U.S. intel official warns: China seeks to dominate advanced tech;
China's cyberspace administration to eliminate "illegal publishing and reprinting";
U.S. revokes license of China telecom;
Hong Kong passes new film censorship law;
Beijing wants "new media platforms that cover the entire world"
The curious case of Kirill Zhalo;
Moscow businesses struggle with lockdown closures;
Russia says U.S. presence in Black Sea provocative;
Russia plows ahead with submarine modernization;
"Non-working days" extended in five Russian regions;
Polish PM accuses Putin of masterminding migrant crisis
Biden vows to defend Taiwan if China attacks;
U.S. warns of Beijing's efforts to collect genetic data;
China-based hackers attack Hillel Yaffe Medical Center;
China to build outpost for Tajik forces near Xinjiang, Afghan border;
China rations electricity and diesel amid shortages
Russia's "non-working week" begins with grim markers;
Natural gas reversal a signal to Europe;
Russia comes to the climate change table:
Russia focuses on nuclear, missile modernization;
The tense Russian-Ukrainian border;
Bringing North Korea in from the cold
Today, the Egyptian state faces no shortage of strategic threats, ranging from instability emanating from the ongoing crisis next door in Libya to an escalating conflict with nearby Ethiopia over access to the Nile. Yet its biggest long-term challenge is a distinctly domestic one: the quickening pace of its own population.
How countries weigh the trade-off between economic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and military protection from the United States will determine much of the 21st Century’s geopolitics.
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Harvard Beijing Academy moves to Taipei;
U of HK orders removal of statue commemorating Tiananmen protests;
Tight funding, facility shortages top list of education challenges;
Xi pushes property tax legislation;
China provides economic and political support to the Taliban
After September's vote, fissures in the Russian opposition;
Russia freezes diplomatic ties to NATO;
Moscow heads toward partial lockdown;
The Kremlin holds Afghan stability talks;
Communist Party's first electoral lawsuit shot down;
Russia fears a strong Ukraine
Mental health survey: Many cases of depression, lack of treatment;
News leaks of U.S. secretly training Taiwan forces...;
...as Beijing warns Washington;
Microsoft to shut down LinkedIn app in China;
Apple Store crackdown hits holy books and Amazon's Audible
The Biden administration’s announcement that it will limit economic sanctions as a tool of foreign policy could prove significant, since it follows two decades in which policymakers of both parties dramatically increased the use of sanctions against governments, individuals, and entities that they considered bad actors.
Disinformation is reshaping Kenyan discourse;
China's widening social media manipulation;
The U.S. Army focuses on the "information advantage";
Russian disinfo campaigns getting around western defenses;
How AI will revolutionize propaganda
Novaya Gazeta's Muratov awarded Nobel Peace Prize;
Why Russians are fleeing;
Russia brandishes its energy weapon;
ROSCOSMOS in the crosshairs'
Justice denied for gulag historian
With AUKUS, Canberra serves notice to Beijing;
As China increases air sorties, Taiwan signals Australia and America;
BRI frustration festers in Beijing's backyard;
Vietnam angles to offset China's influence over Laos and Cambodia;
North Korea shows growing signs of strains in public health, economy
The Communist challenge to Putin's Russia;
Now, plans underway for an Arctic fleet;
Justice Ministry targets more outlets and journalists;
Malian deal with Wagner looms
Adapting to adversary radar, on the fly;
New testing for airborne directed energy weapons;
Next up: Solar powered drones?;
3D printed smart armor;
Optimizing high speed drone flight
Industry report: China-DRC mining deal "unconscionable";
Ethiopia's national airline implicated in weapons shipments...;
...as Ahmed closes Ethiopian embassy in Dublin;
Egypt eyes Africa's tech market;
Algeria's circle of friends gets smaller
Whatever happened to America's Syria policy?
Activist exposes prison torture;
The Kremlin and Russia's carbon footprint;
Russian diplomats in the U.S. threatened with expulsion;
Deterring Russia: The view from Warsaw;
Russia's dangerous energy leverage over Europe
Sudan seizes Hamas assets;
Saudi textbooks trend more tolerant;
Next up, a nuclear Taliban?;
Iraq and the "Abraham Accords"
Crimean drought escalates tensions between Ukraine and Russia;
Climate change and the military;
Congress focuses on rare earths as part of infrastructure bill...;
...and in new legislation;
After withdrawal, a new contest over Afghanistan
For the Kremlin, everyone is a "foreign agent";
Putin tightens the fiscal belt;
Pandora Papers implicate Putin's inner circle;
Back to arms control with Moscow
The West faces a key test of its commitment to human rights as the Taliban cements its rigid rule in Kabul.
