China manage to build power in an international system that was largely dominated by the United States? What factors determined the strategies Beijing pursued to achieve this feat?
China wants to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and although partnering with Iran, North Korea, and Russia helps Beijing in that effort, the trio can also undermine its aims.
Prabowo Subianto, long viewed as an authoritarian threat, inherits a democracy that is less accountable and less competitive than at any other time since the country's political transition.
A conversation about the October 14 Chinese military drill that deployed fighter jets and warships to encircle Taiwan, further agitating cross-strait tensions.
A discussion about U.S. policy toward Taiwan in light of talk that China might seek to compel the island’s reunification with the mainland.
An interview with Michael Pettis, a former investment banker turned music impresario who is quietly reshaping how Washington thinks about international trade.
The North Korea challenge represents some of the world’s biggest military, technological, and economic struggles today. Yet it receives very little attention from the candidates.
