Global Times

April 29, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Reece Breaux

Chinese Coast Guard Forces Land on Sandy Cay, Escalating Tensions With the Philippines

China is stepping up its campaign to dominate key territory in the South China Sea. On April 24, the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party-owned media outlet, reported that the China Coast Guard (CCG)...

April 3, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Signaling Displeasure With Washington, China Conducts Military Exercises Around Taiwan

China’s psychological warfare on Taiwan is intensifying. Following its largest military exercises around Taiwan in three decades last December, Beijing has launched a new series of military drills. On...

March 4, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Craig Singleton, Johanna Yang, Jack Burnham

Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain

Unmanned Aircraft Systems

December 17, 2024 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States

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November 7, 2024 | Jack Burnham, Craig Singleton

China’s Careful Reaction to U.S. Election Masks Deepening Rift

China’s restrained response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory sharply contrasts with its months-long campaign to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process and sow societal discord....

May 16, 2024 | Craig Singleton |

Security Risk

The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

March 14, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Russia, China, and Iran deepen ties with naval drill

Russia, Iran, and China have conducted at least four naval drills in the past. However, this year’s are larger, and they come amidst rising tensions in the Red Sea and off the coast of Yemen.

March 23, 2023 | Emily de La Bruyère |

China’s Global Influence and Interference Activities

April 21, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

China’s COVID-19 Crisis Threatens to Derail Xi’s Ambitious Economic Agenda

The fallout from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s failed zero-COVID-19 policies threatens to undermine public trust in CCP governance in ways not seen since the Tiananmen era....

February 10, 2022 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Elemental Strategy

Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Efforts to Dominate the Rare Earth Industry

February 8, 2022 | Bradley Bowman, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Ryan Brobst, Zane Zovak

China, Russia, and Iran Hold Trilateral Naval Drill

China and Russia, America’s increasingly aligned great power adversaries, teamed up with Iran last month to hold a trilateral naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, which Tehran...

January 22, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘China’s Media Warfare seeks global totalitarian thought control’

India and other countries would do well to study how China employs Media Warfare to try to undermine Taiwan’s democratic institutions, fracture national unity, demoralize the public and military, and create social instability in pursuit of its goal of annexing this sovereign country.

December 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

November 5, 2021 | Annie Fixler, Louis Gilbertson

China Consolidates Rare Earth Supply Chain

Peng Huagang, secretary general of China’ State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, confirmed last month that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will “promote the restructuring of...

September 27, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

AUKUS: Good Goals, Bad Implementation

Now begins the real work for the United States and its democratic allies: cooperating to strengthen their eroding deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.

September 18, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

AUKUS is a big deal, for everyone

In India, the already entrenched and active French lobby in Delhi will likely use this to try drive a wedge between the US and India (something they already work on) in part to protect/promote their sales. The catastrophic US withdrawal from Afghanistan may also be used as an example of US ‘unreliability.’

August 18, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

President Biden had options

He chose the worst of them

May 27, 2021 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Defusing Military-Civil Fusion

The Need to Identify and Respond to Chinese Military Companies

December 16, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Chinese Communist Party’s Human Hack of Western Companies

There may be a frightening number of potential CCP loyalists in Western companies and consulates around the globe.

December 15, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Countering Beijing’s Fused Overseas Strategy