How Brazil is Flipping the Script on Trade Relations With China
China is Brazil’s largest and most important trading partner. Celio Hiratuka explains how the Brazil-China trade relationship is evolving and…
Geographical Coverage: China
Localization And China’s Tech Success In Indonesia
This paper examines how despite ambivalence about Chinese intentions in Indonesia’s political and defense establishment, Chinese telecoms firms have successfully…
Russia’s National Security Narrative: All Quiet on the Eastern Front
This paper explores how the war in Ukraine has cemented the Russian-Chinese for the foreseeable future. While focusing all of…
How Malaysian Politics Shaped Chinese Real Estate Deals and Economic Development
This paper examines how a high-end real estate development that caters to Chinese entrepreneurs became caught up in divisive Malaysian…
Maritime Competition in the Indian Ocean
This document discusses how engagements and interests in the region should last beyond the news cycles and despite China competition…
China’s Activities and Influence in South and Central Asia
This document examines how although China is dangling economic incentives in front of the Taliban, it does so to extract…
Reimagining Nuclear Arms Control: A Comprehensive Approach
To try to find common ground, this report presents nine detailed practical measures that—implemented individually or as part of a…
China’s discourse power operations in the Global South
An overview of Chinese activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East
Small satellites: The implications for national security
The small satellites revolution, or the commercial-led launch of smaller and lower-cost satellites, is impacting space security. This Forward Defense…
Chinese discourse power: Ambitions and reality in the digital domain
As China’s military and economic power has grown, so has its ambition to shape global norms to suit its priorities.…