Governments Must Respond to Beijing’s Sportswashing
Global governments can use the Olympics to remind Beijing that ‘sportswashing’ is a losing game.
Warfare Evolved: Hypersonic Missiles
Gauging the strategic impact of a new generation of missiles that defy all known manners of conventional interception.
Can China’s Belt and Road Open Up Landlocked Laos?
As a 420 km high-speed railway nears completion, two Chinese-built highways have been given the green light. Will these projects open up Laos, or make it a crossing point on China’s Belt and Road?
Beijing’s Mission to Make China’s Youth More Chinese
The Xi administration has moved to consolidate CCP control over classrooms across the country.
Japan-Australia Cooperation: Middle Powers Rising in the Indo-Pacific
The recently-signed Japan-Australia reciprocal access agreement signals the advent of a new era of middle power multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Warfare Evolved: Quantum Encryption
Advances in quantum encryption could change the way that modern states conduct their intelligence-gathering.
Backgrounder: China’s Military Modernization Comes of Age
The latest defense department report on China’s military modernization suggests that Beijing is rapidly closing the capability gap with Western peers, particularly with regard to air, sea, and missile forces.
China Seeks Atlantic Ocean Military Base
US efforts to rebuff China’s geopolitical advances in Equatorial Guinea are highly reminiscent of the Cold War.
Outlook 2022: China’s Economy
Beijing is facing a confluence of several economic crises in the year ahead. Will it stay its recent course of economic rebalancing, or revert to old policy playbooks?
Outlook 2022: COVID-19 & Global Debt
An omicron-fueled global resurgence of COVID-19 is a threat to stretched balance sheets around the world, and the risk is particularly pronounced in developing countries.