Publications

Former British and Aussie pilots train the PLA air force;
China dumps bad chips on Russia: Moscow;
China blocks Polish defense minister's flight to Korea;
Rare protest banners in Beijing attack Xi;
"Russia is the storm, China is climate change": German spy chief

Chinese microchips are failing Moscow;
New tactics belie a different hand at the wheel of war;
Yet another German official compromised by the Kremlin;
In Russia, an underground ethnic protest movement emerges;
Israel recalibrates its Ukraine war policy

Cracks in the Kremlin consensus;
Western tech still fuels Putin's war machine;
Iran and the Russian war effort;
Putin consolidates power over Moscow-claimed territories

India's media sphere tightens;
How Russian disinformation is changing;
Manipulating media in Africa;
Turkey's new - and authoritarian - disinformation bill

Special Issue: Iran's Anti-hijab protests
The basis for the crackdown;
Official conspiracy theories abound;
Iran's clerics contemplate cutting their losses;
The ethnic dimension of the protests;
Iranian officials eye the exits

Defending commercial satellites;
Chinese solar drone takes flight;
British quantum submarine detection;
A new missile system for the army;
Target practice in space

Rumblings in the military ranks;
...As ethnic minorities protest conscription;
Exploiting Africa to fund the Ukraine campaign;
Nationalizing Eastern energy;
Putin's newest conscripts

Drought, famine face Somalia;
China's drought drives the great power competition conversation;
On coal, Beijing sticks to the status quo;
Another casualty of Russia's war in Ukraine; fertilizer;
The fallout from the Nord Stream explosions

​A virtual lie detector;
China invests in transmedia vessels...;
...while the U.S. raises planes from the dead;
U.S. space combat training begins...;
...as China tests reusable space plane

Delhi reconsiders the Ukraine war;
Pakistani floods, international ramifications;
India, China choose to deescalate;
A helping hand for the Taliban;
New Bangladesh-Myanmar frictions

U.S. controls will take China's chip industry "back to the stone age";
Taiwan vows to safeguard chip tech from China;
China's fishing fleet threatens the U.S. and Latin America;
China spreads propaganda in the Solomon Islands;
UN rejects bid to debate on abuses in Xinjiang

Nord Stream explosions revive European energy debate;
Old Russian armor rolls onto the battlefield;
Conscripts as cannon fodder;
Stealing Ukraine's grain

Facebook closes dozens of Beijing-controlled fake accounts;
Former Justice Minister jailed for life for corruption;
European firms cutting China operations over ideology;
China's space footprint in South America fuels security concerns;
Shanghai unveils $257B in infrastructure projects

Kenya turns the page;
Tensions between Mali, Ivory Coast on the rise;
Movement towards compromise in Ethiopia's civil war?;
Landlocked nations eye Nigeria's new port;
What African publics really think about China

The penalties for failing to fight;
Putin's unwilling recruits;
Helsinki turns a cold shoulder;
A post-mobilization exodus;
...Prompts the Kremlin to shore up Russia's creative class

Putin plans "Partial Mobilization";
...Fake referendums...;
...And threatens nuclear war...;
...As other officials follow suit;
A warning from Washington

Taiwan creating a backup internet system in case of invasion;
Former Texas A&M professor pleads guilty;
PLA and Russian naval ships spotted near Alaska;
China's new oil platform in the East China Sea angers Japan;
As COVID lockdowns continue, so do Macau's losses

China's influence on the ascent in the South Pacific;
Manila weighs future steps in the shadow of Taiwan;
Suffocating debt imperils Laos' political future;
Canberra, Port Moresby respond to Beijing's encroachment

Zombie ice a threat to coasts worldwide;
America's new "Arctic Ambassador";
Pakistan's climate emergency;
A fragile consensus in Bali

Biden: U.S. forces will defend Taiwan;
China recruits Los Alamos scientists to design missiles and drones;
Pleads for food, medical care grow as "Zero-Covid" persists;
Censors drown out posts about food and medicine shortages;
Hong Kong police arrest harmonica player at Queen's vigil

Soviet queen of pop turns anti-war activist;
Harsh penalties for Russia's soldiers;
Central Asia closes up shop;
The true impact of sanctions against Russia;
Putin sacks more military brass amid war stumbles

Russians flee Putin's war;
A Russian weapon of war: Filtration;
Wagner, depleted;
Zelensky's appeal

BMW's Chinese partner embezzled $1.2 billion;
Pope sought meeting with Xi, but was rebuffed;
India, France share China concerns;
Germany vows 'no more naivety' in its China policy;
Biden Executive Order blocks Chinese investment in U.S. tech

Israel's new shooter detection system;
Building blimps to seek hypersonic missiles;
A post-quantum world in Cybersecurity;
Toward scientifically-induced morality;
China's goal: AI to monitor loyalty to the party;
3D printing at sea

Another oligarch meets an untimely end;
Moscow puts the energy squeeze on Europe;
Making an example of Ivan;
What Russia needs to fight its war;
A helping hand from the DPRK

U.S. approves $1.1 billion weapons sale to Taiwan;
Beijing makes progress on the moon;
China collecting DNA samples in Tibet;
KPMG faces $830 million lawsuit for "appalling" Chinese audit;
Singapore replaces Hong Kong as top haven for Chinese elite

Tehran leans into cryptocurrency;
A promotion for Mojtaba;
Iran dips its toe into the AI field;
Tehran targets Sweden in WMD quest

U.S. business confidence in China falls to record low;
U.S., China suspends each other's flights;
China's espionage alarms Europe;
UN: China committing "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang;
Xi encourages foreigners to tell China's stories

Sri Lanka's presidential election provides no reprieve;
China backstops Pakistani terrorism;
Washington, Delhi continue to drift together;
Bangladesh plays a risky regional game

Hong Kong National Security trial to proceed without jury;
China forcing political critics into psychatric hospitals;
Solar panels pile up at U.S. border due to Xinjiang forced labor law;
As birth slumps, China discourages abortions;
NIH terminates grant after Wuhan lab refused to share data

A contested vote in Kenya;
After France, more extremism in Mali… and elsewhere in Africa;
The Biden Administration seeks to make up ground in Africa;
The GERD as flashpoint… again

Latvia, Estonia leave China's East Europe forum;
Lithuanian Deputy Minister visits Taiwan;
Sri Lanka allows PLA spy ship to dock at Hambantota Port;
Fewer Chinese students heading to the U.S.;
CPC warns Israel: Don't get "dragged" into U.S.-China policy