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An Engaging Look at U.S. – China Relations

BOOK REVIEW: Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost AmericaBy David Shambaugh / Oxford University PressReviewed by: Paul HeerThe Reviewer — [...] More

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The Underlying Message from Putin and Xi: War is Coming

The Underlying Message from Putin and Xi: War is Coming

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Some thirty years ago, when I was a CIA Chief of Station in the war-torn Balkans, a US Special Operations soldier with whom I [...] More
Warning Signs of a More Dangerous Global Conflict

Warning Signs of a More Dangerous Global Conflict

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — If President Joe Biden’s recent remarks in Poland and President Vladimir Putin’s in Moscow just a day later are any indication [...] More
What Emperor for Life Looks Like in China

What Emperor for Life Looks Like in China

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — There was something unnerving about the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It was orchestrated meticulously, [...] More
China's Post-Ukraine Playbook

China's Post-Ukraine Playbook

Cipher Brief Expert and retired CIA Senior Executive Mark Kelton took part in a Russia panel during the recent Cipher Brief Threat Conference, along [...] More

Xi's Paradox: Flexible, Ideological or Both?

OPINION — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent highly provocative trip to Taiwan has placed China, Taiwan, and America front and center at the most [...] More

Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Role in Ukraine

And China’s Dissemination of Russian DisinformationOPINION — On February 4th, President Xi Jinping signed a Joint Statement while in Beijing at the [...] More
How to Avoid Cold War with China

How to Avoid Cold War with China

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — A meeting – albeit virtual - between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping finally happened. It was a cordial and [...] More

How 'Xi Jinping Thought' Can Shape Diplomacy with the U.S.

How ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ Could Shape Diplomacy with the U.S.OPINION — As they prepare for this week’s virtual summit (their first formal meeting [...] More

Xi Jinping and the AUKUS Submarine Deal

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist with the U.S. Dept. of State and is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry [...] More

The Reckoning: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist (including 5 years at the U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation) with 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

China's Response to COVID-19 and what it teaches us about Xi Jinping

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist (including 5 years at the U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation) with the [...] More