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FP China Is Sweeping Up Pacific Island Allies

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…

FP Chinas Crisis Of Confidence

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…

American Enterprise Institute and BENS event: Industry's Role In Geostrategic Competition

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…

Time Chinese Naval Base Cambodia Signals New Era Of Competition In AsiaPacific

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…

event invitation: Bradley Benavides

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…

C4ISRNET How To Put The Joint In JADC2

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…

WoTR Chinas Plan For Digital Dominance

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 Video Made In Beijing Screenshot

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:…

US Dollar and Chinese Yuan currency and national flags

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. …

Mark Gerencser speaks at a panel event

BENS Chairman Joins Panel Discussion on “Great Power Competition”

BENS Chairman Mark Gerencser appeared on the panel discussion “Great Power Competition” at the World Affairs Council of Connecticut’s 2021 Global Security Forum: Competing for the Future. Gerencser was joined by co-panelist…