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Cybersecurity

Cyber Week in Review: April 9, 2021

Data leak exposes 533 million Facebook users; Belgian authorities decrypt half a billion messages on Sky ECC, confiscate twenty-seven tons of cocaine; Automobile manufacturers call upon U.S. government amid chip shortage; Chinese supercomputing companies added to U.S. blacklist; and Vietnam considers legislation to regulate tech firms.

Blog Post by Adam Segal April 9, 2021 Net Politics
Cybersecurity

New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q4 2020

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between October and December 2020.

Blog Post by Adam Segal March 17, 2021 Net Politics
Southeast Asia

A Review of “Under Beijing’s Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge” by Murray Hiebert

Hunter Marston is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. His research focuses on great power competition in Southeast Asia. According to recent surveys of Southeast Asia, China is …

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound September 3, 2020 Asia Unbound

Cybersecurity

New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q2 2020

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between April and June 2020.

Blog Post by Adam Segal August 25, 2020 Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
Southeast Asia

What’s Behind Mainland Southeast Asia’s Surprising Success Against COVID-19

With the exception of Thailand, the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia are some of the poorest in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the World Bank, Cambodia has a per capita GDP of around …

by Joshua Kurlantzick August 11, 2020 Asia Program
Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia's Battle Against COVID-19

With the exception of Thailand, the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia are some of the poorest in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the World Bank, Cambodia has a per capita GDP of around …

Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick August 11, 2020 Asia Unbound
Southeast Asia

Vietnam’s Response to the United States’ Changing Approach to the South China Sea

Huong Le Thu is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. July 2020 marked a significant shift in developments regarding the South China Sea. The Trump administration announce…

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound August 3, 2020 Asia Unbound
South China Sea

China’s Maritime Disputes

Disputes over overlapping exclusive economic zones in the South China Sea have intensified in recent decades, while the territorial row over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea dates back to the nineteenth century.

Timeline by Beina Xu, Eleanor Albert and Lindsay Maizland July 15, 2020
Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Cyber Week in Review: May 1, 2020

Commerce department tightens restrictions on technology exports; Australia debuts coronavirus tracing app; Amazon bought thermal cameras from blacklisted Chinese firm; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects AI inventor; and Report reveals Vietnamese hackers’ targeting of Google Play store.

Blog Post by Adam Segal May 1, 2020 Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
Asia

Vietnam: A Successful Battle Against the Virus

The country has kept its number of cases relatively low by reacting immediately, decisively, and with a degree of severity.

Blog Post by Huong Le Thu April 30, 2020 Asia Unbound
Taiwan

It Is Time for a Currency Manipulation Truce… Especially as Taiwan Disclosed Its True Foreign Exchange Position

There is no need for the Treasury to put out its foreign exchange report on time this April. There are other, more pressing priorities. And if it does, the Treasury should exercise its discretion to allow those countries that came close to meeting the definition of manipulation last year off the hook.

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser March 12, 2020 Follow the Money
Southeast Asia

The Uncertainty of Vietnam’s Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

In a major new defense white paper, its first in ten years, Vietnam has signaled that it could abandon its long-standing foreign policy strategy of hedging between major powers like China and the Uni…

Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick January 30, 2020 Asia Unbound
Taiwan

All Sound and No Fury? Will The Trump Administration Get Tough on Currency in April?

A number of Asian countries could be designated as manipulators in the U.S. Treasury's April foreign exchange report. And unlike the politically motivated designation of China last summer, there would be a clear analytical justification for a new round of designations.

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser January 14, 2020 Follow the Money
Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Faces Graver Peril From Climate Change Than Previously Thought

Rising seas will endanger more than three hundred million people in the next thirty years, according to a startling new study published in late October in the journal Nature Communications. By 2050, …

Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick November 12, 2019 Asia Unbound
Taiwan

What Might Be in Treasury's October 2019 Foreign Exchange Report?

The Fall 2019 Treasury Foreign Exchange Report should send a strong warning to Thailand, Taiwan, and Singapore that their current pattern of intervention in the market would put them at risk of future designation. But it probably won't focus heavily on any of the three.

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser October 11, 2019 Follow the Money