On July 17th, Global China Hub Nonresident Fellow Leland Lazarus published an article on the potential national security concerns of the Chinese-build port in Chancay, Peru in China US Focus. The post Leland Lazarus on the Chinese-built port in Chancay, Peru in China US Focus appeared first on Atlantic Council ..read more

In early June, the US Treasury Department announced a proposed update to Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) rules that would expand the committee’s jurisdiction over foreign real estate purchases. These new rules were announced after several recent high-profile and controversial planned property purchases by initially undisclosed or Chinese buyers, a growing number of state-level restrictions on foreign real estate investments, and increased congressional scrutiny on greenfield investment. These new proposed rules come on the heels of increasing concerns over Chinese ..read more

The communiqué of the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Committee, which concluded on July 18, contains no major policy initiatives to address the country’s near-term growth challenges. This was greeted with a sense of disappointment by Western analysts even though not many of them had expected Chinese leaders to announce a major fiscal package or other measures. Instead, the communiqué reaffirms the CCP’s long-term vision of deepening reform and pursuing modernization—Chinese style—based on the three key pillars of innovation, green energy, and consumption as growth ..read more

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It lacked the drama of this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee: no country music, no bandaged ears, no delegates wearing “Make America Great Again” baseball caps. Yet the Third Plenum of the Twentieth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party this past week in Beijing was perhaps more consequential, as a doubling down of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s determination to put party and state control ahead of economic growth and consumers. In that spirit, the meeting’s communiqué deployed the Chinese word for persist, jianchi, seventeen times. As the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecc ..read more

Subscribe to the Global China Hub Amidst the assertions of commitment to Ukraine’s defense and eventual membership in NATO, conversations at last week’s NATO summit here in sweltering Washington, DC featured another hot topic: China. The final communiqué, approved by all 32 NATO members, took the unprecedented step of calling China “a decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine, noting how this is undermining China’s interests and reputation in Europe. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg underscored that China cannot have it both ways, sponsoring the largest war in Europe in recent memor ..read more

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As perhaps the most pro-Kremlin and anti-Western leader of any EU or NATO member state, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban makes for an unlikely mediator in efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. This did not prevent the Hungarian leader from embarking on an ambitious series of international visits in early July that he dubbed as a “peace mission.” In the first ten days of July, Orban visited four different countries on three continents, during which he claimed to have held twelve hours of talks with world leaders. Orban’s intensive bout of shuttle diplomacy began with a visit to Kyiv on J ..read more

Download PDF Table of contents Abstract Introduction What is the NC3 system? The nature of NC3 Current NC3 missions and space systems How the attributes of space and space systems shape space security Geopolitical challenges to the current NC3 system Counterspace threats to space-based NC3 Modernization plans for space-based NC3 Conclusion and recommendations About the authors Acknowledgements If I take nuclear command and control and spread it across 400 satellites … how many satellites do I have to shoot down now to take out the US nuclear command and control?” Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Ch ..read more