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Matthew P. Funaiole, et al. | 2023.11.17
China is quietly deepening its influence along the Bay of Bengal, intimately linked to Beijing’s expanding overseas interests. Commercial satellite imagery reveals that China has made significant progress on a naval base it is constructing for Bangladesh’s military. The base houses a pair of submarines that Dhaka received from Beijing two years before ground broke at the facility. China has likewise transferred a submarine to neighboring Myanmar to aid the embattled military regime.
Michal Meidan, et al. | 2023.11.16
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused attention on energy supply chains and contributed to growing unease in the West about the fact that supply chains for the commodities necessary for the global energy transition are highly concentrated in China (or under Chinese control).
Patrick Hinton | 2023.11.14
British military exercise, Salisbury Plain Training Area, England, 2016: Our convoy set off from its departure point in the dead of night.
Olivia Allison and Gonzalo Saiz | 2023.11.10
Efforts to align third countries with sanctions against Russia will only succeed when the private networks facilitating circumvention are understood and countered.
Emily Ferris | 2023.11.09
Understanding how Russia constructs its energy security and foreign policies is essential to anticipating how it might behave in international forums, particularly on challenging issues such as environmental and energy security.
Andrew Cainey | 2023.11.08
China poses an “epoch-defining and systemic challenge with implications for almost every area of government policy and the everyday lives of British people”, according to the UK’s March 2023 Integrated Review Refresh.
Isabella Antinozzi | 2023.11.07
The Russian invasion of Ukraine increased the European Union’s (EU) ambitions in security in defence as well as member states’ appetite for EU-led solutions in this field.
Emily Ferris | 2023.11.07
As the war in Gaza distracts the West from its support for Ukraine, Russia is seeking to exploit the situation by positioning itself as a reasonable broker that has the ear of both Israel and Hamas.
Tobias Borck | 2023.11.07
Saudi Arabia is set to remain one of the most influential players in global oil and energy markets. Understanding – and taking seriously – its evolving strategic calculus must therefore be a key task for policymakers in the UK and across Europe as they seek to safeguard their countries’ energy security.
David Gioe and Alexander Molnar | 2023.11.02
How does the technology aid fake news and narratives – particularly in the run-up to 2024 for elections in many Western democracies?
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