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22 October 2017

Key Emerging Technologies

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“New technologies are redefining industries, blurring traditional boundaries and creating new opportunities on a scale never seen before. ...

Book Review of "Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan"

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by John Bolton Source Link In Afghanistan Americans seemed determined to validate F. Scott Fitzgerald's aphorism that American l...

The Weakest Link In The Cybersecurity Chain Is Sitting At The Keyboard

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by Scott Stewart Source Link One of the foundational precepts of Stratfor's security analysis is that as security measures becom...

The Guardian view on Xi Jinping: the life and soul of the party

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Source Link “The capability of any one individual is limited,” Xi Jinping warned five years ago as he assumed China’s leadership. Tho...

Could a Local War in Asia Create a Superpower Showdown Between America and China?

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Dave Majumdar Source Link The risk of China and the United States going to war in the West Pacific is fairly small, but over time W...

Future Of Asia Previous Social Media in China: The Great Distraction

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By Andrés Ortega Source Link Worried about social media helping to create popular movements, China runs an elaborate system of cen...

Grand Designs: Does China have a ‘Grand Strategy’?

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By Angela Stanzel, Nadège Rolland, Jabin Jacob, Melanie Hart  Source Link Do China’s leaders have a strategy for the long-term direc...

When the revolution eats itself

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by Buttonwood Source Link WHEN a revolution happens, the consequences are not obvious straight away. The British referendum on EU me...

In China, a Strategy Born of Weakness

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By George Friedman Source Link Editor’s note: Every five years, the Communist Party of China holds its National Congress, an opportu...

Why China Is Leading the Fintech Race

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Source Link The innovations of the U.S. tech sector are justly acclaimed, but China is racing ahead in the rapidly developing fintech ...

Syrian Reconstruction Spells Juicy Contracts for Russian, Iranian Firms

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BY  BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN Source Link The worst violence of the six-year-long Syrian civil war is winding down, as government forc...

Republicans Have Stockholm Syndrome, and It’s Getting Worse

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BY MAX BOOT Source Link The lobotomization of the Republican Party appeared complete last year when the same GOP paladins who had den...

A NEW STRATEGY FOR DETERRENCE AND ROLLBACK WITH NORTH KOREA

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MICHAEL J. GREEN AND MATTHEW KROENIG Source Link On Tuesday, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said of North Korea that the c...

Armageddon by Accident Trump and Kim’s brinkmanship raises the danger of an accidental conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

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BY DAN DE LUCE, JENNA MCLAUGHLIN, ELIAS GROLL Source Link Rising tensions between North Korea and the United States have sparked fre...

THROUGH A PERISCOPE DARKLY: THE NUCLEAR UNDERSEA COMPETITION IN SOUTHERN ASIA IS JUST BEGINNING

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DIANA WUEGER Source Link Strategic competition among China, India, and Pakistan has traditionally been land-oriented, with a focus o...

DoD says it shouldn’t protect homeland from cyberthreats; McCain disagrees

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By: Mark Pomerleau   Source Link In a heated exchange before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 19, the committee’s chairma...

Marines Sent Team to Middle East to Test Cyber Vulnerabilities

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BY:  HOPE HODGE SECK Source Link A sailor with 553 Cyber Protection Team opens a network monitoring program during I Marine Expediti...

Protect your privacy: A hacker’s guide to being cyber-safe

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By: Timothy Summers Source Link Protecting individual privacy from government intrusion is older than American democracy. In 1604, t...

DoD still working toward CYBERCOM elevation

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By: Mark Pomerleau Source Link President Donald Trump, in accordance with Congressional decree, directed Cyber Command to elevate ...
21 October 2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping's Solution for China

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is presiding over a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, called the National Congress. These meetings are ...

Is India Starting to Flex Its Military Muscles?

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BY SUMIT GANGULY, S. PAUL KAPUR Source Link This summer, India deployed troops to prevent China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fro...

Tillerson Knocks China, Courts India Ahead of South Asia Trip

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BY EMILY TAMKIN, ROBBIE GRAMER Source Link Just ahead of his first official trip to India, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered ...

Tillerson Woos India to Offset China

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KAITLIN LAVINDER Source Link Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled the Trump administration will be leaning on India to offset...

Navy SEALs Were Ready if Pakistan Failed to Free Family Held as Hostages

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By Adam Goldman, Eric Schmitt, Source Link A C.I.A. drone was circling a remote valley in northwest Pakistan last month when it pick...

How A US Raid On An Afghan Village Went Wrong

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By Dan Vergano Source Link It was Nov. 2, 2016, and he was strapped into one of two mammoth CH-47’s flying over the city of Kunduz i...

In China, a Strategy Born of Weakness

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By George Friedman Source Link Editor’s note: Every five years, the Communist Party of China holds its National Congress, an o...

After 4000 Years, China Eyes Truly Global Role

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By Colin Clark Source Link WASHINGTON: The president of China , seeming to cast aside the better part of four millennia of Chinese t...

China Can’t Solve the North Korea Problem. So Who Can?

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By Colum Hawken Source Link Since 4 July 2017, when North Korea tested a ballistic missile, the world’s focus has been on North East...

How China Is Winning The South China Sea

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Source Link In 2009, China asserted a claim to a huge swath of the South China Sea, including areas deep within other countries’ exclu...

America The Beautiful, But Divided

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by Rebecca Keller Source Link For nearly a year the world has worked to adapt to recent changes, both real and perceived, in U.S. fo...