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China is Sweeping Up Pacific Island Allies —Here’s how Washington can Fight Back
When China, a country of 1.4 billion people, threatened Palau, a Pacific island nation with a population of just 18,000, to switch its diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing or…
China’s Crisis of Confidence
What if the new era of great-power competition was over before it had even begun? Many of today’s fears about a multigeneration conflict with Beijing rest on linear extrapolations of…
Virtual Discussion on Industry’s Role in Geostrategic Competition, co-hosted with AEI
Moderated by retired Army General Joseph Votel, BENS will cohost a timely virtual panel discussion with the American Enterprise Insititute to outline steps private industry should take to ensure the…
A Chinese Naval Base in Cambodia Signals a New Era of Competition in the Asia-Pacific Region
In October 2020, satellite photos showed that the Cambodian government had demolished two American-built facilities at the Southeast Asian nation’s Ream Naval Base—despite Washington offering to renovate them. On June…
Chinese Intelligence Threats and American Business
FBI Counter-Intelligence Division Acting Assistant Director Bradley Benavides joined BENS on June 8 for a virtual discussion of Chinese Intelligence Threats and American business. Benavides emphasized that the People’s Republic…
How to Put the Joint in JACD2
Great power competition is upon us. Our adversaries are prepared for sophisticated conflicts across multiple domains that employ denial of communications and information advantage capabilities. This fundamental shift in warfare…
China’s Plan for Digital Dominance
Digital transformation is all the craze in China. Even the venerable Kweichow Moutai distillery now talks of the new digital processes necessary to brew a smarter liquor. But all of this…
FBI’s Made in Beijing: The Plan for Global Market Domination
The FBI has created a new tool to assist in its mission to identify, expose, prevent, and investigate intelligence activities on U.S. soil. It is a short documentary titled Made in Beijing:…
China’s Real Challenge is Not Military
Vladimir Lenin is popularly believed to have said that “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.” Whether he actually said it or not, the quote aptly fits the situation with China. Since 2016, Apple alone is reported to have invested $275 billion in China. All the world’s iPhones are Chinese-made. …
