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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Priorities, Summed Up in One Word
For several years now, the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged that China is its top national security priority.
The CCP’s Two-Track Approach to AI Training
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made clear its intention to become a world leader in developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models. For now, the United States and American...
China Will Defeat America If They Blockade Taiwan
Key Points: Many experts argue that China is preparing to seize Taiwan, driven by economic, geopolitical, and historical motivations. The CCP views Taiwan’s annexation as a way to solidify its dominance...
China Has a Big Aircraft Carrier Question to Answer
Summary and Key Points: China’s investment in aircraft carriers has advanced quickly, positioning the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as a potential regional power. Despite progress, significant challenges remain, including...
Why Trying to ‘Defeat’ the Chinese Communist Party Could Backfire
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. faces strategic challenges with China, which aims to reshape the international order. The Biden administration’s approach involves managing competition rather than seeking outright victory...
China’s Military Is Slowly Becoming a Superpower Before Our Eyes
China presents the greatest long-term national security threat to the United States. Beijing is looking to upend the rules-based international system that Washington has overseen since the end of World War II. In its latest...
Into the Breach: Countering Chinese Digital Espionage in Routers
For anyone following the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) actions related to digital technology, the specter that Chinese companies could be leveraged to conduct intelligence activities has been ever-present. National security...
China’s Economy Is in Trouble: Is Xi Jinping?
The Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, aren’t doing so well. Sky-high youth unemployment, a tumbling stock market, and continuing real-estate turmoil threaten to derail his “China dream”...
China’s Space Strategy Dwarfs U.S. Ambitions
Last month, rumors that Russia has been developing a space-based nuclear weapon took the media by storm. The technology in question, ominously dubbed a “serious national security threat” by House...
China Escalates Border Dispute with Taiwan
With Taiwan’s January elections giving a different result than mainland China had hoped for, the PRC has introduced a new scheme that has the potential to have disastrous international consequences:...
Leadership Changes Reveal China’s Grand Strategy for 2024
China entered 2023 emerging from one sea of troubles, only to find itself embroiled in another. The lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions in November 2022 as a result of widespread protests...
China’s Taiwan Nightmare Has Come True
Imagine that. Constant bombast coupled with daily armed provocations is no way to endear yourself to audiences overseas. Or, as the Wall Street Journal put it recently, “China confronts a...