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.
CACI chairman S. Frederick Starr discusses the resurgence of Imperial Russia with the American Purpose magazine
Digital authoritarianism and weaponized disinformation;
Israel's upgraded public diplomacy;
China, TikTok and cognitive warfare
Targeting the legal defenders;
Countering Wagner in Africa;
The real state of Russian industry;
Flashpoint: Zaporizhzhia
Between mid-March and mid-April, Israel's northern frontier experienced its worst spasm of instability in over a decade-and-a-half. On March 13, an armed extremist connected to Hezbollah infiltrated the country and blew up a car at the Megiddo junction, some 50 miles south of the Israeli-Lebanese border. Three weeks later, over the Passover holiday, the Hamas terrorist group launched a salvo of 36 rockets from Lebanese territory against towns and civilian populations in the western Galilee, wounding several and damaging local infrastructure. Two days after that, rockets were launched at Israel from Syria as well.
Moscow digs in in Central Asia;
A Russian hand in pipeline blast, after all;
A reporter as political pawn;
Mounting international condemnation of Russia's war of choice;
The complicated case of Mikhail Fridman
Hong Kong eliminates most elected seats;
Scholz's push for China port deal triggers pushback;
China cracks down on foreign firms, cuts their access to info;
Facing a lack of recruits, China revises conscription law;
U.S. Seeks to "De-risk" its relationship with China: Sullivan
China and Africa's critical minerals;
The environmental risks of the Ukraine war;
A scramble for the Arctic
Engaged in high-stakes political drama, Washington’s playmakers can forget that the world watches their every move—with our allies looking for leadership and growing concerned that we may no longer have the wherewithal to provide it, and our adversaries savoring our domestic turmoil.
Iran in talks with China to acquire sanctioned missile fuel;
China censors AI;
India's villages program in Arunachal Pradesh angers China;
China's tightening grip on foreign firms hits investment;
China's expands its anti-espionage law
This state of affairs makes a collapse of the current ruling coalition a distinct possibility.
Wagner games Sudan's civil crisis;
More military help from Tehran;
Moscow targets students for conscription...;
...Amid Kremlin worries over domestic effects;
Russifying Ukraine's regions