Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

China’s Development of Hypersonic Missiles and Thought on Hypersonic Defense (Holmes Liao, The Jamestown Foundation)

Hypersonic weapons are defined as able to travel at speeds above Mach 5 and can be broadly classified into two types: hypersonic glide vehicles...

Win Some, Lose Some: China’s Campaign for Global Media Influence (William Yuen Yee, The Jamestown Foundation)

In 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping instructed the state-owned China Global Television Network (CGTN) to “tell China’s story well” (讲好中国的故事, jiang hao zhongguo de gushi)...

Opportunities and Challenges for China’s Plans in Afghanistan (Syed Fazl-e Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

In a September meeting between China’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu and Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, China declared that its first...

Far From a Panopticon, Social Credit Focuses on Legal Violations (Jeremy Daum, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two new pieces of draft authority on China’s social credit system, directories of data inputs and punitive outputs from the General Office of the...

In China’s Shifting Historical Narrative, “War of Resistance” with Japan Retains Key Role (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

Last month, China commemorated the 90th anniversary of the September 18 incident— the false flag railway explosion that sparked Imperial Japan’s invasion of Manchuria...

Kremlin Publicizes Its View on Europe’s Energy Crisis (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Kremlin is skillfully exploiting a European energy crisis caused in part by flawed European policies. On October 6, at the TTF Hub in...

Russian Authorities Expand and Tighten Clampdown on Opposition (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 28, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB—one of the main successor organizations of the Soviet KGB) published an official order, Number 376,...

India’s Cautious and Calculated Approach to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan (Animesh Roul, The Jamestown Foundation)

More than a month after Taliban forces stormed Afghanistan, the self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan (IEA) has yet to gain international political recognition. All...

Houthi Militants in Ansar Allah Move Toward Marib in Yemen (Michael Horton, The Jamestown Foundation)

After a brief lull in fighting, the rebels of the Yemeni Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, are closer than they have ever been to surrounding...

Ukraine Expanding Space Program, Plans 2022 Moon Launch (John C. K. Daly, The Jamestown Foundation)

Interest in privatizing space operations by Western companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic has now reached the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, which,...

How New Are the ‘New People’ in Russia’s Parliament? (Vadim Shtepa, The Jamestown Foundation)

One of the sensations of the September 17–19 elections in Russia—on the whole absolutely predictable—was the entry of the New People party into the...

War Games Shine Light on Deep-Running Iran-Azerbaijan Tensions (Rahim Rahimov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 21, 2021, Iran kicked off military drills near the Azerbaijani districts of Fizuli, Jebrayil and Zangilan, which Azerbaijan had de-occupied last year,...

Hopes for Solution to Belarus’s Political Crisis Derailed Again (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 30, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka gave an hour-and-seven-minutes-long interview to CNN (President.gov.by, September 30). He agreed to speak under the condition that the cable...

The Realities of Russian Military Shipbuilding (Part One) (Andriy Ryzhenko, The Jamestown Foundation)

In the last decade, Russia has increasingly sought to show off its muscles to the rest of the world. Extensive Russian propaganda has focused...

Clashes Intensify Between Moscow and Circassians on Key Issues (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The range of issues on which Moscow and the Circassian nation are in conflict is expanding, and the Russian government, along with its agents...

Ukrainian Anti-Oligarch Law Inadvertently Shines Spotlight on Russian-Linked Members of Presidential Entourage (Mykola Vorobiov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 22, someone fired shots at the car of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first aide, Serhiy Shefir. The attack unfolded near the village...