International Telecommunication Union

November 12, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Here’s how Elise Stefanik can put Trump’s America First agenda to work at the UN

The screams you heard emanating from Turtle Bay earlier this week were foreign diplomats learning that President-elect Donald Trump would appoint Rep. Elise Stefanik to be his ambassador to the...

May 17, 2024 | Craig Singleton |

Remarks by Craig Singleton on Security at Home: Canada, the United States, and an Ascendant China

Craig Singleton: Good morning, Today, the U.S. and Canada stand at a critical juncture in our relations with China, particularly in the context of North American security. As we peel back...

May 31, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

How Congress Can Fix Biden’s Failed U.N. Strategy

Countries from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, over the past week for the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, but Taiwan was not among them. Pressure from Beijing thwarted requests...

October 30, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg, Tzvi Kahn, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy

Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian...

September 28, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Ivana Stradner

A Different Kind of Russian Threat – Seeking to Install Its Candidate Atop Telecommunications Standards Body

For the billions of digital devices that people the world over use each day, technical standards provide rules that ensure a device produced in one country can run software developed in a second country,...

March 4, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, John Hardie

Putin Is Making a Mockery of the United Nations

The Biden administration must finally recognize what engagement at the U.N. can and cannot do.

August 25, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

Quad Economy & Technology Task Force: A Time For Concerted Action

Executive Summary The Quad Economy and Technology Task Force was conceived in 2020 to study promising areas for increased cooperation between the Quad countries of Australia, India, Japan and the United...

August 13, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Natalie Thompson

What the U.S. Competition and Innovation Act Gets Right About Standards

International technical standards set the foundation for the billions of digital devices that people worldwide rely on. The standards ensure that mobile devices produced in China can connect to Swedish...

June 30, 2021 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

International Telecommunication Union

June 29, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden Needs an International Organizations Strategy

A U.S. State Department czar should lead a campaign to stop China and Russia from gaining control of multilateral agencies.

April 13, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Theo Lebryk

China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Internet Governance

China released its 14th Five-Year plan for economic development last month, including its intended next steps in technology. The blueprint makes clear that, even before the ink is dry on many 5G contracts...

April 7, 2021 | Morgan Lorraine Viña, Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

Biden Takes First Step in Countering China Through UN Elections

The departments of State and Commerce last week announced their support for the candidacy of Doreen Bogdan-Martin to be the next secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The...

April 5, 2021 | Trevor Logan, Theo Lebryk

America and its military need a blockchain strategy

For the first time, China’s five-year plan for social and economic development calls for the use of blockchain applications in supply chain management, e-governance and fintech, as well as related research...

February 24, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Can Biden Fix the U.N. Human Rights Council?

The administration insists it can succeed where two U.S. presidents already tried and failed.

September 18, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Checking China’s Diplomatic Piracy in the South China Sea

China appears keen to bring piracy back as an instrument of foreign policy, but the days of eye patches and wooden legs are long gone. Instead, Beijing’s most effective raiding parties prefer business...

September 17, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Trump can upend the status quo again by recognizing Taiwan in international organizations

The United Nations General Assembly, currently gathering virtually in New York, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.N. this year. The meeting comes amid an unprecedented global health emergency and...

August 13, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Keeping China’s Digital Trojan Horses at Bay

Imagine if the people of ancient Troy had received advanced warning that the giant horse outside their fortified walls was not a gift, but instead an elaborate ruse to enable Greek infiltration of the city. According...

July 21, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Another way UN corruption is empowering China

There’s a new cop on the corruption beat at the United Nations: the Chinese Communist Party. China this month quietly ascended to the U.N.’s top oversight panel in a move that should prompt the United...

June 2, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Trump’s New China Strategy Must Focus on International Organizations

The White House released the “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China” last month, outlining the Trump administration’s “National Security Strategy as it applies most...

May 13, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Sowing a new global garden

A U.S.-led “economic prosperity network” could be a good start