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27 October 2022

Russia’s Recruiting Afghan Commandos

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Lynne O’Donnell Source Link   Members of Afghanistan’s elite National Army Commando Corps, who were abandoned by the United States and Weste...

In China, It’s One Man, One Ideology, One Party

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 Henry Gao Source Link At the closing session of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), General Secretary Xi Jinpi...

The New US National Security Strategy: Four Takeaways for Asia Policy

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Ryan Neuhard Source link Background On October 12, 2022, the US government published a new National Security Strategy (NSS) . The White Hous...

Chinese Economy Has A Fatal Flaw: Real Estate

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Alicia Garcia-Herrero Source Link Chinese real estate developers are desperate to recover from the prolonged lockdowns driven by China’s zer...

White House denies talk of national security review of Elon Musk ventures

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Dan Milmo Source Link US officials are considering whether to subject some of Elon Musk’s business ventures to national security reviews, in...

Official: China mining more coal but increasing wind, solar

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JOE McDONALD Source Link BEIJING (AP) — China plans to boost coal production through 2025 to avoid a repeat of last year’s power shortages, ...

THE PUNISHMENT PARADOX: UNDERSTANDING THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF SUSPENDING ARCTIC COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA

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Elizabeth Buchanan Source Link The age of Arctic exceptionalism is gone: the high north region is no longer a protected sphere of Russia-Wes...

Was Xi Behind Hu’s Dramatic Exit From the 20th CCP Congress? .

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Samantha Hoffman Source Link On Saturday, former Chinese Communist Party general secretary Hu Jintao was dramatically removed from the Great...

What are the priorities for the new UK prime minister?

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Antony Froggatt, Email Antony  LinkedIn Source Link Experts from across Chatham House’s research programmes give their insights on a range o...

The Age of Inflation Easy Money, Hard Choices

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Kenneth S. Rogoff Source Link Coming on the heels of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the inflation crisis of the past two years seem...

Russia’s Drone Strategy In Ukraine Exposed

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Jack Buckby Source Link New deliveries of Iranian drones and missiles to Russia not only pose a threat to Ukraine in the short term but cou...

Sun Tzu’s advice to Putin

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Source Link Russian President Vladimir Putin seems like he made up his mind for a protracted war. This war didn’t have three things from the...

China Will Fight A Taiwan War On Its Own Terms

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Mark Harrison Source Link Last Sunday, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, addressed the party’s 20th national congress in...

Russia’s Ukraine Disaster Exposes China’s Military Weakness

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Tai Ming Cheung Source Link Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has stirred fears that China could similarly move on Taiwan. By this logic, shared ...

Biden Issues New Order to Block Chinese Investment in Technology in the U.S.

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David E. Sanger Source Link WASHINGTON — President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday designed to sharpen the federal government’s ...

Full text of resolution on 19th CPC Central Committee report

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Huang Panyue Source Link BEIJING - The following is the full text of the Resolution of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of ...

Rishi Sunak: A quick guide to the UK’s new prime minister

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Source Link He won after running for the second time this year He lost to Liz Truss in September, but she resigned six weeks later. In the l...

How the FBI stumbled in the war on cybercrime

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Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden Source Link Investigating cybercrime was supposed to be the FBI’s third-highest priority, behind terrorism an...

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Blockchain Technology

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Veera Budhi Source Link A blockchain is a network of decentralized and distributed data (ledger), meaning the users share the ownership and ...

In Russia’s war against Ukraine, are ‘a coup or a nuke’ the only endgames left?

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Joshua Keating Source Link The longer the war in Ukraine lasts, the harder it gets to imagine how it might end. For one thing, both sides ap...

Ukrainian recovery funding must be tied to anti-corruption

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Josh Rudolph and Norman Eisen Source Link Given how valiantly Ukrainians are defending the front lines of the free world, a morally and poli...

The ships full of gas waiting off Europe’s coast

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Chris Baraniuk Source Link Cooled to roughly -160C for transportation, the fossil fuel is in very high demand. Yet the ships remain at sea w...

Getting to Negotiations Why it's so hard to find a route to a diplomatic resolution in Ukraine

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Lawrence Freedman Source Link The regular calls for negotiations to end Russia’s war with Ukraine tend to be more directed at Kyiv or Washin...

Afghan Militants Have China in Their Crosshairs

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Haiyun Ma Source Link Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “China dream” is actually “ China’s daydream of imperialism ,” according to a recent ar...

SAUDIS SOUGHT OIL PRODUCTION CUT SO DEEP IT SURPRISED EVEN RUSSIA

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Ken Klippenstein Source Link THE SAUDI-LED oil cartel OPEC+’s announcement earlier this month that it was cutting 2 million barrels of oil ...
26 October 2022

China’s Xi is more powerful than ever. What does it mean for the world?

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Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan Source Link It was a crowning moment for Xi Jinping when he stepped onto a red-carpet stage on Sunday to begi...

Security News This Week: TikTok’s Security Threat Comes Into Focus

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Source Link AS RUSSIA’S WAR in Ukraine drags on, Ukrainian forces have proved resilient and mounted increasingly intense counterattacks on K...

Biden Embraces America's Fiercest Enemies: Whose Side Is He On?

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Khaled Abu Toameh Source Link These members of Congress, [Saudi author Mohammed Al-Saed] implied, either do not know or are conveniently ...

How the Kharkiv Counteroffensive in Ukraine Proves Tanks Are Still Warfare Workhorses

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THOMAS MUTCH Source Link KHARKIV, UKRAINE—On a bright, sunny day in May, as birdsong mixed with the booms of explosions, I noticed a T-72 t...

The Russian Air Force has been very effective, contrary to Western narrative, short take-offs, and more

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Rohan Khattar Singh Source Link The Russian Air Force has re-engaged itself in Ukraine over the last ten days and has conducted strikes acro...

Nippon Steel pouring big money into India and Thailand

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SCOTT FOSTER Source Link Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal, two of the world’s largest steel companies, have turned their attention to India an...

The Putin Pawns in the NATO Alliance? How the West Emboldens Erdoğan's Aggression

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Burak Bekdil Source Link Turkey's Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been militarily threatening a fellow NATO ally, Greece, ...

Xi’s Third Term Is a Gift in Disguise

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Craig Singleton Source Link o exactly no one’s surprise, Xi Jinping will secure a third term atop the Chinese Communist Party at this week’...

IntelBrief: The Evolution of the Online Violent Extremist Landscape

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Source Link Terrorist and violent extremist use of the Internet continues to evolve, especially as new technologies afford nefarious actors ...

China reaffirms Xi’s dominance, removes No. 2 Li Keqiang

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KEN MORITSUGU Source Link BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party reaffirmed President Xi Jinping’s continued dominance in running the...