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November 10, 2026 | Jacob Breach, Pavneet Kaur

8 Tactics Foreign Actors Used To Influence the 2026 Midterms

Influence operations linked to Russia, China, and Iran targeted America’s 2026 midterm elections. While goals differed, tactics overlapped: fabricated news reports, hijacked branding of trusted outlets...

November 10, 2026 | Craig Singleton

The Huang honey-trap scandal sends a message about chip-export controls

Democrats and Republicans disagree on nearly everything. They should work together to prevent China from winning the AI race.

November 5, 2026 | Mathew Ha, Annie Fixler

North Korean Cybercriminals Carry Out the Largest Crypto Hack in History

Today’s bank robbers carry out cryptocurrency heists, with the best in the business hailing from North Korea. The FBI formally blamed Pyongyang for a $6.3 billion hack of the Binance exchange at the...

November 5, 2026 | Bridget Toomey

How Russia and China Support the Houthis

The United States and its allies need a more coordinated anti-Houthi strategy to counter a Russo-Chinese threat to the region.

November 4, 2026 | Johanna Yang

DHS’s Ban on Chinese Biodata Firm Addresses Human Rights but not Bioweapon Threat

China has a major stake in the genetic data of millions of Americans. It is using that data to further the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitions of engineering a military super soldier or targeted bioweapon...

November 3, 2026 | Tzvi Kahn

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

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November 2, 2026 | Jennifer Richmond

Confucius Institutes still active in K-12 education

Beijing's soft-power playbook never left the classroom

November 2, 2026 | Craig Singleton

Trump Is Playing a Risky Game on Taiwan

Excerpt President Trump’s decision to hold back a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan makes a certain amount of diplomatic sense. After last year’s bruising trade war, Washington and Beijing...

October 28, 2026 | Catarina Buchatskiy, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Ukraine knows the secret to defending Taiwan

Kyiv’s use of unmanned boats shows how low-cost weapons can threaten a stronger navy.

October 26, 2026 | Keti Korkiya

A Ban on Georgia’s Opposition Would Complete Georgian Dream’s Capture of the State

Georgia’s ruling party is moving to take its most serious challengers off the ballot before the next parliamentary elections in 2028. On October 21, the Constitutional Court began hearings on Georgian...

October 23, 2026 | Craig Singleton, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jack Burnham, Emmerson Overell

Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Certain Foreign-Produced Military-Grade Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and UAS Critical Components for Non-U.S. Government, IncludingThose With Swarming Capabilities

October 22, 2026 | Susan Soh, Annie Fixler

U.S. Must Cut Off Chinese Firms That Profit From Stolen American AI

The evidence of Chinese intellectual property theft emerged in federal court, but the U.S. government turned to sanctions to punish the companies that received the illicit files. On October 19, the State...

October 21, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Navi Pillay: Nobel and Noxious

Crowned with the Nobel Peace Prize, the South African-born former UN High Commissioner is far from a consensus figure, given how selective her battles have been. Hard on Israel, but soft on China over the Uyghurs?

October 21, 2026 | Brandy Shufutinsky, Jennifer Richmond, Simone Weichselbaum

Foreign Funding and Influence in America’s K-12 Education System

October 17, 2026 | Josh Birenbaum, Cristina Vollmer Burelli

Terror groups are handing Venezuela’s critical minerals over to China

Excerpt The largest armed presence inside Venezuela today isn’t Venezuelan at all — it’s Colombia’s ELN and FARC militia dissidents, who control vast stretches of the border region in a brutal...

October 14, 2026 | Leah Siskind, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

The AI competition is a two-front war

We must win both

October 9, 2026 | Annie Fixler, Zoe Rice, Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Sophie McDowall, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Securing the United States Bulk-Power System

October 7, 2026 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Susan Soh

Europe’s Hardening Stance Against China Is Washington’s Opportunity

Europe is beginning to confront the economic costs of China’s market-distorting practices in earnest. On October 7, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to adopt a much tougher stance on China....

October 7, 2026 | Samuel Ben-Ur

The CCP’s War on Christian Faith Has Reached America

The Chinese Communist Party is persecuting Christians — in Texas. Zhang Mei spent more than three decades as a lay leader in house church networks in Henan province, China. With pressure against independent...

October 6, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Craig Singleton, Joe Dougherty

Findings of Taiwan-China War Game