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18 May 2021
China’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities: An Overview
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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Since China first conducted a nuclear weapon test in 1964, its nuclear doctrine has remained unchanged a...
China’s Port Investments in Sri Lanka Reflect Competition with India in the Indian Ocean
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By: Anita Inder Singh Source Link Introduction Located at the crossroads of global shipping lanes, Sri Lanka has become a significant recipi...
China’s State-Backed Messengers See Opportunity in India’s Coronavirus Woes
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Bryce Barros Etienne Soula Source Link China’s state-backed messengers are using India’s health crisis to denigrate the United States and ...
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: Is China in its Crosshairs?
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By: Sudha Ramachandran Source Link On April 21, a car packed with explosives detonated in the parking lot of the Serena Hotel in Quetta, the...
Top general: US considering training Afghan forces in other countries
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BY REBECCA KHEEL Source Link The U.S. military is considering continuing to train Afghan forces from different countries after U.S. troops...
Pentagon Struggles to Wean Afghan Military Off American Air Support
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By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt Source Link KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States has continued limited air support ...
Is Myanmar Headed for Collapse or Revolution?
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Source Link The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held a special leader’s summit on April 24 to discuss the escalating crisis i...
China Helping Russia on Northern Sea Route Now but Ready to Push Moscow Aside Later
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By: Paul Goble Source Link Russia’s ever-closer economic cooperation with China may not end the way Moscow hopes. Instead of strengthening R...
Tianhe Launch Marks a Key Step in China’s Growing Space Ambitions
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By: Elizabeth Chen Source Link Image: The launch of a Long March 5B Y2 rocket carrying the Tianhe module that will become the core of the Ch...
Why China’s Air Force Keeps Invading Taiwanese Air Space
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by Mark Episkopos Source Link Here's What You Need to Remember: China’s military and foreign policy apparatus has been increasingly less...
Don’t Let China Hijack the UN Security Council
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by Morgan Lorraine Vina Source Link This month, China will hold the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council . Despite the presidency...
Diving Off the Platform-Centric Mind-set
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By Lieutenant Commander Evan A. Karlik, U.S. Navy Source Link The most forward-looking, eagerly awaited, and closely scrutinized acquisition...
China hints it will choke off U.S. ‘rare earths’ access. But it’s not that easy.
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By David J. Lynch Source Link MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif. — Rusty tin shacks are all that remain of the gold miners who once prowled this desert ...
Tatmadaw Deploys Chinese-Made UAVs
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Source Link The Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, on February 1 deposed the democratically elected government led by the National League for De...
Abu Walaa’s Islamic State Network and Germany’s Counter-Terrorism Prosecutions
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By: Herbert Maack Source Link A German court sentenced on February 24 the alleged “Islamic State leader of Germany” to a lengthy prison sent...
There have been 7m-13m excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic
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Source Link Official figures say there have been 55,000 covid deaths in South Africa since March 27th last year. That puts the country’s dea...
Proportionate Deterrence: A Model Nuclear Posture Review
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GEORGE PERKOVICH, PRANAY VADDI Source Link Ever since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, every U.S. presidential administration has publ...
Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia, Part Two: Developments in Kazakhstan
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By: Sergey Sukhankin Source Link Introduction This is the second of a three-part series describing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) gr...
What Is Known About Russia’s Secret, Advanced “Kedr” Nuclear Missile?
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by Mark Episkopos Source Link Key point: The specifics of nuclear weapons is one of the more closely-guarded secrets of any country. Just ho...
The Vaccine Revolution
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Nicole Lurie, Jakob P. Cramer, and Richard J. Hatchett Source Link The novel coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2—exploded onto the world stage about a ye...
Are Augmented Humans the Future of War?
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By Jacob Parakilas Source Link The United States Space Force is the newest branch of the American military, and as its name suggests, the m...
Cuba’s New Leaders Promise Continuity to a Population Seeking Change
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Source Link In late April, Cuba experienced a watershed moment when Miguel Diaz-Canel became the leader of the Cuban Communist Party, comple...
Colonial Pipeline Paid a $5M Ransom—and Kept a Vicious Cycle Turning
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Source Link NEARLY A WEEK after a ransomware attack led Colonial Pipeline to halt fuel distribution on the East Coast , reports emerged on...
HASC Lawmakers to Push Pentagon to Designate Top-Level Leaders for Electromagnetic Warfare
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By: John Grady Source Link Electronic Warfare in today’s military environment. DoD Image Two key lawmakers on the House Armed Services Commi...
Shadow Warriors Pursuing Next-Gen Surveillance Tech
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By Jon Harper Source Link U.S. Special Operations Command and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity are pursuing new technolo...
17 May 2021
China’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities: An Overview
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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Since China first conducted a nuclear weapon test in 1964, its nuclear doctrine has remained unchanged an...
Military takeover without a coup in Pakistan
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By SALMAN RAFI SHEIKH Source Link When Imran Khan was deeply involved in a lawyer’s movement that aimed to end Pakistan’s military dictators...
A U.N. Peacekeeping Mission Is Afghanistan’s Best Hope
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Charli Carpenter Source Link For better or worse, the United States military is leaving Afghanistan. Proponents for withdrawal argue the U.S...
China Is Planning An Airbase On America’s Doorstep
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By Caleb Larson Source Link China has plans to improve an airplane landing strip as well as a bridge one of the Republic of Kiribati’s outl...
Time For Cognitive Warfare Against China?
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By James Holmes Source Link Over at the South China Morning Post, reporter Minnie Chan has the story of how the U.S. Navy destroyer Musti...
Baltic states start to turn away from China
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Andris Banka Source Link Over the past decade, China has made noteworthy strides towards drawing Eastern Europe into a web of cooperative re...
The World Might Want China’s Rules
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By Stephen M. Walt Source Link In his address to Congress last week, U.S. President Joe Biden pulled a page from former U.S. President Dwig...
Trade Deals Primarily Promote Stability, Not Trade
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By Jeffrey Kucik Source Link The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (CTA) isn’t like most trade deals. As the EU’s lead negotiator Michel...
Biden Wants to Replicate China’s Infrastructure Miracle
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By Yukon Huang Source Link In March, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a plan to invest more than $2 trillion in repairing and building ne...
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