The U.S. government believes that China is planning to build its first military base in the Atlantic Ocean, specifically in Equatorial Guinea. This has been conveyed to the Central African country by Joe Biden’s administration, which has raised concerns about “potential measures” and activities that suggest that Beijing could be building a military base. Pentagon …

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The Chinese Army pressures Equatorial Guinea to establish a permanent base with an ocean outlet. The expansion of the Chinese giant is unstoppable. Now the United States suspects that Beijing has set its sights on the Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles from its routine operational military bases in the Indo-Pacific, specifically on the coast of …

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Washington has strategic, economic, and normative reasons for safeguarding the island from Chinese coercion. Amidst talk of U.S.-China competition, Taiwan too often devolves into a policy football, a subset object at the prey of larger geopolitical forces. Calls to make an explicit security guarantee for Taiwan, maintain the status quo, or even abandon the island cannot exist apart from …

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The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Elizabeth Threlkeld – senior fellow and deputy director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center – is the 285th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.” Explain Islamabad’s strategic …

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Our natural impulse when thinking about future amphibious operations is to look to the past. Yet the reality is that no good point of comparison for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan exists. Every year on June 6, the United States and its NATO allies commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, the daring amphibious assault on France’s …

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Official Washington has identified China as the primary challenger to the United States in virtually every sphere. This overwhelming emphasis on Beijing as the ultimate threat to the United States is misguided and is more likely to undermine U.S. security than it is to enhance it. Focusing on China is a good way to pump up …

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What are Talent Plans? Foreign governments sponsor talent recruitment programs, or talent plans, to bring outside knowledge and innovation back to their countries—and sometimes that means stealing trade secrets, breaking export control laws, or violating conflict-of-interest policies to do so. While various countries use talent plans, the Chinese government is the most prolific sponsor of …

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“The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China.” FBI Director Christopher Wray The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and …

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While officials in Washington sound the alarm about a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, officials and residents on the island say that fails to understand the true dynamics in the region. TAIPEI, Taiwan — More than two dozen Chinese military jets, including bombers, ripped through the sky approaching Taiwan one Monday last month. The record incursion into Taiwan’s …

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