PLA suffers from shortage of recruits and "low troop morale";
Lithuania urges Europeans to toss Chinese phones;
Huawei Chairman: U.S. sanctions to blame for $30-$40B in revenue loss;
China makes all cryptocurrency transactions illegal;
Facing crisis, Beijing orders energy firms to secure supplies
The message from Israel’s top leadership could not be any clearer: It is prepared to act to prevent a nuclear Iran.
Revolutionized radar;
Russia's new, more versatile rifle;
How the world should approach gene editing;
A replacement for today's tanks;
Force fields forthcoming?
Iran's regime continues to struggle with Covid...;
...and backtracks on Western vaccine ban;
Iranian-Saudi reconciliation inches forward...or does it?;
A warning over Iran's nuclear progress
Russia refocuses on demography;
U.S. travel rules don't recognize Russian vaccines;
In Russia, a raging pandemic;
Now, expanded Russian gas headed to Hungary;
At Sochi, a Russo-Turkish thaw
Iran's impending entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Eurasian bloc that China and Russia lead, has great potential to limit U.S., Israeli and Western leeway in confronting Tehran's nuclear and hegemonic aspirations, sponsorship of international terrorism and efforts at regional de-stabilization.
AFPC fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies Michael Sobolik testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee: Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation regarding the 'Strengthening of U.S. Ties with Southeast Asia.'
In Morocco's elections, an Islamist rout;
Egypt cracks down on Islamist literature;
Foreign fighters go to ground in Austria;
ISIS grows in Africa;
The al-Hol nightmare, continued
When Moroccans went to the polls earlier this month to elect a new parliament, the result was a massive repudiation of Islamism – and a resounding affirmation of the North African nation's current geopolitical trajectory.
As the Taliban resurrects its Islamic Emirate, the United States is once again facing the likelihood of terrorist groups operating at will within Afghanistan.
[T]here’s another, less-recognized setback happening for the United States far south of the Rio Grande or the Sonora Desert: crumbling relationships with Latin American countries.
Russian detained in Prague on Crimea-related charges;
New Dzerzhinsky monuments cause a stir;
Dissident investigation claims Lavrov mistress;
Communist party will not recognize e-votes;
Belarus included in the SCO's "Peace Mission 2021";
Russia found responsible for Litvinenko assassination
Despite the Biden administration’s desire to be rid of Afghanistan, now is not the time to disengage.
Ahead of elections, Russian authorities stack the digital deck;
Crimean Tatars arrested on sabotage suspicion;
Russia, Belarus inch toward integration;
Nord Stream II comes of age;
NATO wary of Zapad-2021 military exercise
To change Beijing’s calculus, arm Taipei with missiles and turn the island into a ‘porcupine.’
China's crackdown on culture continues;
Local governments accused of "fabricating economic data";
Prenatal test under international scrutiny for military links;
Tiananmen vigil organizers in Hong Kong charged;
China using Honduras election to "create controversy"; Taipei
...if America is not loyal to our friends, chances are that we will soon find ourselves without any.
It's official: Saudi Arabia has begun to seek other suitors.
No matter who wins, public opinion and the possibility of having to partner in a coalition government make it likely that the victor will take a more hawkish line.
Pope defends deal with China;
China shuts American Chamber of Commerce in Chengdu;
Beijing to establish a stock exchange for small business: XI;
Micronesia rejects Chinese funding for Pacific undersea cable;
Crackdown on showbiz for 'polluting' society
Russia's new climate strategy: Less than meets the eye;
Navalny ally politically intimidated, removed from ballot;
Journalist: Putin's regime has entered survival mode;
Homophobia on stage;
Is Russia walking away from the ISS?
Could the Communist Party be more clear that it does not keep its word?
In July, a U.N. panel of experts released a new report on global terrorism, with some alarming conclusions. In it, they noted that East and West Africa have been the world regions hardest hit by terrorism over the past year, and that terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria are fast becoming "an entrenched insurgency."
Riyadh turns to Russia;
Russia's military equiptment gets a facelift;
The legal fight over water in Crimea;
Russia evacuates 500 from Afghanistan;
Navalny being surveilled, force fed state propoganda;
Stalin-era grave site discovered in Ukraine
Abraham Accords offer New Delhi a new opening...;
...while the Taliban's ascent complicates India's calculus;
Changing South Korean attitudes about China, Japan;
Taipei warns Beijing can "paralyze" its defenses;
Thailand's unrest continues
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties to Morocco;
The Sudans: An agenda for growth;
Congo rethinks China deals;
Ethiopian rebels accused of war crimes...;
...As U.S. sanctions eritrean military chief
How social media helped the Taliban win;
Afghanistan: A problem for platforms;
Kyiv works to limit Moscow's messaging;
Due to disinfo, Latvia lags on health;
Cracking down on anti-vaccine disinformation