Information Warfare Watch No. 46
New Tech And The Fight Against Disinfo;
Manila Investigates Chinese Influence Ops;
How African Militants Are Harnessing TikTok;
Meta Cleans House
New Tech And The Fight Against Disinfo;
Manila Investigates Chinese Influence Ops;
How African Militants Are Harnessing TikTok;
Meta Cleans House
China Is Recruiting Russians -- FSB;
PRC Hackers Exploit Google Calendar;
Taiwan-Based Group Hacks China's Sensitive Infrastructure;
Internet Censorship in Henan Is Even Tighter;
China Launces New Railway To Iran To Bypass U.S. Sanctions
FInally, Hamas in Financial Crisis;
Bangladeshi Islamists Come In From the Cold;
Syria's Foreign Jihadists Get A New Vocation;
France Raises the Alarm;
Rogue Devices Found in Chinese Solar Power Inverters;
U.S. To Revoke Visas of Students With CCP Connections;
PRC Institutions Lure Chinese Researchers From U.S. Universities;
China Issues New Policies To Channel Capital Into Tech Innovation;
Pakistan Uses PRC Hypersonic Missiles To Hit India's Air Defenses;
In December 2010, the Asahi Shimbun published a remarkable roadmap laying out the future trajectory of Chinese maritime expansion. In its analysis, the Shimbun outlined a geographically contingent thesis of Chinese geopolitical strategy—one on which the scholar Tetsuo Kotani elaborated further in a 2019 academic paper. Both publications argue that Chinese maritime access to the Pacific and Indian Oceans is effectively constrained through a series of islands and straits in the First Island Chain. These potential chokepoints constitute the “Nine Gates” through which Chinese maritime commerce and sea power must flow.