In late February, New York-based Global Times writer Rong Xiaoqing published a piece on Jeremy Lin and the “Hunger for Heroes in the U.S.” In her piece, Rong argues that the United States—and democra…

Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.  This year marked a turning point in military uses of cyberspace. For the fi…

A few weeks ago, I was part of a "National Thought Leaders" visit to the National Security Agency. Famously secretive and opaque (see, No Such Agency), the NSA started conducting this type of outreac…

Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford Universi…

Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is an associate philosophy professor. When cyberatt…

Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  In a surprise announcement at the end of June, Chinese authorities revealed that Lu Wei, China’s top i…

Rachel Brown, Gabriella Meltzer, and Gabriel Walker look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Smoldering discontent rekindles protests in Wukan, China. Nearly five years ago, popular protests eru…

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: 1. Fretting over Chinese tech regulations as China’s internet czar steps down. In a surprising m…

Mi Lin is an intern for Global Health Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. On March 9-10 and March 16-17, two sections of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Acce…