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| Sep 9, 2026 | Carme Artigas se incorpora a Nazca para impulsar su estrategia de inversión en tecnologías deep tech y de uso dual | NAZCA CAPITAL, gestora de fondos de capital privado enfocada en invertir en empresas no cotizadas, ha incorporado a Carme Artigas como Operating Partner. Artigas presidirá el nuevo Comité Tecnológico de la gestora y se sumará a su Consejo A... |
| Aug 1, 2026 | BeiDou Software Upgrade Delivers Sub-Meter Civilian Precision With No New Launches | By Earl Bensen
Published: Aug 01 2026, 9:19 AM EDT
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| Jul 31, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1B From Pension Funds in Fusion Industry First | By Daniel Butler
Published: Jul 31 2026, 3:42 PM EDT
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| Jul 26, 2026 | Doomsday Hall H Footage: Doom Sentinels Dramatize AI Alignment Core Failure Mode | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Jul 26 2026, 6:14 AM EDT
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| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Energy Consumption Is Raising Household Bills: Efficiency Gains Cannot Reverse It | By Adrian Parham
Published: Jun 29 2026, 5:25 AM EDT
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| Jun 26, 2026 | Fusion Energy Hits a Materials Wall: DOE Roadmap Targets Engineering Gaps With 2030s Deadline | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jun 26 2026, 6:02 AM EDT
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| May 19, 2026 | Gundam Wing Returns as Orbital Metal Printing and Brain Implants Move From Fiction to Working Hardware | By William Chan
Published: May 19 2026, 17:20 PM EDT
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| May 17, 2026 | The Mandalorian and Grogu Depicts Real Ion Propulsion: NASA’s Psyche Used at Mars Two Days Before LA Premiere | By William Chan
Published: May 17 2026, 11:35 AM EDT
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| May 16, 2026 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 11 May, 2026 | Back to Publications Greenpeace Embarks on Expedition to Map Arctic Deep-Sea Life
High North News reported on May 13 that Greenpeace launched an expedition to map Arctic deep sea ecosystems. Researchers Paco Cárdenas (Uppsala University) an... |
| May 14, 2026 | CNBC Daily Open: Trump and Xi exchange compliments on Day 1 in Beijing | High-stakes U.S. and China summit starts with both Presidents sounding an optimistic tone about relations.
The bilateral meeting between President Xi and President Trump ran longer than expected.
There is speculation that U.K. Prime Ministe... |
| May 14, 2026 | Xi warns Trump: Mishandling Taiwan will put U.S.-China relationship in ‘great jeopardy’ | Trump and Xi opened a two-day summit in Beijing focused on trade and security.
Taiwan, Iran and artificial intelligence are on the agenda, plus tariffs and rare earths.
Xi asked whether the U.S. and China could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” ... |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Middle Power Deterrence: The Strategic Case for a Canada-Nordic Defence and Governance Alliance to Ensure a 21st Century Pax Arctica | Back to Publications
Russian troops stationed at the Northern Clover military base in Russia’s Arctic, standing as a potent security challenge to the Arctic’s democratic middle powers. Photo: Ministry of Defense of Russia
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| Apr 14, 2026 | Towards a Shared Arctic Vision: Japan and the Nordic States in an Interconnected World | Back to Publications
Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, with Speaker of the House of Representative Nukaga Fukushiro in 2025: Photo: Japan’s House of Representatives (Shugiin) The Arctic Institute Japan Series 2026
As Arctic ice melts a... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Когда вычисления станут бесконечными: разбор интервью Илона Маска от 5.02.26 | Преамбула. Человек в очереди
В 1937 году дальнобойщик Малком МакЛин простоял несколько часов на причале в Нью-Джерси — ждал, пока грузчики вручную перекладывают тысячи ящиков с его грузовика на борт корабля. Разгрузка шла медленно: каждая е... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations | If you’ve spent any time in my Section 230 myth-debunking guide, you know that most bad takes on the law come from people who haven’t read it. But lately I keep running into a different kind of bad take—one that often comes from people who ... |
| Feb 1, 2026 | AstraZeneca is listing in New York, as Big Pharma balances the huge U.S. market with China’s tempting innovation | AstraZeneca has announced it’s investing $15 billions in China, and said it is partnering with a Chinese biotech to develop weight-loss drugs.
