China’s Middle Class May Be Xi Jinping’s Biggest Threat
While many assumed the government had bought off this influential group with decades of rising incomes, its political awakening may have just begun. Read More Here
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Tech Containment Is Core To Washington’s Cold War 2.0 Strategy
Technology is where national interest, human progress, education, innovation, culture, and economic development converge. Thus, technology will continue redrawing geopolitical lines, redefining sovereignty, and altering the global order in the 21st century. Read More Here
The Threat Reflex
A country that closely observes and upholds social norms can be considered to be “tight.” People in those societies don’t tolerate deviance and generally follow the rules. “Loose” countries celebrate individual creativity and freedom. Read More Here
US Intelligence Assessment Moves China To The Top Of The Threat List
The US intelligence community has put China at the top of its annual report of national security threats, warning of Beijing’s struggle to realise “an epochal geopolitical shift”, including increased air and naval operations in Asia intended to assert its control in contested areas. Read Here | South China Morning Post Read the intelligence report […]
China Is Starting To See India As A Major Threat
As the new year gets underway, and Chinese foreign policy analysts join their counterparts around the world in assessing the events of 2017, the emerging international relations (IR) discourse in Beijing is quite a revelation — at least to the Japanese and Indian strategic affairs community. While most Chinese believe Japan to be the second biggest threat to China’s “peaceful rise,” according […]
On India-China Himalayan Face-Off, China May Just Have A Case
All the bluster and threats between India and China these days should not conceal the fact that on the Doklam stand-off China has a case. Yet, the opacity in the position of all three players—India, China and Bhutan— confuses the issue. Certainly, the face-off speaks for the need for an urgent need for all parties […]
China Is Creating A DNA Database Straight Out Of Science Fiction
In the name of safeguarding its 1.4 billion people, China has been collecting biometric information from millions of people whom it deems potential threats—among them, Uyghurs, migrant workers, and college students—as part of national DNA database. Read Here – Defense One
Trump Won’t Allow You To Use iPads Or Laptops On Certain Airlines. Here’s Why.
It may not be about security. Three of the airlines that have been targeted for these measures — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have long been accused by their U.S. competitors of receiving massive effective subsidies from their governments. These airlines have been quietly worried for months that President Trump was going to […]
Is China Really That Dangerous?
(U.S.) DOD (Department of Defense) observes that China’s leaders “portray a strong military as critical to advancing Chinese interests, preventing other countries from taking steps that would damage those interests, and ensuring that China can defend itself and its sovereignty claims.” Which is precisely what U.S. policymakers do. Read Here – The National Interest
The U.S.-China Summit: Decoding A Tower of Babel
The feng shui for this meeting is not propitious. Almost every significant interest group in the United States, and many political forces in China, have been offended by recent developments in the bilateral relationship. Read Here – The Diplomat
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