Where Will Protests Lead Hong Kong?
The director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office says the city is experiencing its worst crisis since the colony returned to China from […] More
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Avoiding War in the Fifth Domain
Few today would argue that the threat surface in cyberspace has expanded significantly in the past decade. Just ask your fridge. From the new risks […] More
Are the U.S. and China Still Destined for War?
A lot has happened since China expert and Harvard Professor Graham Allison’s best-selling book on China, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides […] More
The Coming Chinese Storm – Part Two
In part two of ‘The Coming Chinese Storm’, former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence at the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, Mark Kelton, lays out the Chinese […] More
The Coming Chinese Storm
The Cipher Brief is engaging with dozens of Cipher Brief experts, government speakers and private industry executives this week on the national security challenges that […] More
Protecting Sovereignty of U.S. Telecommunications Backbone
Cipher Brief Expert and former Senior Director for Cyber Operations at the National Security Council, Thomas Donahue, provides critical perspective on the strategy needed to […] More
If the U.S. Doesn’t Get China Right, Nothing Else Will Matter
General Michael Hayden, the co-host of The Cipher Brief’s Annual Threat Conference for the past two years, has famously said that the world has been […] More
Britain’s Top Security Threats in 2019
2018 was a year dominated by a new range of worries for national security experts in Britain. Brexit and a series of untraditional statements from […] More
The Urgency of Resetting Relations With China
Bottom Line Up Front: The Trump Administration is confronting China on issues that have been developing for years and have percolated to the top of […] More
China on Track for Peer Military Status with U.S. by 2050
According to a recent report by the National Defense Strategy Commission (NDS), the U.S. Department of Defense and the White House “have not yet articulated […] More
Beijing’s Drive Towards Global Technological Supremacy
This brief is part of The Cipher Brief’s 2018 Annual Threat Report. Bottom Line: There are three prominent technological security concerns for the United States […] More
China’s Fourth Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence
China’s state news agency Xinhua, has shown the world just how far China has come in the artificial intelligence race with the introduction of a […] More
Cipher Brief Analysis: The Pakistan Problem
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan recently returned from China without the concrete funding assurances that he was seeking in order to keep his country from […] More
NATO’s Show of Strength on Russia’s Doorstep
As tensions heat up between Russia and the West, cold-war skills are back in play. Norway and Iceland are hosting more than 50,000 troops from […] More
Cyber Forecast Cloudy with a Chance of Persistent Authoritarianism
The world’s malicious cyber actors — Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea – have spoiled cyber’s original, idealistic vision and instead use cyberspace to advance […] More