The New Africa Strategy: Countering Chinese Influence on the Continent
Bottom Line Up Front On December 13, 2018, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton detailed the Trump administration’s New Africa Strategy. The strategy seeks […] More
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2019: New Beginnings & Old Challenges
Bottom Line Up Front As 2019 begins, the U.S. and its allies will continue to deal with crises that started years ago and have […] 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
‘Bringing Down the Hammer’ on China Trade Negotiations
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is out on bail in Vancouver while she fights an extradition request to the United States. This, as President Donald Trump […] More
Uzbekistan’s Shifting Foreign Policy
Bottom Line Up Front Uzbekistan’s renewed domestic and foreign policies have largely been welcomed by the international community. The geopolitical landscape of Central Asia […] More
Trump and Xi Meet at G-20 Amidst Deteriorating China-U.S. Relations
Bottom Line Up Front On December 1, President Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina. The […] 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
Terrorism Trends in Central Asia
Bottom Line Up Front Despite being well-known for producing high numbers of foreign fighters, Central Asian countries, especially Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have been mostly […] 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
The Fate of Nuclear Treaties
Bottom Line Up Front The U.S. has announced it will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987. Washington’s departure […] More
Talking with Bill Evanina About Threats, Spies and Social Media
Bill Evanina is the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) – a part of the U.S. Intelligence Community that leads and supports […] More
China’s ‘Heavy Hand’ in Xinjiang
Bottom Line Up Front China just recently legalized ‘vocational training centers’ in Xinjiang province in the western part of the country, intended to engineer […] More
North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is touting his recent trip to Pyongyang as a success, saying that he was able to make ‘real progress’ toward […] More
Allies Resist U.S. Pressure on Iran
Bottom Line Up Front The United States is alienating its European allies by insisting that they comply with U.S. sanctions against Iran. Iran is attracting […] More