Tag: RUSSIA

  • CRANK Call | December 2024

    CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). December 2024 Highlights Fall of Assad regime in Syria deals massive blow to Iranian and Russian interests President Bashar Assad of Syria fled to Russia and gave up power on December 8

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  • CRANK Call | November 2024

    CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). November 2024 Highlights North Korea and Russia finalize defense pact as offensive against Kursk looms North Korea and Russia completed the ratification of their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty in early November.  Alongside outlining a

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  • The Ukraine War: Perspectives from Northeast Asia

    Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has important connections to and implications for Northeast Asia. Russia has relied upon China as a supplier and a market, and on North Korea as a source of weapons and increasingly of soldiers. Conversely, the United States has turned to its allies in Northeast Asia, like its allies in Europe,

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  • CRANK Call | October 2024

    CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). October 2024 Highlights North Korean forces join Russian war with Ukraine North Korean military personnel have been moving into Russia since early October to intervene directly in support of Russia’s war with Ukraine. The

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  • CRANK Call | September 2024

    CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). September 2024 Highlights U.S. accuses China of aiding Russian war on Ukraine as new details emerge American officials have more directly accused China of supporting Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, in return for access

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