Podcast: Dean Cheng on “Russia-China Relations”
One of the notable aspects of the Ukraine war is the support Russia is getting from China. In fact, it is hard to see how Russia could continue the war without China’s support. How...
Category: China
Gold medal for lawfare? Charles Gartland addresses diplomatic statements in the 4th installment of his lawfare series
Today’s post is the fourth installment of Air Force Lt. Col. Charles Gartland’s series exploring dimensions of the concept of “lawfare,” a topic about which I have great interest. Charles is certainly establishing himself...
Guest Post: Steve Heffington on “A More Wholistic View of U.S. Options for Taiwan”
If you haven’t been following America’s rising tensions with China over Taiwan, now is the time to focus on what is an extremely dangerous (indeed, perhaps the most dangerous) situation in the world today. ...
Guest post: Charles Gartland on “Mao’s Magic Weapon”
Today’s guest post is the third in a series by Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles J. Gartland, who is the Law Chair Director at the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School. Lt Col...
Could hyping climate change with warlike rhetoric spur military conflict with China or Russia?
President Biden calls climate change the “existential threat of our time” Indeed, he says it is our “biggest threat to national security,” and he’s made climate change the “center” of his national security policy....
Podcast: Dean Cheng on the “Current Issues in the Challenge of China”
One of the most popular speakers at LENS’ annual national security law conference in recent years has been Mr. Dean Cheng, and this year’s conference – the 26th – was no different. Dean is...
Guest Post: Dean Cheng on “Coming to Terms with the Post-Post-Cold War and the Rise of China”
Today’s post is by my friend and popular LENS conference speaker, Mr. Dean Cheng. Dean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center and the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign...
What the FBI Director told me universities should do to protect against intelligence threats from China
At the Aspen Security Forum this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized China “from a counterintelligence perspective” as representing “in many ways” the “broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country.” ...
Do Duke’s principles and values call for a rethinking of its involvement with China?
In the aftermath of the removal of a memorial of Robert E. Lee from its chapel, Duke University established a “Commission on Memory and History at Duke” that, among other things, is to propose...
