United States Congress

December 11, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Trojan Horse

China's Auto Threat to America

December 11, 2025 | Jennifer Richmond |

Fight To Keep China Out of U.S. K-12 Classrooms Comes to Congress

American children in grades K-12 are influenced by many things, including their parents, peers, and various forms of media. China, Qatar, and Iran don’t belong on the list, and three recent bills moving...

December 9, 2025 | |

Congress Unveils Proposal To Repeal Syria Sanctions as Syria-Israel Tensions Continue

Repeal Likely to Pass: Congress is likely to repeal economic sanctions on Syria enshrined in the 2019 Caesar Act in the coming weeks, unveiling language for its repeal within the...

December 8, 2025 | Matt Pottinger, Craig Singleton

Two words for investors in the future TikTok: Buyer, beware

The U.S. law and Trump’s executive order leave significant potential for Chinese control.

November 26, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Leah Siskind

DeepSeek May Intentionally Produce Malicious Code Due to Chinese Political Bias, Research Shows

China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models don’t simply follow the Communist Party line — they act on it. On November 20, the cybersecurity firm CloudStrike published a study suggesting that...

November 24, 2025 | Sophie McDowall, Jack Burnham

Saving CyberCorps: The case against killing the Scholarship for Service

Despite the rising cyber threats posed by China and other adversaries, the United States is poised to erode its frontline defenses, both now and in the future, by reducing its capacity to field a capable...

November 21, 2025 | Sinan Ciddi, William Doran

President Erdogan’s Decapitation of the Turkish Opposition

The US and NATO need to stand up for what remains of Turkey’s democracy.

November 21, 2025 | Sinan Ciddi |

London’s Eurofighter sale to Turkey: A win for industry, a loss for strategy

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side-by-side in Ankara on Oct. 28 to announce Turkey’s purchase of 20 Eurofighter Typhoons...

November 21, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Inside Qatar’s $225 Million Effort to Court US Policymakers and Press

Qatar still thinks money can buy you love, and it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States to prove it. During the first Trump administration, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

November 21, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Establishing a Cyber Force: A Defense Imperative

November 14, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

China’s kicking our butts in warship-building — here’s how we can catch up

US shipbuilding is in trouble. China builds 200 merchant ships a year for every one America builds. The gap is smaller for warships, but falling behind there is more dangerous — and Beijing...

November 13, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Jiwon Ma

Using Shutdown as Cover, Suspected Chinese Hackers Target the Congressional Budget Office

While President Donald Trump raved about his meeting with Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping in South Korea on October 30, it was business as usual for Beijing, targeting Washington’s secrets and security...

November 12, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Duncan Lazarow

China Pauses Some Rare Earth Export Curbs While Retaining Levers of Control

While China may have officially halted some hostile trade actions, Beijing isn’t laying down its most potent weapons. On November 9, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced a one-year delay...

November 7, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Sharaa To Be First-Ever Syrian Leader To Visit White House

In a meeting no one could have predicted just a year ago, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is scheduled to visit U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on November 10. It will be the first time a Syrian...

November 3, 2025 | Nicholas Leiserson, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Don’t let Congress punt on cyber insurance reform

The cyber incidents in the headlines aren’t acts of cyber terror.

October 29, 2025 | |

Polish Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea

Plane Flew Without Flight Plan or Transponder: Polish MiG-29 fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 spy plane over the Baltic Sea on October 29 and escorted it out of the area....

October 28, 2025 | Cameron McMillan, Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Ford Carrier Strike Group Departs Europe for Latin America

The Trump administration is dramatically increasing U.S. military firepower in Latin America. As the administration continued to strike vessels belonging to alleged narco-traffickers while escalating pressure...

October 22, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

2025 Annual Report on Implementation

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October 18, 2025 | Josh Birenbaum, Susan Soh

The Case for a Second Front in the War on Fentanyl

Follow the money — specifically, the role of Chinese gangs in cleaning cartel cash.

October 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen, David May

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled