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China Could Win AI Fight
In August, Chinese researchers debuted the world’s largest brain-inspired supercomputer. The Darwin Monkey is just the latest in a string of People’s Republic of China (PRC) artificial intelligence...
Op-eds
Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security
Legislative Testimonies
Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023
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Remarks
Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations
Memos
The Dangers of Iran’s Cyber Ambitions
Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Made in Germany, Co-opted by China
Monographs
Hackers Threaten Our Water Supply
Iran has been accused of conducting a cyber campaign targeting Israeli water and sewage facilities in recent months. Reports started circulating after the Israeli Water Authority ordered all personnel...
Op-eds
Evolving Menace
Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Monographs
Turkey Abused Western Dual-Use Technology to Inject Spyware
Turkey’s leading internet service provider, Turk Telekom, in which the Turkish government...
Policy Briefs
Analysis: The Mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘Nein,’ BDS ‘Ja’
Each year on November 9, Berlin remembers the lethal anti-Semitic pogroms carried out by Germans against Jews and synagogues in 1938 – the so-called Kristallnacht anniversary. The comm...
Op-eds
Slam Dunk II: The Persian Version
“With this deal, we cut off ...
Op-eds
Analysis: Iran’s Human Rights Failure
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s human rights record remained atrocious under the so-called moderate President Hassan Rouhani, according to a newly released Human Rights Watch report on Wedne...
Op-eds
Jihadist Blowback?
On May 24, a deadly shooting occurred at the Brussels Jewish Museum that left four dead: an Israeli couple, a French volunteer worker, and a Belgian museum employee. A few days later, as the susp...
Op-eds
The Disinformation Age
Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...
Op-eds
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...
Op-eds
The Rise of Germany’s Tea Party
Could a brand-new, anti-euro political movement threaten Merkel's quest for a third term?
Op-eds
Al Nusrah Front Commanded Free Syrian Army Unit, ‘Chechen Emigrants,’ in Assault on Syrian Base
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, commanded a Free Syrian Army unit and "Chechen emigran...
Op-eds
Letter from Ireland
The Troubles ended in a “peace of sorts,” but it’s no model for the Middle East.