Asia Project

Creating innovative policy solutions to current issues in Asia and the Middle East

The Asia Project focuses on creating innovative policy solutions to current issues in Asia and the Middle East, as well as the dissemination of information regarding human rights crises throughout the region.  Our work focuses on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and North Korea, and special emphasis is given to how the United States can disengage from Afghanistan in cooperation with the United Nations and neighboring countries. On India-Pakistan relations, the program examines the disruptive role of Pakistan-based Islamist groups. On North Korea, it discusses scenarios for denuclearization centering on a resumption of China’s regional role figure prominently in the program: its growing involvement in Pakistan at the expense of Indian interests, and its relations with Taiwan. Given the decline in tensions between China and Taiwan, the project seeks to block U.S. policy moves in Taiwan that could poison Sino-U.S. relations, especially the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft, and considers the proposal for phasing out the Taiwan Relations Act made by Vice-Admiral William Owens, former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.