The developments come at a critical time for the pharma industry as companies are increasingly lo... |
| Jan 24, 2026 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 19 January, 2026 | Back to Publications NATO and US Agree on Framework for Arctic Security
As reported by Reuters on January 22, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that US President Donald Trump has agreed to a framework deal on Greenland that would ... |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Trump’s Greenland gambit puts China on edge after Venezuela operation | Trump’s Greenland push sharpens U.S.-China tensions as Beijing warned against Arctic unilateralism.
China’s Arctic ambitions span minerals, shipping routes and research infrastructure, mirroring the U.S.
China has eyes on Arctic maritime ro... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | What if? “Strategic Competition” vs. “Selective Cooperation” | Back to Publications
April 2025 Central Arctic Ocean Roundtable event at Tongji University. Photo: Min Pan
A prominent Western narrative portrays China as eagerly pursuing economic and strategic goals in the Arctic. U.S. Defense Department ... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Don't believe the hype: The modest reality of the Saudi-Pakistani defense pact | The Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement, signed on September 17, 2025, is a significant regional development. MEI will be publishing several articles in the coming days that provide different perspectives on the defense pact.
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| Aug 22, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 18 August, 2025 | Back to Publications Chinese Sabotage Ship Spotted in the Arctic Again
As reported by The Barents Observer on August 19, the Chinese container ship Newnew Polar Bear, which was involved in a sabotage incident near the region in 2023, has re... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 23 June, 2025 | Back to Publications
Take Five is taking a short summer break and will return with fresh insights on August 22. Greenlanders Celebrate National Day
As reported by ABC News on June 21, Greenlanders celebrated their National Day while marking... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | It’s not just AI — China’s quickly gaining an edge over the U.S. in biotech | Out of five critical tech sectors, “China has the most immediate opportunity to overtake the United States in biotechnology,” the Harvard Belfer Center said in a new report.
Just as China is developing its biotech sector, reports from the U... |
| Dec 24, 2024 | The Rise of Self-Hosted AI: A New Era for Businesses | In the digital age, data is the new oil. Companies are realizing that to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), they must keep their data close to home. The trend is shifting from cloud computing back to self-hosting. This retur... |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Второе пришествие мейнфреймов. Всё больше компаний хотят запускать ИИ у себя в офисе | Мейнфрейм IBM z16 во время лабораторных тестов в 2022 г, источник
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| Jul 8, 2024 | The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did. | Enlarge
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Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
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| Apr 29, 2024 | To the Moon, Mars and beyond: Could China’s soaring space ambitions be hampered by earthly factors? | Listen to this article
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| Mar 22, 2024 | Chinese Tech Giants Racing to Dominate AI: Tencent and Kuaishou Push Next-Gen Language Models | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 22 March 2024, 10:03 am
Chinese tech giants like Tencent Holdings and Kuaishou Technology are advancing and using large language models (LLMs), which drive emerging AI technologies, as the US-China tech war intensifie... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Africa: Meta - Protect LGBT People From Digital Targeting | Beirut — New #SecureOurSocials Campaign Urges Transparency from Facebook, Instagram
Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagra... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | How Australia’s seven-year cybersecurity plan can succeed | Source: Unsplash/ Dan Nelson article-article-body
After lengthy deliberation, the Australian government has released its 2023–2030 Cyber Security Strategy, which aims to make Australia one of the most cyber-secure nations in the world by 20... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | Can the U.S. Use Its Long Arm to Stop a Technology Hemorrhage? | In 2014, U.S. officials described Chinese national Karl Lee as the “principal supplier” to Iran’s ballistic missile program. Pursued for nearly two decades by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement, Lee’s network was responsible for illicitl... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that | Dr. Ashlie L Burkart, MD is the chief scientific officer at Germin8 Ventures, a venture capital firm that impact invests in the food and agricultural domain, and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and Interna... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Two Visions of Digital Sovereignty | If bipartisan agreement in the United States is rare, in at least one area, it is increasingly clear: “economic security is national security.” As global events have pushed Europe and the United States closer together, the convergence of th... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Madeleine Para and Emerson Sturgis: As Earth Day approaches, climate solutions have never been more appealing | By Madeleine Para and Emerson Sturgis
As we gear up to celebrate Earth Day, it’s now easier than ever to reap the rewards of embracing a cleaner, greener world.
