Day: May 17, 2021

Unified Threats Need Decentralized Deterrence Last month, the U.S. intelligence community released its worldwide Annual Threats Assessment. The report covered the usual range of risks facing the United States and the globe, from drug trafficking to regional instability to cyberattacks. Yet front and center in the intelligence community’s assessment—listed ahead […]

Huawei Is Bad for Business Over the last few years, the Chinese firm Huawei has become an unexpected symbol of technological threat, with the United States rallying allies to limit the company’s global scope. Although it is a private firm, Chinese law and Huawei’s extensive ties to the state have […]

‘We Can Turn It Around’ There is perhaps no greater example of a changed approach to global affairs in Washington than U.S. President Joe Biden’s focus on climate change. Having rejoined the legally binding climate change treaty known as the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, Biden took […]

Stopping Drug Patents Has Stopped Pandemics Before U.S. President Joe Biden’s waiver of patent protections for U.S.-made COVID-19 drugs and vaccines is a historic milestone and a moral imperative. It is also an overdue acknowledgement of recent experiences. Contrary to prognostications from the pharmaceutical sector that side-stepping the Trade-Related Aspects […]

The World Might Want China’s Rules In his address to Congress last week, U.S. President Joe Biden pulled a page from former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s playbook and tied an ambitious set of domestic programs to the need to compete more effectively with China. Just as Eisenhower convinced the country […]

In a massive crackdown on ‘historical nihilists’, the Chinese government has asked various websites to delete over 2 million posts critical of its past. The move comes ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 100th anniversary in July in an attempt to remove content containing “harmful” discussion of history. The […]