Breaking the Circuit: US-China Semiconductor Controls
In October 2022, the Biden administration introduced export controls to limit China’s access to advanced US semiconductors and technologies,...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Breaking the Circuit: US-China Semiconductor Controls
A nation must think before it acts.
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Is Change on the Horizon? Japan’s Domestic Politics
Since its creation in 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the Japanese Diet, or parliament, winning a...
China’s Defiant Chip Strategy
On October 17, 2022, at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping called...
A New Chapter of Cross-Strait Relations Following the 2024 Taiwanese Elections
Lifting the Eight-Year Curse and the Opinion of the Taiwanese Since the first democratic elections were held in 1996,...
Equatorial Guinea: A Case Study in the Impact of the US-China Rivalry in Africa
Equatorial Guinea is a country that was freed from colonial rule but never truly escaped the influence of the...
The Libyan Political Crisis: Implication for Human Trafficking
Background For the eighth year in a row, the Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report labeled Libya as...
China’s Challenge to the International Economic Order
The United States has led the international economic order for the last seventy-eight years, with only the Soviet Union...
Testing European Unity on Ukraine
Ukraine’s counteroffensive appears to be stalling. Part of this derives from Western expectations that Ukraine would continue to make...
China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy: A Blueprint for Technological Superiority
In an effort to transform the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into the most technologically advanced military in the world,...
How Is the Philippines Preparing for Conflict in the South China Sea?
On February 2, 2023, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III announced the temporary return of American troops to four new...