The annual Spring event, which reminds us to protect the planet that sustains u... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | As The Future Of Work Unfolds, Policy Innovator Nathalie Gazzaneo Is Steering Ahead With A Focus On Collaboration, Equity, And Humanity | Noah Miller, Tech Times 14 April 2023, 11:04 am
(Photo : Nathalie Gazzaneo)
Emerging technologies, demand for new skills, tight job markets, and other factors are drastically changing how people think about and participate in the workforce.... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | What's in the leaked Pentagon documents that could hurt Ukraine and has US officials panicking | Gen. Mark Milley speaks at a Pentagon press conference in March. Celal Gunes/Getty Images
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A trove of secret Pentagon documents has surfaced online in recent weeks.
The FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, an airman in the National Guard, ... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Climate Change Advisory Opinion Requests: Risk and Reward | On March 29, the U.N. General Assembly will consider a draft resolution on a “Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.” The Republic of Vanuatu, a... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check? | Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted by AI to collectively decide on the way... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Programmable Biology Puts Biotech on the Geopolitical Agenda | In September, Jake Sullivan—President Biden’s national security adviser—announced that the U.S. government expects biotechnology to play an “outsized importance over the coming decade” in the context of geopolitical competition, because of ... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Take a look at the J-15 fighter jet, the $61 million copy of a Soviet plane picked to wage war from China's aircraft carriers | Chinese J-15 fighter jets on the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier. Contributor/AFP/STR/China OUT/Getty Images
China's touts the J-15 as its first locally made carrier-borne fighter jet.
The jet is an unlicensed copy of a Soviet-made Su... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Former CIA official says it would be 'terribly irresponsible' for Western leaders to treat Putin's threats of nuclear war as 'empty' or mere 'saber-rattling' | There is no "military reason" for Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in Russia's conflict with Ukraine, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA Moscow station chief, said. Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Pho... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | China had a plan to dominate tech and become the world's most powerful country. It's all gone wrong. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Beijing is furious. China's leadership knows that it is losing the race for the future of technology. It is a race that could ma... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Twitter expands its crowdsourced fact-checking program ‘Birdwatch’ ahead of US midterms | On the heels of a report detailing how Twitter had once accidentally allowed a conspiracy theorist into its invite-only fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, the company is today announcing the program will expand to users across the U.... |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Biden’s Economic Agenda Is The Most Anti-Growth Of The Last 40 Years | Concept of economic recession during the coronavirus outbreak in United States, downtrend stock with ... [+] red arrow and The Statue of Liberty with mask background getty |
| Aug 26, 2022 | It Is the Player, but Mostly the Game | Earlier this summer, the United States offered to free convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for Moscow’s release of two American nationals: Women’s National Basketball Association star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | Implications for Taiwan of the divergence in narratives on China’s future | A stark contrast in narratives about China’s future is emerging inside and outside of China. This is partly a function of the dramatic constriction in the flow of people and ideas into and out of China, owing to China’s COVID-19 quarantine ... |
| Jul 17, 2022 | The History of Countering Violent Extremism Tends to Repeat. It Shouldn’t. | Editor’s Note: Political leaders at times launch programs to counter violent extremism, but those programs rarely get off the ground. Bennett Clifford and Seamus Hughes of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism describe the ris... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Semiconductor Dependency Imperils American Security | Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. , gave a rare interview in April. He believes Congress’s current effort to provide $50 billion in subsidies to American semiconductor companies, in the hope that they will beco... |
| May 24, 2022 | Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work | A few weeks ago, I woke up unusually early in the morning in Brooklyn, got in my car, and headed up the Hudson River to the small Westchester County community of Yorktown Heights. There, amid the rolling hills and old farmhouses, sits the T... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Recent Developments in AI and National Security: What You Need to Know | What Is AI and Why Does It Matter for National Security?
