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WuXi Waylaid

Eliot Chen — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

When Congress resumes next month, the BioSecure Act will be one of its top priorities. The bill, which could dramatically reorder the global pharmaceutical supply chain, is the latest example of the U.S. trying to exorcize China from its supply chains, and it will have a profound effect on WuXi Apptec, the most important drugmaker American patients have never heard of.

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The China Risk in Index Funds

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

A look into how funds that track major indexes could be investing in companies with controversial links in China.

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Dmitri Alperovitch on Speeding Up Efforts to Deter China

Andrew Peaple — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The geopolitics analyst says Xi Jinping is bent on invading Taiwan and the U.S. needs to unite with its allies to win a new Cold War.

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Gunpowder Gambit

Katrina Northrop — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:00:00 +0000

China’s role in the gunpowder supply chain is spurring concerns in Washington and Brussels.

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Broken Engagement

Bob Davis — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Our series of interviews with top U.S. policy makers of the last 30 years has revealed how and why the American approach towards China has morphed from seeking closer ties to a desire for estrangement.

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Why Small Packages Are A Big Deal

Eliot Chen — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Stemming the tide of low-cost imports coming into the U.S. from China is proving tricky.

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Robert O’Brien on America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Failure Since the 1930s

Bob Davis — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The former national security advisor discusses the possibility of bombing Taiwanese chip fabs in any conflict, the fallout from January 6th and how a second Trump administration would approach China.

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Physicist in Exile

Katrina Northrop — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Yangyang Cheng came to the U.S. to study the mysteries of the universe. She ended up staying in order to study the role of science in geopolitics.

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The Case for Deterrence

Matt Pottinger — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Xi Jinping has made his desire to subjugate Taiwan known. The U.S. and its allies should take him at his word and take several urgent steps to convince him that such an action would be a grave miscalculation.

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Battle for the Skies

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Chinese drones help American police keep the streets safe, but lawmakers want them phased out.

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Access Denied

Brent Crane — Sun, 26 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Jen Easterly, the eccentric director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has huge support when it comes to her number one priority: fighting back against Chinese cyber attacks. But to actually solve the China hacking problem, she'll have to figure out how to line up both the private sector and the politicians who are skeptical of CISA.

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Daniel Mattingly on Xi Jinping’s Cultivation of the PLA

Katrina Northrop — Sun, 19 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The scholar discusses the role of the military in elite Chinese politics, and how Xi has reshaped the PLA.

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How to Bridge the Transatlantic Gap on China

Andrew Cainey — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The U.S. and Europe need to work together better on China-related issues. Step one: work out the differences in where each side is coming from.

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A Russian Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon Is Not Good News for China

Brian Hart — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Russia’s alleged development of a nuclear anti-satellite weapons capability could upend strategic stability between the three most powerful nuclear-armed states: the United States, China, and Russia.

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The Pacific Power Game

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000

With a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed, the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region.

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Hacking the Hackers

Eliot Chen — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Chinese hacking company at the center of a major data leak this month has strong connections within China’s cyber security industry and to the country’s leading state-backed research group.

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Minxin Pei on China’s Surveillance State

Rachel Cheung — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The political scientist talks about the capabilities and limitations of China’s coercive apparatus.

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Dawn Murphy on China’s Growing Influence in the Middle East and Africa

Andrew Peaple — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The academic talks about Beijing’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, plus why China’s ‘alternative order’ is attractive to countries in the Global South.

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Jason Matheny on Tech, National Security and China

Bob Davis — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The chief executive of Rand Corp talks about semiconductors, AI and the future of Chinese investment in the U.S..

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Why China Won’t Fight the Houthis

Yun Sun — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

China's main aim is to blame the U.S. and Israel for turmoil in the Middle East.

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The DNA Distortion

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ANDE, a U.S. biotechnology company, promised a "faster way to a safer world" with its revolutionary rapid DNA testing machine. But by selling its innovation to China's police force and public security apparatus, it has instead invited questions about the role of U.S. technologies in China's brutal surveillance state.

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U.S. Technologies and the Emboldening of China

Steve Coonen — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Rather than restricting access to militarily useful technologies, U.S. export control officials and their failed policies risk emboldening Beijing.

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Michael Rogers on China’s Cyber Threat

Bob Davis — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The head of U.S. Cyber Command under Presidents Obama and Trump on why it's been difficult to change China's behavior and the need for a new strategy on cyber.

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