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The Global Shift To Authoritarianism 

OPINION — Based on my numerous assignments abroad, my work for the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey as his Special Assistant and [...] 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

What 1989 Tiananmen might tell us about 2020 Hong Kong

Cipher Brief Expert Martin Petersen is the former Deputy Executive Director of the CIA. At the time of Tiananmen, he was Deputy Director of the [...] More

The US Must Deal Swiftly with an Assertive China

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who served over two decades with the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of the [...] More
Xi's Awful Arithmetic

Xi's Awful Arithmetic

CIPHER BRIEF EXPERT VIEW — Mark Kelton is a retired senior Central Intelligence Agency executive who retired in 2015 with 34 years of experience in [...] More
The Future of Hong Kong

The Future of Hong Kong

A whirlwind of actions and statements regarding Hong Kong over the past week has increased tensions between the US and China. Even before Beijing [...] More
OSINT Global Trendline Report: Asia

OSINT Global Trendline Report: Asia

The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trend Line Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national [...] More

Are White Supremacists Trying to Expand Their Networks into Asia?

Bottom Line Up FrontJust this week, members of Ukrainian far-right groups were photographed attending protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese [...] More
The Cipher Brief's OSINT Trend Line Report

The Cipher Brief's OSINT Trend Line Report

The Cipher Brief’s NEW Open Source Collection Report (OSINT) uses open source data to track trends around the world that impact national and global [...] More

China Silences Critics of Draconian Tactics in Hong Kong and Xinjiang

Bottom Line Up FrontBeijing is hyper-sensitive to public criticism and does not hesitate to use its economic power for leverage in silencing [...] More

When Will China Move on Hong Kong?

China’s communist leadership is struggling over how to respond to Hong Kong’s swelling protests. Giving in to protesters’ demands for democracy or [...] 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

Pro-Democracy Protests Rock Hong Kong and Moscow

Bottom Line Up FrontIn Hong Kong and Moscow, long-simmering undercurrents of political opposition have pitted protesters against unrepresentative [...] More