Artificial intelligence (AI)—the ability for a machine to maximize its chance of achieving its goals by acting based on data collected from its environment—is emerging as the defining... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Why did a Peking University paper on China’s tech deficiencies get deleted? | |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Understanding the Offense’s Systemwide Advantage in Cyberspace | The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released on Dec. 11 a statement on the massive log4j vulnerability, one of the worst the internet has ever seen. This is just the latest in a string of some of the most brazen and dangero... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | China Will Soon Lead the U.S. in Tech | Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns announced in October that the agency is establishing two new major “mission centers,” one focusing on China and the other on frontier technologies. This action reflects his judgment that China... |
| Nov 23, 2021 | The U.K. as a Responsible Cyber Power: Brilliant Branding or Empty Bluster? | The current U.K. Conservative government has an impressive record on one particular thing: punchy but highly malleable slogans. These range from “get Brexit done” to “levelling up,” not to mention the many COVID-19 mantras emblazoned on lec... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Managing the Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of Artificial Intelligence | Last week, Andy Grotto and I published a new working paper on policy responses to the risk that artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially those dependent on machine learning (ML), can be vulnerable to intentional attack. As the Natio... |
| Nov 7, 2021 | Over-the-Horizon Does Not Have to Mean Next Door | Editor’s Note: U.S. forces have left Afghanistan, and the Biden administration is now relying on an “over-the-horizon” approach to manage any terrorist problems that persist. The Center for a New American Security’s Stacie Pettyjohn examine... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | US military exit from Syria unlikely anytime soon, officials say | The United States will not be withdrawing its roughly 900 troops from northeast Syria any time soon, despite mounting speculation it would do so following its much-maligned August pull-out from Afghanistan, according to officials with knowl... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | China cyber attacks: the current threat landscape | Oct 26, 2021
Editor's note: This post, originally by Adam Hlavek on Jan. 10, 2021, includes updates dated March 1, April 6, 2021, May 28, 2021, and September 7, 2021
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| Oct 22, 2021 | Ethereum: The great handshake | Ashley Tolbert Contributor
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| Oct 7, 2021 | What Biden’s Top China Theorist Gets Wrong | A review of Rush Doshi, “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order” (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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By one telling, the tensions and troubles that plague the U.S.-China relationship today can be traced back to th... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | China Intensifies Cryptocurrency Crackdown | On Sept. 24, China announced a blanket prohibition on all cryptocurrency transactions and mining. Citing concern for national security and “safety of people’s assets,” 10 government agencies announced the crackdown in an effort to clamp dow... |
| Aug 22, 2021 | The Failure of Counterterrorism After the Civil War | Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from my long, scholarly article, “White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States,” published in International Security. Additional references (often to books that are ... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Cloudflare : Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo | Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyber attacks. June is a busy month for us at Cloudflare, with the a... |
| May 21, 2021 | Revisiting Ukraine’s Nuclear Past Will Not Help Secure Its Future | By mid-April 2021, the Russian military had amassed more than 100,000 troops at Ukraine’s border. Although some have since been removed, the bulk of Russian forces still remain. Russia’s intentions are unclear, but the menacing specter of a... |
| May 11, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Computers Will Soon Be Hacking Us. If They Aren't Already. | Bruce Schneier joins us to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) hacking in all its forms. He’s particularly interested in ways AI will hack humans, essentially preying on the rough rules of thumb programmed into our wetware—that big-eyed... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | The Week That Will Be | Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, April 19, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host an online event on sustainable U.S. presence in the Middle East. Daniel Magruder Jr., fellow at Brookings, w... |
