Ministry of State Security

February 12, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic |

Whither the Silicon Shield: China’s Plans for Reunification and Supply Chain Risks

“The enemy gets a vote.” The strategic planning axiom might be a cliché, but it is a useful one. And it may be dangerously overlooked in assessing the utility of Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield,” the...

July 17, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The war in cyberspace

America’s top spy is warning you

September 5, 2023 | David Panuelo, Richard Clark

Former President of Federated States of Micronesia David W. Panuelo Warns Country Could See Democratic Backsliding

New, exclusive interview with former President of Federated States of Micronesia, David W. Panuelo.

December 5, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

China has a cyberspace campaign plan. Does Washington?

Ransomware payments are estimated to have cost U.S. companies more than $1 billion in 2021, according to the Treasury Department . But that staggering figure pales in comparison to the hundreds of billions...

July 13, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

What China’s rulers want

The FBI director understands; many business leaders do not

April 8, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

Virginia’s universities should not support China’s military

Following Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called for the commonwealth and local governments to cut ties with Russian entities. Youngkin’s entreaty was intended...

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.

November 12, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Warfare Is More Than Just Bullets

Understanding the “Three Warfares” concept China is already using against Taiwan—and the U.S.

July 29, 2021 | Dr. Georgianna Shea |

U.S. Leads International Efforts to Attribute China’s Microsoft Hack

In an unprecedented show of international coordination, the United States, European Union, and NATO last week attributed the recent hack of Microsoft’s Exchange Server and other “malicious cyber activity”...

July 22, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Xi’s Broken Promises on Cybersecurity

He vowed in 2015 that his government would not support cybercrime. He never intended to honor that commitment.

September 2, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

Protection from China’s Comprehensive National Power Requires Comprehensive National Defense

Those trying to describe China’s strategy often invoke the two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Art of War. But some more recent sources might be helpful as well – in particular documents looking at...

December 12, 2018 | Mathew Ha |

U.S. Continues to Pressure North Korea for its Human Rights Abuses

On Monday, the Treasury Department sanctioned three senior North Korean government officials for perpetrating human rights violations,...

December 17, 2013 | |

The Perils Of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

It’s been a landmark year for North Korea’s third-generation tyrant, Kim Jong Un, who inherited power two years ago with the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. Young Kim kicked off 201...