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The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

OPINION — The conflict in Iran is not solely the result of 47 years of unresolved tension. That framing misses a more consequential story: what is [...] More

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Beijing's Push to Protect State Secrets puts US Firms at Greater Risk

Kyle Sullivan is China Practice Lead at Martin + Crumpton Group, a global risk intelligence advisory firm based in Arlington, Va. He previously spent [...] More

China Focuses Espionage on U.S. Colleges and Universities

Bottom Line Up FrontChina has long engaged in a spying campaign against the United States—from cyber espionage and stealing intellectual property to [...] More

China’s Continued Abuse of Uighurs

Bottom Line Up FrontThe release of a trove of Chinese government documents offers close insight into a vast campaign of incarceration, intimidation, [...] More

Beijing’s Bots and Disinformation in Hong Kong

Bottom Line Up FrontChina has taken a page from Russia’s playbook as Beijing systematically wages an online disinformation campaign aimed at [...] More

Tensions Continue to Escalate Between the U.S. and China over Taiwan

Bottom Line Up Front: The U.S. Congress was recently notified about a potential arms sale between the U.S. and Taiwan, estimated at close to $2 [...] More

The EU’s Problematic Approach to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Bottom Line Up Front: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s principal foreign policy vehicle and may be the most significant geopolitical [...] More

How Economic & Political Tensions Impact the Sino-Pakistani Relationship

Bottom-Line Up FrontSino-Pakistani relations are deepening on all fronts, creating a new geopolitical reality on the Indian [...] More

Energy and Aid as Leverage in Venezuela

Bottom Line Up FrontThe U.S. has enacted sanctions against Venezuela’s national oil company as well as against embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s [...] More

Chinese Military Modernization and Implications for Taiwan

Bottom Line Up FrontEarlier this month, China released footage from a military exercise where the ‘Guam killer’ DF-26 ballistic missile was tested.In [...] More

Protests in Sudan: Is Change Finally on the Horizon?

Bottom Line Up FrontAfter two weeks of protests in Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir has ordered an ‘investigation’ to determine what led to the [...] More

Beijing's Drive Towards Global Technological Supremacy

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 [...] More