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In a landmark address that kicked off the 19th Party Congress, President Xi Jinping articulated his vision for China’s future. The three and half hour reading of the work report witnessed Xi waxing ...

This paper examines several scenarios in which democratic governments might consider using deepfakes to advance their foreign policy objectives. It argues that officials should consider the following ...

Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. is an internationally recognized analyst, award-winning author, and lecturer on North Korean defense and intelligence affairs and ballistic missile development in developing ...

A sleeper issue in the trade agreements announced so far is the question of transshipment, a term that so far appears to be undefined in the agreements. How it is ultimately defined will have a big ...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is most often discussed in terms of economic, regulatory, environmental, and food security challenges. IUU fishing certainly touches on each of these ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...

Mark Sobel served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury for nearly four decades, including as deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy from 2000 to early 2015. From ...

Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war in 2014. The country now faces growing violence, a steady rise in Sunni Islamist extremism, an increasingly authoritarian leader that favors Iraq’s ...

On April 4, China’s Ministry of Commerce imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements (REEs) and magnets used in the defense, energy, and automotive sectors in response to U.S. President ...

Hezbollah is the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor, with a large and diverse stockpile of unguided artillery rockets, as well as ballistic, antiair, antitank, and antiship missiles. Hezbollah ...

Over the years, China’s dominance over the supply chain of critical minerals—minerals used in clean energy transition and electric vehicle (EV) batteries—has become a serious concern for many Western ...