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Can democracies defend themselves against Chinese high-tech colonialism?
China’s policy of fostering foreign dependence on Chinese manufacturing and infrastructure is a geopolitical strategy, and not merely an economic consequence of macroeconomic decisions. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cannot accept the economic dependence on other states that interdependence requires.
How can the US protect its health infrastructure against Russian and Chinese cyberattacks?
The attack by the Russian ransomware group ALPHV BlackCat on Change Healthcare on February 21, 2024, delayed treatment for untold numbers of patients and threatened the solvency of thousands of hospitals. In early 2020, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, China ramped up imports and restricted exports of personal protective equipment (PPE), exacerbating shortages and driving up prices in the United States.
A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the New US-Russian Relationship
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov declared on March 8 that Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda aligns with Russia’s. The US policies to which Peskov referred include US pressure on Ukraine to agree to a cease fire and cede territory to Russia; a downgrading in the importance of NATO;support for Russia in the United Nations; and an end to sanctions.
Opinion: China’s War Plans
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) makes no secret of its ambitions for global hegemony (though it uses the word “leadership” in place of hegemony). China’s quest for worldwide dominance is rooted in the shaky claim to power of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This might seem like an odd contention to outside observers, including the Trump administration who see Xi as the unquestioned dictator atop a party-state-economic monolith dominated at all levels by the CCP.
La Chine planifie la guerre
La République populaire de Chine (RPC) ne cache pas ses ambitions d’hégémonie mondiale (bien qu’elle utilise le mot « leadership » au lieu d’hégémonie). La quête de la Chine pour dominer le monde est ancrée dans la préservation du pouvoir par Xi Jinping et le Parti communiste chinois (PCC) dont il est le secrétaire général.
China’s War Plans
Commentary The People’s Republic of China (PRC) makes no secret of its ambitions for global hegemony (though it uses the word “leadership” in place of hegemony). China’s quest for worldwide dominance is rooted in the shaky claim to power of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This might seem like an odd contention to outside observers, including the Trump Administration who see Xi as the unquestioned dictator atop a party-state-economic monolith dominated at all levels by the CCP.
The end of nonproliferation?
The Trump administration’s abandonment of alliances in favor of a transactional, unilateral foreign policy portends the end of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The main reason that Germany, Japan, South Korea, other states have not developed independent nuclear forces is the U.S. security commitment. Now that the United States has weakened, questioned, or rejected those commitments, the rationale for nonproliferation has disappeared.
The US dividing Russia from China? Forget about it
The Trump administration’s effort to divide Russia from China is doomed to fail. This means that the United States is destroying security relationships based on a delusion. To succeed, Russia would need to overcome more than a century of hostility and distrust. Both Russia and the US would have to reorient their relationships with allies and adversaries; and the US would need to replace China’s economic support to Russia.
A U.S.-China War Over Taiwan Is Closer Than We Think
Article Summary: China’s ambitions for global hegemony are driven by Xi Jinping’s deep-seated insecurity about his grip on power, pushing him toward domestic repression and military expansion. His paranoia manifests in intense control over the military, prioritizing ideological indoctrination and loyalty. As China’s economy stagnates, Xi may feel compelled to accelerate efforts to take Taiwan by force to bolster nationalist legitimacy and fulfill personal ambitions.
China's War Plans
Xi’s insecurity manifests itself in a panoply of policies that include the introduction of a Maoist cult of personality for Xi himself; his personal assumption of leadership of all party internal security institutions, the continuing growth of mass technical and human surveillance both domestically and internationally; the destruction of Hong Kong’s last remnants of democracy; the classification of any internal disagreement as foreign directed; hypersensitivity to criticism from abroad; and a...
The Highland County Press
By Glenn Chafetz Real Clear Wire The People’s Republic of China (PRC) makes no secret of its ambitions for global hegemony (though it uses the word “leadership” in place of hegemony). China’s quest for worldwide dominance is rooted in the shaky claim to power of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
China's War Plans
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) makes no secret of its ambitions for global hegemony (though it uses the word “leadership” in place of hegemony). China’s quest for worldwide dominance is rooted in the shaky claim to power of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This might seem like an odd contention to outside observers, including the Trump Administration who see Xi as the unquestioned dictator atop a party-state-economic monolith dominated at all levels by the CCP.
