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The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russian Opportunism and Intelligence Miscalculation

KREMLIN FILES/COLUMN: As Washington's attention continues to be diverted with an Iran unwilling to come to a comprehensive peace, a more dangerous [...] More

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Iran War Scorecard Looks Bad for America’s Strategic Interests

While the war has yet to conclude, we have enough information to create a preliminary net assessment of its effects on U.S. security and prosperity. [...] More

While the U.S. Focuses on Iran, Russia and China See Strategic Gain

Russia and China are certainly concerned about the desperate state of Iran’s regime, an invaluable transactional partner to both countries. Yet they [...] More

Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Narrative as an Instrument of National Power

Executive SummarySince President Xi Jinping's 2013 directive to "tell the story of China well" (讲好中国古事), the People's Republic of China has developed [...] More

America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...] More

China Holds Annual Two Sessions Political Meetings-NPC

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

It may seem early to be drawing lessons from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, but one of the world’s most powerful militaries has already reached [...] More

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens

In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “commands the gun”, and Chinese President Xi Jinping controls the one million members of the CCP. In [...] More

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

THE BLUF / COLUMN — The Department of Defense is on a tear to revamp technology for warfighters. Secretary Hegseth signed an AI strategy on 9 [...] More

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

For decades, the United States (U.S.) operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the global [...] More

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

DEEP DIVE — When the Biden administration rolled out its semiconductor export restrictions in October 2022, the logic seemed airtight: cut off [...] More

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its Global Impact

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – The United States is currently mired in a cycle of aggressive trade renegotiations and a transactional foreign policy that has [...] More

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions

The pace of U.S. national-security launches over the past several months has been staggering. But buried beneath the impressive cadence is an [...] More

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan

DEEP DIVE – President Xi Jinping’s latest purge of generals has eviscerated China’s military leadership, drawn comparisons to crackdowns carried out [...] More