Yellen gets warm reception in Beijing;
With an eye on Ukraine, PLA adjusts training;
China deepens its stake in Saudi Arabia;
Hong Kong tests extraterritoriality of national security law;
Beijing promises more assistance to the Solomons
China's fishing fleet goes global...;
...And encroaches on Africa;
Dam destruction an act of Russian eco-terrorism;
Rabat's grain dilemma
Moscow's loss, Riyadh's gain;
Wagner's changed circumstances...;
...Might mean an expanded threat from the North;
Russia's war on Ukrainian children;
Where are Moscow's Chechen reinforcements?
“[T]he basis of [U.S.] support” for Israel, longtime U.S. diplomat and Israel watcher Dennis Ross wrote back in 2015, “is driven by the perception of Israel as a country that shares America’s values... The last thing Israel needs now is to have its basic democratic character called into question.”
Paris nixes NATO office in Tokyo;
Japan underwrites Dhaka's regional economic ambitions...;
...And gets more competitive with foreign assistance;
More Chinese spy balloons spotted in Northeast Asia;
Seoul, Tokyo take steps to turn the page
Cleaning house in Ukraine's supreme court;
How anti-corruption aids Ukraine's military;
Nabu focuses on crypto;
China poised to expand stake in Ukraine's telecom sector;
The IMF presses for disclosures
Russia’s plan, clearly, is to raise the specter of food shortages (and political instability) as a way to turn world opinion against Ukraine, and to force Western nations to scale back their own campaign of pressure.
China sold drones to Russia for use in Ukraine;
Beijing slaps export ban on rare Earth metals;
New security law takes aim at Washington's tech offensive;
China's updated counter-espionage law prompts travel warning;
"Spy balloon" drama persists in Washington
China's Mideast footprint expands;
With an eye on NATO, Sweden strengthens anti-terrorism measures;
Taliban misrule incubates extremism
The argument over Russia's embassy in Australia;
What's Wagner's status in Africa?;
The human cost to Russia of the Ukraine War;
Prigozhin: not such a pariah after all?
Microsoft's nuclear gamble;
Building renewable energy solutions, brick by brick;
A success for the Air Force's swarm stopper;
The search for speed-of-light sensors;
The army's new digital recruitment
India, U.S. boost defense ties;
Pakistan cashes in on Russia's energy sell-off;
Counterterrorism worries push China, Iran, Pakistan together;
Nepal works to improve tepid ties to India...;
...As Delhi flexes its maritime muscle
War service becomes a (mostly) blank check for misbehavior;
New understandings between Moscow and Havana;
A stumbling block for Western efforts to seize Russian assets;
What was Prigozhin thinking?;
Minsk's role in Russian war crimes
Last year, more than a million people left Russia, marking what is likely the largest yearly emigration in recorded history... There are real and tangible threats which require sustained attention from the national security apparats of countries that are hosting Russian migrants now or will do so in the future.
China's millionaire exodus;
China records fewest marriages in more than three decades;
China is recruiting Canadians online;
China and Pakistan sign $4.8 billion nuclear power deal;
U.S. files charges against Chinese fentanyl makers
With NATO’s latest gathering this week in Vilnius, Washington is understandably focused on what the United States and its allies should do next to help Ukraine rebuff Russia. Moscow’s invasion, however, is part of a larger, multi-nation challenge to which Washington has not yet developed a comprehensive response.
That challenge is the axis of deepening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation between China, Russia, and Iran. Washington is responding to individual provocations in ways that seem to contradict one another.
Washington worries about the Arctic...;
...As Moscow mobilizes in the region;
Breaking China's stranglehold on the rare Earths market;
Recognizing the Holodomor
A trial balloon for Russian nuclear use;
Congress targets Russian funds in the West;
Russia seeks to upgrade Israel ties
How Tiktok animates Palestinian Extremism;
Russian disinfo targets foreign support for Ukraine...;
...Even as Prigozhin upends Russia's propaganda ecosystem;
Congress and the Information War;
Disinformation aids China's "comprehensive national security"
Chad's widening refugee crisis;
Long-delayed Mali referendum paves the way for elections;
Food aid withheld in Ethiopia... again;
Sudan shuts the door to the UN;
An upgraded American presence in Mauritius;
Inching toward electoral reform in Libya
[T]he long-term consequences of Prighozin’s power play are liable to be profound. Here are a trio of what could be the most consequential for Russian foreign policy — and for Western nations now marshalling a response to its aggression, both in Europe and beyond.
