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Blurred Orbits: Inside China’s Commercial Space Expansion

The expansion of China’s commercial space industry is stunning in both scale and speed. U.S. policymakers must understand these trends now, before America finds itself outpaced in sheer industrial capacity and output.

Report by Kari A. Bingen, Aidan Powers-Riggs, and Chantal Li — July 29, 2026

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The Curious Case of the “America First” Trade Policy in Vietnam

Bitter Harvest: Diagnosing and Deterring Chinese Coercive Agricultural Trade Restrictions

Taiwan

Taiwan Needs U.S. Arms Now

Southbound Diplomacy: Assessing Taiwan’s “Integrated Diplomacy” on the 10th Anniversary of the New Southbound Policy

Red Kraken: The Coming Age of Agentic Cyber Strategy

Wartime Footing: A Two-Front Strategy to Confront China and Russia

Tech Competition

Innovation Lightbulb: FY 2027 Proposed R&D Cuts

What the Trump-Xi Summit Revealed, and Left Unsaid, About U.S.-China Tech Competition

Geopolitics

China and CRINK: Implications for Japan and the United States

Come Hague or High Seas: China’s Environmental Legacy in the South China Sea

Health

How Foes Can Defeat a Common Enemy: U.S.-China Collaboration to Combat Ebola

Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”

Human Rights

Assessing the Impact of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act After Three Years

How China and Russia Facilitate North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses

Energy and Climate

China’s Nuclear Energy Priorities Under Its 15th Five-Year Plan

Chinese Energy Investments in Southeast Asia

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Taiwan Needs an AI Cyber Shield Now to Defend Against Invasion

China attempts over 2.6 million cyber intrusions daily into Taiwan’s networks. Taiwan should adopt the United Kingdom’s newest AI cyber shield concept, developing its own nationally integrated AI cybersecurity system to disrupt China’s reunification efforts.

Commentary by Andrew Faulhaber — July 29, 2026

Blurred Orbits: Inside China’s Commercial Space Expansion

The expansion of China’s commercial space industry is stunning in both scale and speed. U.S. policymakers must understand these trends now, before America finds itself outpaced in sheer industrial capacity and output.

Report by Kari A. Bingen, Aidan Powers-Riggs, and Chantal Li — July 29, 2026

Red Kraken: The Coming Age of Agentic Cyber Strategy

In a tabletop exercise, members of Congress faced Red Kraken, an AI agent trained to emulate Beijing. Benjamin Jensen and Emily Harding examine how China could target ports and logistics to delay U.S. mobilization and argue for AI-enabled gaming to strengthen cyber defenses.

Commentary by Benjamin Jensen and Emily Harding — July 28, 2026

Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuilding

China has developed the largest shipbuilding industry in recent history and now uses it as an instrument of national power. It is key to Beijing's ambitions to displace the United States as the preeminent power in the Asia-Pacific and project power far from China’s shores.

Congressional Testimony by Matthew P. Funaiole — July 22, 2026