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Xiangshan Forum shows the muscle behind China’s diplomacy (Sophie Wushuang Yi – East Asia Forum)

China’s efforts to build an alternative security platform around the Beijing Xiangshan Forum have gained momentum as its military modernisation accelerates. Demonstrated advances have...

Australia all at sea on submarine cable risks (Jocelinn Kang – Lowy The Interpreter)

Google is laying new submarine cables along Australia’s northern and western approaches. The routes will link to a planned Google AI data centre on...

China’s AI use for cyber espionage shifts cyber focus from detection to trust (Gil Baram – ASPI The Strategist)

The question facing security and technology leaders is no longer whether adversaries will deploy AI agents against their environment. Now, those leaders must ask...

The Changing Character of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism (Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel, Brian Dodwell, Ned Curry – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

The competition between terror movements and counterterrorism forces is an interactive and iterative game, as the actions taken by one side are designed to...

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Repressed Islamic State Affiliates (Daniel Milton – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

It has been more than 10 years since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended the pulpit in the al-Nuri mosque to announce that the group known...

Burden-Sharing with Non-Traditional Counterterrorism Partners (Iselin Brady, Daniel Byman – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

The United States works with an array of counterterrorism partners in efforts to fight global jihadi groups such as al-Qa`ida and the Islamic State....

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis (Kim Cragin – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

This article examines the historical trajectory of “foreign terrorist fighters” associated with the Islamic State and its antecedents, al-Qa`ida and the Arab Afghans. The...

The Financial Dimension of EU Internal Security Threats (Tom Keatinge and Kinga Redlowska – RUSI)

In April 2025, the EU published its updated internal security strategy, ProtectEU, underlining the reality that the lives of European citizens ‘have become less...

Trump’s Strategy Against Venezuelan Gangs is Self-Defeating (Gil Guerra and Emma Isabella Sage – RUSI)

After a series of strikes on nonmilitary vessels in international waters, the Pentagon informed Congress it considers suspected members of Venezuelan gangs to be...

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