Ministry of State Security

Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests

Moscow and Beijing’s Playbook

Looking for an Edge in Trade Talks, Chinese Hackers Go Phishing Against Key House Committee

The chairman of the House China Select Committee and an outspoken critic of Beijing, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), appeared to be soliciting input about upcoming U.S.-China trade talks from Capitol Hill...

Microsoft Severs Chinese Access to Cybersecurity Vulnerability Information

It wasn’t the first time, but Microsoft would love to make it the last. After dozens of government agencies and corporations running SharePoint were recently compromised, the software goliath is cutting...

The Pentagon Has Given China Access to Its Systems for Over a Decade

The Defense Department (DoD) is letting Beijing into its most critical systems — not through a breach, but by design. On July 15, a ProPublica investigation revealed that the DoD has outsourced some...

New Report Shows How China Uses AI to Augment its Online Intelligence Operations

By Max Lesser Artificial intelligence (AI) empowers China to conduct operations that blur the line between collecting sensitive information and influencing public opinion, and a June 10 report by...

Assessing the Challenges Facing NATO

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Escalating Science and Tech Rivalry, State Department Announces Plans to Revoke Chinese Student Visas

Rising tensions between the United States and China can no longer be siloed from campus. On May 28, the State Department announced its intention to “work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively...

U.S. Indicts Chinese Nationals Involved in Hacking of National Security Infrastructure

Seeking an advantage over Washington, the Chinese Communist Party keeps cyber criminals on retainer. The United States last week announced punitive action against several suspected Chinese hackers accused...

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...

Biotech Battlefield

Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics

Laser Focus: Countering China’s LiDAR Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure and Military Systems

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The war in cyberspace

America’s top spy is warning you

Capital Markets with Chinese Characteristics

Xi’s Declaration of Lawfare

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.

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...

China’s Accelerating CEEW Campaign

What China’s rulers want

The FBI director understands; many business leaders do not

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...

‘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.

Warfare Is More Than Just Bullets

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