| Feb 28, 2021 | What the UAE Weapons Deal Says About the United States and Its Alliances | Editor’s Note: Various U.S. administrations have long wanted U.S. allies to do more, but in many parts of the world the most logical partners are authoritarian states with different interests than those of the United States. Using the propo... |
| Feb 21, 2021 | Hezbollah Amid Lebanese Collapse | Editor’s Note: The Lebanese Hezbollah has long been one of the Middle East’s most dangerous actors, and it has deeply embedded itself in Lebanon’s political system and economy. The Middle East Institute’s Bilal Saab details the different re... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives | Johannes Lenhard Contributor
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| Dec 10, 2020 | The Future of NATO | President-elect Joe Biden will face several foreign policy challenges come January. Amid the myriad issues, the former vice president has consistently prioritized his desire to reaffirm the United States’s commitment to the North Atlantic T... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Space Cybersecurity in the Age of Defending Forward | On Sept. 4, the Trump administration released a policy directive detailing the United States’s cybersecurity principles for “space systems.” Emphasizing the importance of space systems for communication, science, economic prosperity, and na... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Preventing and Countering Election-Motivated Violence Without Causing Panic | At first glance, the terrorist threat that recently captivated the nation—a thwarted attempt by a militia cell to kidnap Governors Gretchen Whitmer and Ralph Northam—may appear to be an anomaly—a one-off plot hatched by a fringe group influ... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | What to Do About Xinjiang | Editor’s Note: The author will be taking questions live at 12:00 noon Eastern time on Wednesday, Oct. 21, as a part of our new project, Lawfare Live. Events under the Lawfare Live umbrella will be offered exclusively to Lawfare supporters o... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Jane’s Fighting Nerds | In our 328th episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart is joined by Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog), Sultan Meghji @sultanmeghji), and Nate Jones (@n8jones81). The Belfer Center has produced a distinctly idiosyncratic report ranking the world... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | The 9/11 Commission Report, the Pandemic and the Future of Homeland Security | Lawfare has from time to time allowed me, as a longtime contributor, to use this space to acknowledge the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and reflect on some aspect of the 9/11 Commission Report, the definitive account... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | Coronavirus: Fake Facts Are Flying Around; Experts Plan To Debunk Them | Tiziana Celine, Tech Times 02 April 2020, 11:04 am
The spread of fake and real coronavirus data is being tracked by scientists to peer stories that are getting the most attention on social media.
The coronavirus outbreak has sparked what th... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Layered Cyber Deterrence: A Strategy for Securing Connectivity in the 21st Century | Editor's note: This article is part of a series of short articles by analysts involved in the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, among others, highlighting and commenting upon aspects of the commission's findings and conclusion.
Every day, hea... |
| Jan 26, 2020 | “Real” Deterrence? Identifying the Trump Administration’s Iran Strategy | Editor’s Note: In the aftermath of the Soleimani killing, what the United States seeks to accomplish regarding Iran is puzzling, with the Trump administration seeking to leave the region but also to deter Iran from a range of dangerous beha... |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Is Deterrence Restored with Iran? | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Just after the United States killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo justified the attack by claiming: “The entire strategy has bee... |
| Jan 19, 2020 | The Age of Open Assassination | Editor’s Note: The killing of Qassem Soleimani is only the latest U.S. killing of enemies with terrorism links—a process that began with President George W. Bush, accelerated under President Barack Obama, and now has expanded to include sta... |
| Nov 28, 2019 | Will the future of work be ethical? | Greg Epstein Contributor
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| Sep 27, 2019 | U.S., China Move Toward October Trade Talks | President Trump on Sept. 12 announced that the U.S. would delay tariff increases on $250 billion of Chinese imports until Oct. 15, creating a possible opening for the two sides to reach an agreement during a round of negotiations scheduled ... |
| Aug 29, 2019 | U.S. Social Media Companies Block Accounts From China Over Hong Kong Disinformation | Twitter, Facebook, and Google Block Accounts Over Hong Kong Disinformation Campaign
On Aug. 19, Twitter issued a public statement revealing the existence of a “significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong ... |
