The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is using influence operations to undermine the U.S.-led world order. Modern PRC influence operations echo Soviet-era influence tactics while incorporating new technologies, suggesting that the United States can adapt lessons learned from combatting influence operations during the Cold War and modify them to fit today’s challenges. During the Cold...
Even as the United States has become more aware of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sustained political warfare against its adversaries, little has been done to expose or counter the Party’s exploitation of the international Chinese diaspora. The U.S. government has a strong strategic and moral interest in devoting more resources to protecting Chinese Americans...
“But what are these, a dozen missionaries… among the millions of Chinese to whom the Gospel is to be preached? And where are the converts, the churches, and the Christian families among the Chinese?… Darkness covers the land, and gross darkness the people. Idolatry, superstition, fraud, falsehood, cruelty, and oppression everywhere predominate …Though the prospect before us...
China’s nuclear buildup revives a Cold War dilemma: nuclear parity will make the United States mutually vulnerable to attack. Because massive retaliation only promises further reprisal, the United States would face a choice between suicide or surrender over attacks on its allies and partners. U.S. nuclear threats to defend them, therefore, would lose credibility. To...
Seemingly overnight, “New Cold War” has become the watchword of official Washington as the foreign policy community grapples with the question of how the United States should approach the dawning period of competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and how best to explain the shifting geopolitical landscape to the American people. Despite the...
In great power competition between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the threat of a nuclear contest is of increasing concern. With commitments detailed in the 2022 American National Defense Strategy (NDS) and Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), counterbalanced against the nuclear proliferation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through...
In 1964, there seemed to be only two countries with serious space ambitions—the United States and the Soviet Union. After all, the world’s two most wealthy and powerful nations made it their business to point rockets at one another, and the Space Race had flung machine and man alike into orbit. If any other countries...
“The evidence on the ground is that Russia is moving toward an imminent invasion. This is a crucial moment.”1 This statement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, issued to the media on 17 February 2022, echoed months of intelligence that the United States used to convince its allies in the West...
Here is our problem: The United States faces multiple, hostile, external powers. At the same time, there are segments of the American electorate who are reluctant to see the American government take military action against them.1 Many Americans worry that the American foreign policy elite want the United States to come to the aid of...
The growing influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Latin America is threatening U.S. security. In the coming decade, Chinese port construction projects in Latin America may grant China access to naval lanes critical to American commerce and military operations, and investments in telecommunication infrastructure may give China insight into the extent of...