China's War Plans
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) makes no secret of its ambitions for global hegemony (though it uses the word “leadership” in place of hegemony). China’s quest for worldwide dominance is rooted in the shaky claim to power of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This might seem like an odd contention to outside observers, including the Trump Administration who see Xi as the unquestioned dictator atop a party-state-economic monolith dominated at all levels by the CCP.
The U.S. Needs a More Accurate Estimate of China’s Commercial Espionage
OPINION — The massive looting of the U.S. economy via Chinese state-sponsored intellectual property (IP) theft has risen almost to the level of common knowledge. Former NSA Director Keith Alexander famously testified to the U.S. Senate that China’s theft constituted the greatest transfer of wealth in history. FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly made similar points.
The U.S. Can Provide an Alternative to China in Sub-Saharan Africa Original
China’s influence in sub-Saharan Africa is allegedly closely coordinated, and effective, if not unstoppable. The Chinese government seeks to dominate the supply of critical minerals, gain political influence, and undermine the West using state subsidies, low wages, state-party-enterprise coordination, and disregard for legalities to secure access. China gives African states money and infrastructure in exchange for resources and influence.
How China's Intelligence Law Backfired
OPINION — The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced in 2017 that it would compel its citizens and its companies to steal secrets from the rest of the world. This announcement came in the form of Article 7 of the National Intelligence Law, which made cooperation with China’s intelligence services a requirement for all Chinese everywhere. Now in 2024, enough time has gone by to assess the effects of this law. They are not all of what the CCP hoped for and expected.
Fox in the Henhouse: The Growing Harms of North Korea’s Remote IT Workforce
North Korea has quietly seeded thousands of information technology (IT) professionals into contractors and subcontractors that serve the United States’ largest and most profitable companies. These workers operate under American or third country false identities. This IT army’s main objective is to earn money for the perpetually cash strapped Kim Jong Un regime. These funds support North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs and prop up Kim’s dictatorship.
5/22/24 Korean News and Commentary
Quotes of the Day: "Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap." – Simone de Beauvoir "Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." – Ludwig Wittgenstein "No right is more sacred to a nation, to a people, than the right to freely determine its social, economic, political and cultural future, without external interference.
Fox in the Henhouse: The Growing Harms of North Korea’s Remote IT Workforce - Tribune Content Agency
North Korea has quietly seeded thousands of information technology (IT) professionals into contractors and subcontractors that serve the United States’ largest and most profitable companies. These workers operate under American or third country false identities. This IT army’s main objective is to earn money for the perpetually cash strapped Kim Jong Un regime. These funds support North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs and prop up Kim’s dictatorship.
China’s aggressive fragility
After German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator” in a September 15 interview, Beijin called in the German ambassador and emphatically and publicly complained. This tantrum was no mere semantic complaint, but a paradoxical revelation of both China’s fragility and its global authoritarian aspirations.
Why Putin’s Russia cannot accept its borders
By Glenn Chafetz, John Sipher, for UkraineAlert To understand Russia’s current obsession with Ukraine, it is important to recognize that Russia was never a state in the common usage of the term. Unlike the modern Turkish state that emerged from the Ottoman Empire, or Great Britain, which acquired and lost an empire, Russia never had an identity separate from empire.
China, Lawfare, and the Contest for Control of Low Earth Orbit
China, Lawfare, and the Contest for Control of Low Earth Orbit The Chinese government seeks strategic advantage in space through attacks on the Western private sector.
China, Lawfare, and the Contest for Control of Low Earth Orbit
The Chinese government seeks strategic advantage in space through attacks on the Western private sector. By and for The Diplomat People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force officers Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui Wang argued in their 1999 book, “Unrestricted Warfare,” that to win a war with the United States, China must mass its intelligence, economic, and political resources where U.S. defenses were weakest: its private sector.
China, Lawfare, and the Contest for Control of Low Earth Orbit - Tribune Content Agency (August 9, 2023)
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force officers Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui Wang argued in their 1999 book, “Unrestricted Warfare,” that to win a war with the United States, China must mass its intelligence, economic, and political resources where U.S. defenses were weakest: its private sector. The book today reads like a plan for the past two decades of non-military warfare waged against the Western private sector by Beijing and its business surrogates.
Death of Mikhail Gorbachev highlights Europe’s lingering memory divide
Few would argue that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away this week aged 91, was a figure of huge historical significance. However, reactions to his death varied greatly across Europe, reflecting a memory divide that is also evident in contemporary European attitudes toward Vladimir Putin’s imperial agenda.
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