China's Xi backs Palestine statehood;
China's gaokao exam tests Xi Jinping thought;
U.S., China revive drug control talks ahead of Blinken visit;
China expands open-source intelligence collection in the U.S.;
Thousands of Chinese entering the U.S. illegally
The debate over designating Wagner;
Minsk and Moscow's nukes;
The fate of Russia's military brass;
Russia revisits the food weapon
Washington solidifies Pacific presence;
Cambodia's Hun Sen throttles opposition parties again;
Malaysia snubs Western concerns, welcomes Huawei;
Canberra bolsters Manila's maritime awareness;
China boosts military cooperation with Laos
Military improvements;
Cleaning up government procurement;
Creating anti-corruption agencies;
Ukraine as e-government model
These are heady days for Turkey's president. Last month, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's larger-than-life strongman, eked out an electoral win over opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu to secure a third five-year term in office. In the process, he dashed the hopes of many in the West for a more democratic turn on the part of NATO's only Middle Eastern member.
China has had spy base in Cuba since at least 2019;
Enforcers of One-Child Policy now seek a "birth-friendly society";
China's new conscription rules;
Asean to hold first joint military exercise in South China Sea;
Diplomatic tensions with Seoul
Central Asians have no intention to roll back their ties with their large neighbors, but seek rather to balance them with ties with the West... America now has before it what may be the last, best chance to prevent the region from being dominated by autocratic outsiders.
The rise of biocomputers;
Up next: 3-D printed chow?;
Body armor gets an upgrade;
The future of brain-human interfaces;
The potential of portable nuclear power
German fighter pilots are training PLA pilots in China;
U.S. sanctions Chinese firms over fentanyl-making equipment;
Thousands of China Muslims defend their mosque;
Chinese fighter jet buzzes U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft;
Chinese warship nearly collides with U.S. with U.S. destroyer in Taiwan Strait
With Washington resuming indirect talks with Tehran over its nuclear program, opponents of the 2015 nuclear deal in the United States and abroad are raising legitimate fears that Washington will provide the Islamic Republic with sanctions relief while getting little, if anything, in return. And who can blame them?
Washington moves away from new START.. finally;
Russian wartime infighting escalates;
Expert: Russia committing "Cultural Genocide" in Ukraine;
The cost of Bakhmut;
Russia takes back Asian arms
How can Delhi continue to grow in a changing global environment? The answer is closer partnership with Washington.
In his efforts to revive a Russian empire, Mr. Putin may have decisively doomed his country’s chances of ever being one again. For that, Russia’s president has no one but himself to blame.
North Korea builds China border wall;
China's youth unemployment hits record high;
China's spies sought to infiltrate Alaskan military bases;
Chinese hackers hit Kenya's government;
China simulates hypersonic strike on U.S. carrier group
Military robot dogs, today and tomorrow;
Repurposing the reaper;
Toward a mutant missile;
Russia testing nukes with lasers;
Eels engage in underground warfare
Prioritizing war over education;
How Wagner is exploiting Africa;
Gallup: Russia in imperial decline;
Informing on your neighbors makes a comeback
Missions in China warned over "propaganda" displays;
Canada expels PRC diplomat for gathering intel on MP's family;
Amsterdam should "push europe to uphold strategic autonomy";
China closes thousands of websites and removes dozens of apps;
Mexican President offers proof China shipping illegal fentanyl
To be sure, our leaders must engage not just with democratic allies but with autocrats in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and elsewhere. Presidents are wise to seek meetings in which to enunciate our values, delineate our priorities, glean what we can from our adversaries, and seek cooperation when possible.
Bangladesh drifts West;
Nepal, India draw closer;
Washington envisions a Western quad;
China poised to deepen Afghan foothold;
Pakistan hurtles toward chaos
The risky business of Russian defense science;
Truss: focus on Ukrainian victory, not Russian Democracy;
A different kind of prisoner's dilemma;
Belgrade rethinks loosened citizenship rules for Russians;
Greater connectivity for Kyiv
China limits data for foreigners;
Beijing trains rural cadres;
China clamps down on comedy;
China incentivizes families;
China's "Smokeless war" against spies
In some respects, the diplomatic peace offensive is as important as the Ukrainian ground offensive, because conflict termination will ultimately come from the bargaining table and not the battlefield. This phase of the conflict is critical.
Informing on your classmates comes back into vogue;
The Kremlin's curious retention policy;
Citizenship for service;
Next stop, Minsk;
Russia's brain drain intensifies
Birds aren't real?
Super soldiers, reconsidered;
China's phantom space strike;
AI wingman takes flight;
The PRC's stealth bomber gets an upgrade
South Africa takes sides;
Guinea's civilian opposition gains traction;
Ethiopia inches toward a wider peace;
Sudan's civil strife creates a wider crisis
Last month, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, visited Kyiv, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, and Brussels with “a clear message”: European governments should view Beijing as an alternative to Washington, and recognize Ukrainian territories seized by Moscow as belonging to Russia in order to quickly end the war.
Dissent within the nationalist ranks;
Back to Bishkek;
Moscow scrambles to stop a fleeing population;
Moscow gets a helping hand from Pretoria
Nearly a year-and-a-half into Russia’s “special military operation” against its western neighbor, its next-generation arms have failed to materialize in any meaningful way.