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May 20, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in the Taiwan Strait: March 2025

Taiwan President Lai declared China a foreign hostile force and oversaw the island’s first whole-of-society civil defense drill. Taiwan also cracked down on Chinese influencers, spies, and tech compa…

President Lai Ching-te (center) poses for a group photo at Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 21, 2025. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

November 27, 2017

Development
How “Cyber” Sidelined “Development” at the ITU’s World Telecommunication Development Conference

Cybersecurity has made the World Telecommunication Development Conference another political battleground for digital policy, threatening to sideline the very real problems that developing countries n…

The International Telecommunication Union's World Telecommunication Development Conference

May 2, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
April 2025 Russia-China-Ukraine

This April, China increased its imports of Russian liquified natural gas. The two countries are collaborating on a project to fuel the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) using a nuclear powe…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend a signing ceremony following their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 1, 2025. Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via REUTERS

April 9, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in the Taiwan Strait: February 2025

The PRC threatened Taiwan and its partners with live-fire military drills. Taiwan cracked down on Chinese influence and espionage. The Taiwanese Coast Guard boarded and detained the Chinese crew of a…

The guided-missile destroyer the USS Milius conducts a Taiwan Strait transit operation in April 2023. (U.S. Navy via Reuters)

February 14, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in the Indo-Pacific: January 2025

This month, a spy scandal in the Philippines and Myanmar’s civil war highlighted China’s controversial involvement in the Indo-Pacific. 

A woman holds a placard during a protest marking the 8th anniversary of the 2016 arbitration ruling over China's claims in the South China Sea, in Quezon City, Philippines, on July 12, 2024. " (Lisa Marie David/Reuters)

February 26, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Latin America: February 2025

In February, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the region and warned of Chinese encroachment. Several Latin American countries expanded trade and investment relations with China. Chines…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio tours the Panama Canal during his first overseas trip. Mark Schiefelbein/Reuters.

April 1, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: February 2025

Diplomacy was at the forefront of China-Africa relations in February, with China continuing to showcase its commitment to African countries amid far-reaching policy changes from the United States.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa officially opens the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers at the NASREC conference center in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 20, 2025.

February 20, 2025

Cybersecurity
New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q2 2024

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between April and June 2024.

CFR Cyber Operations Tracker

December 2, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
China in the Middle East: November 2024

As the UAE and China celebrated 40 years of diplomatic relations, Beijing struck issued $2 billion of dollar-denominated bonds in Riyadh. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE sought new deals with China and…

Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, October 16, 2023.