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What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation

China is about to run the largest influence operation in history. It will not have to run it. The world will download it.EXPERT PERSPECTIVE -- Our [...] More

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

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

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

Washington’s strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to replace human cognitive labor, assumes the United States is locked [...] More

As Taiwan Launches Military Drills, a Pressing Question for Washington

As Taiwan Launches Military Drills, a Pressing Question for Washington

TAIPEI, TAIWAN —Taiwan’s annual military exercise launching this week, will be its largest ever, mobilizing more than 22,000 reservists in response [...] More

The Biggest Winner in Ukraine is Beijing

The Biggest Winner in Ukraine is Beijing

Toby Esterhase: “You’re an old spy in a hurry, George. You used to say theywere the worst.” George Smiley: “Oh they are, Toby, they are.”EXPERT [...] More

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