| Aug 15, 2019 | Trump Backs Off From New Tariffs Amidst Heightened Trade Tensions | On Aug. 12, the Trump administration announced a delay in plans to impose new tariffs on Chinese imports. President Trump had previously said that starting on Sept. 1, the United States would issue a “small additional tariff of 10 percent o... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Sinotech: U.S. and Chinese Negotiations Make First Direct Contact Since G-20 | U.S. and Chinese Negotiators Make Contact Following the G-20 Summit
On July 9, U.S. and Chinese negotiators held a phone call in the first instance of direct bilateral contact since President Trump announced the resumption of trade negotiat... |
| May 8, 2019 | SinoTech: U.S. Threatens Tariff Hike on Chinese Goods as Tech-Related Trade Issues Remain Unresolved | U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin concluded the 10th round of U.S.-China trade talks with Vice Premier Liu He on May 1. President Trump initially cast the negotiations as a success, but then t... |
| Apr 26, 2019 | Call for Papers: Homeland Security Project at the Belfer Center | Homeland security issues have emerged as among the most critical facing our country. Massive hurricanes devastated large swaths of the United States in 2017, the recovery from which is not over. Hostile governments and criminal groups have ... |
| Apr 24, 2019 | Toward an Information Operations Kill Chain | Cyberattacks don’t magically happen; they involve a series of steps. And far from being helpless, defenders can disrupt the attack at any of those steps. This framing has led to something called the “cybersecurity kill chain”: a way of thin... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | SinoTech: U.S. and China Reach Agreement on Enforcement Provisions, Edging Closer to a Trade Deal | Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin revealed last week on CNBC that U.S. and Chinese negotiators have reached agreement on an “enforcement mechanism” as part of negotiations over a bilateral trade deal. Mnuchin specified that both sides “will... |
| Mar 22, 2019 | A Post-Human Rights Era? A Reappraisal and a Response to Critics | The growing challenges both to international human rights law and to the international legal system as a whole count as old news by now. The sources of these threats are many: the rise in populism and nationalism, the growth in power and as... |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Five Initial Thoughts on the New Zealand Terrorist Attack | This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
The terrorist attacks on the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in New Zealand, which so far have killed 49 people and led to dozens more injuries, are only the latest in anti-Muslim right-wing vi... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Recent Developments | On March 25-29, the U.N.’s Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) will meet for the third consecutive year to discuss developments and strategies in the field of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). As a subsidiary body of the Convention ... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | INSTEX: A Blow to U.S. Sanctions? | In January 2019, France, Germany, and Britain announced the creation of a new payment-processing system designed to keep alive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran deal. The Instrument in Support of Trade E... |
| Feb 28, 2019 | What to Make of Cyber Command’s Operation Against the Internet Research Agency | On February 26, Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reported what had been speculated for some weeks: that U.S. Cyber Command undertook an offensive cyber campaign to protect the 2018 midterm elections. An unnamed government official tol... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | France’s New Offensive Cyber Doctrine | Since its November 2018 announcement of the Paris Call, a code of conduct for cyber space, France has turned to the offensive. On Jan. 18, French armed forces minister Florence Parly unveiled the country’s first doctrine for offensive cyber... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Thinking About Risks From AI: Accidents, Misuse and Structure | World leaders have woken up to the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year. Billions of dollars in governmental funding have been announced, dozens of hearings have been held, and nearly 20 national plans have been adop... |
| Feb 4, 2019 | Water Wars: Search and Rescue | China’s state-owned Xinhua News has reported the opening of a maritime rescue facility on Yongshu Reef (Fiery Cross Reef), one of the artificial islands it has built in the Spratly Islands region of the South China Sea.
In its report, Xinhu... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | SinoTech: U.S. and China Hold Trade Talks Amid Backdrop of Tech Tensions and Initial Chinese Concessions | On the U.S.-China trade war front, the first week of 2019 has brought cause for cautious optimism. Midlevel trade talks between American and Chinese officials were extended for an additional day and concluded on the afternoon of Jan. 9 in B... |
| Jan 4, 2019 | The Future of Vulnerabilities Equities Processes Around the World | As governments increasingly find themselves needing information from networked sources for law enforcement, intelligence, and military purposes, one of the most difficult dilemmas they face concerns the use of so-called zero day vulnerabili... |
