Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

(China) Directions Forward for Chinese Rare Earths After the Two Sessions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Elizabeth Chen Following heightened U.S.-China tensions last year, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the “Draft Regulations on Rare Earth Management”...
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(China) A New Step Forward in PLA Professionalization (The Jamestown Foundation)

Joel Wuthnow, Phillip C. Saunders A linchpin of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s transformation into a “world-class military” is whether it can recruit, cultivate, and retain...
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(China) China’s Xinjiang Propaganda and United Front Work in Turkey: Part Two (The Jamestown Foundation)

Ondřej Klimeš The accelerated repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities inside and outside of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) since 2016 has highlighted...
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(China/Nepal) Is the Growth of Sino-Nepal Relations Reducing Nepal’s Autonomy? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Dhanwati Yadav Commonly held economic theory generally suggests that foreign aid benefits the recipient. But so far, China’s bilateral relations with Nepal—which are based upon...
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(Armenia) Prime Minister Pashinian Stages Own Coup Against Armenia’s Military (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Armenia’s military top brass has demanded that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government resign “for having brought the country to disaster.” https://jamestown.org/program/prime-minister-pashinian-stages-own-coup-against-armenias-military/
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(Russia) Moscow’s Plans for New Kind of Aircraft Carrier Unlikely to Be Realized (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble In late February, TASS reported that Russian designers have come up with “a new class of ship.” The vessel, nicknamed the Varan, will function as an...
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(Russia/Ukraine) Russia Escalates Its Proxy War in Eastern Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer The ceasefire on the line of control in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine is unraveling. In July 2020, both sides—the Ukrainian...
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(Ukraine) Mikheil Saakashvili’s Activity Strains Georgian-Ukrainian Relations (The Jamestown Foundation)

Giorgi Menabde On March 5, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed the head of the Executive Committee on Reforms, Mikheil Saakashvili, from his position on the...
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(Russia/Arctic) Russia’s Digitalization of the Arctic Region: Plans and Achievements (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin The “Strategy for the Development of the Russian Arctic Zone and Provision of National Security Through 2035” (Pravo.gov.ru, October 26, 2020) highlights, among...
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(Russia) Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities as a Threat to GPS (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott According to Russian military media, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has expressed growing confidence in the Armed Forces’ electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. https://jamestown.org/program/russias-electronic-warfare-capabilities-as-a-threat-to-gps/
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(Russia) Moscow Angered but Not Deterred by Newest Round of Western Sanctions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer After repeatedly and unsuccessfully pleading with the Kremlin to release imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the European Union and the United States, in...
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(Russia/Iran) Including Iran in Moscow-Led Economic Group Will Upend Former Soviet Space (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Reports claiming that Russia will, within a few weeks, welcome Iran as a new member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) may be...
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(Kyrgyzstan) Kyrgyzstan Preparing for Constitutional Reform in Search for Stability (The Jamestown Foundation)

George Voloshin On January 11, the leader of Kyrgyzstan’s most recent revolution, Sadyr Zhaparov, won the presidency in what turned out to be a largely...
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(Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey) Azerbaijan, Turkey Watching Armenia’s Political Crisis (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Viewed from Baku and Ankara, the political conflict in Armenia pits military and civilian nationalists unreconciled to defeat in the Second Karabakh War...
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(Russia) Moscow Prioritizes the Development of Hypersonic Weapons (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott Since Moscow’s entry into the civil war in Syria in September 2015, its experimentation with high-precision cruise missile strikes has served to boost...
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(Belarus) Sochi Summit Contra the West’s Belarus Policies (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka landed in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, February 19, and left on Tuesday, February 23. https://jamestown.org/program/sochi-summit-contra-the-wests-belarus-policies/
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