Differences over Taiwan’s status have fueled rising tensions between the island and the mainland. Conflict over Taiwan also has the potential to be a flash point in U.S.-China relations. | Continue reading
China and Russia have expanded trade and defense ties over the past decade, but they’re not formal allies. Experts say Russia’s war in Ukraine could be a turning point in the relationship. | Continue reading
Nothing about the present climate crisis or its implications is natural. Perhaps how the world deals with a warming planet shouldn't be either. | Continue reading
The United Nations General Assembly is about to open, with the traditional lead-off speech by the president of Brazil followed by the president of th… | Continue reading
China is one of Russia’s closest partners, but supporting the invasion of Ukraine would seriously damage Beijing’s ties with wealthy democracies and alienate Chinese citizens who oppose the invasion. | Continue reading
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a geopolitical earthquake that will cause repercussions far beyond Europe. But the Russian president might be planting the seeds for the demise of his regime by overreaching. | Continue reading
Learn about the world's top hotspots with this interactive Global Conflict Tracker from the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. | Continue reading
The world is moving toward electric vehicles and clean energy, but a green future doesn’t depend on wind turbines, solar panels, and Teslas alone. It will also require a vast supply of advanced batteries. As a result, global demand for lithium—an essential battery ingredient—is o … | Continue reading
Learn about the world's top hotspots with this interactive Global Conflict Tracker from the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. | Continue reading
AI will revolutionize the way that we write computer programs. The U.S. government and industries need to invest in AI as a cybersecurity tool. | Continue reading
Chinese trolls are beginning to pose serious threats to economic security, political stability, and personal safety worldwide. | Continue reading
The United States' dependence on oil has long influenced its foreign policy. This timeline traces the story of U.S. oil development. | Continue reading
Beijing has tightened its grip on Hong Kong in recent years, dimming hopes that the financial center will ever become a full democracy. | Continue reading
Whether to engage heads of rogue states, a perennial foreign policy dilemma, has emerged in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. | Continue reading
Recent killings by U.S. officers have sparked widespread calls for police reform and an end to systemic racism. Here’s how U.S. policing compares with other countries’ approaches. | Continue reading
U.S. surveillance activities have alarmed European partners, throwing the future of transatlantic digital trade into question. The U.S. should embrace collaboration and protections for personal data. | Continue reading
The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is underway, but the emergence of new coronavirus strains threatens to make the pandemic far worse before it gets better. | Continue reading
American pharmaceutical companies are skilled at using transfer pricing to shift the profit on their U.S. sales out of the United States. That is why the United States' trade deficit in pharmaceuticals is now bigger than the United States' trade surplus in aircraft. | Continue reading
Net purchases of US long-term securities topped $100 billion in September -- more than enough to finance the United States' current account defic… | Continue reading
U.S. health officials have warned that the coronavirus outbreak could lead to drug shortages. Just how much does the United States rely on pharmaceutical products from China and India? | Continue reading
Beijing is spreading disinformation to influence Taiwan’s election in January, but that doesn’t necessarily mean President Tsai Ing-wen will get voted out. | Continue reading
Many UN agencies, programs, and missions receive crucial funding from the United States. President Trump’s budget cuts could jeopardize their work. | Continue reading
The Trump administration has declared China a currency manipulator, but what that means for the ongoing trade war is far from clear. | Continue reading
5G networks could revolutionize the digital economy, but with this opportunity come major cybersecurity challenges. U.S. policymakers need to respond using technical and regulatory measures, diplomacy, and investments in cybersecurity skills training. | Continue reading
President Donald J. Trump’s actions have often been rash, ignorant, and chaotic. Yet some of his individual foreign policies are better than his opponents assert. | Continue reading
CFR’s Cyber Operations Tracker catalogues over 150 state-sponsored acts of espionage, sabotage and data destruction. | Continue reading
Justin Sherman is a cybersecurity policy fellow at New America. Robert Morgus is the deputy director of the FIU - New America Cybersecurity Capacity … | Continue reading
Russia and the United States proposed two competing resolutions, possibly expecting one to prevail over the other. Instead, the General Assembly approved both. | Continue reading
Although there are challenges facing the study of cyber conflict, they are not insurmountable. | Continue reading
The advent of drones has led to calls for new law to regulate the skies. One such proposal from the Uniform Law Commission is causing a stir in the United States. | Continue reading
Imagine a global leak, an explosion of data unlike anything the planet has yet seen, where the innermost secrets of virtually every government, corporation, and entity on the planet are thrown open. That could be the future of quantum computing. | Continue reading
The U.S. approach to cyber deterrence assumes that Washington will be deterring others. The Obama administration's response to Russian interference in the 2016 election tests that assumption. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked his internet adviser, German Klimenko. The dismissal has injected rare optimism into those hoping for a thaw of sorts in the battle for the Russian internet. That optimism may be misplaced. | Continue reading
Recent U.S. war games have shown that decision makers are surprisingly reluctant to use cyber weapons during a crisis scenario that escalates into armed conflict. Why? | Continue reading
From debt bondage in India, forced labor in North Korea, and human trafficking in Europe and the United States, an estimated 40.3 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. | Continue reading
Although states have sought to develop norms that constrain destabilizing behavior in cyberspace, they have struggled to make them stick. Here are three things state and non-state actors should consider when developing cyber norms. | Continue reading
As part of a new cybersecurity strategy, Japan wants to deter adversaries through cyberspace. That might prove challenging given its pacifist constitution. | Continue reading
International assistance programs rely on digital technologies to deliver food, housing, education, and a host of other services to the developing world. However, few donors or recipients incorporate cybersecurity into their activities. That's a problem. | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority group, are fleeing persecution in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, fueling a historic migration crisis. | Continue reading