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Xi Jinping’s Bureaucracy in 2025: A Critique

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversaries2025, aging leadership, anti-corruption efforts, authoritarian regimes, bureaucracy, ccp, CCP rectification campaigns, Central Committee, Chinese Communist Party, Critique, discontent, economic hardships, elite competition, factional struggles, Fatima J. Saquilayan, ideological rigidity, intelligence agencies, Jumel G. Estrañero, loyalty tests, military, Politburo, political opposition, political scandals, political stability, power struggles, presidential term limits, purges, security apparatus, security forces, strategic pragmatism , succession, Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s Bureaucracy in 2025: A Critique

Jumel Gabilan Estrañero & Fatima J. Saquilayan0 Comments

Chinese Premiere Xi Jinping remains firmly in control of China’s political landscape, with no visible plan for succession. Xi’s firm control over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unprecedented in…

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ICBM EAR Report December 8th

Archive, Bonus Reads, EAR Report, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAbraham Accords, aircraft, Appropriations, artillery shells, Assad regime, battleground states, China, congress, continuing resolution, CSIS, defense appropriations, defense budget, defense funding, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, defense policy, defense policy bill, Defense Production Act, Defense Spending, defense strategy, defense-related activities, Deterrence, environmental regulations, escalation, escalation dominance, extremist organization, fast breeder reactors, gender-affirming care, House, IISS, Indo-Pacific, Iran, Los Alamos, military, military veterans, modernization, National Security, national security programs, NATO, NATO expansion, natural gas, NDAA, NNSA, North Korea, nuclear age, nuclear arms race, nuclear arsenal, nuclear brinksmanship, nuclear deterrent, nuclear enterprise, nuclear modernization, nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, nuclear threats, nuclear treaties, nuclear warheads, Nuclear Weapons, Oil, Palantir, pentagon, plutonium, precision-guided munitions, Reagan Defense Forum, Rocky Flats, Rosatom, Russia, Savannah River, security, Senate, stockpile stewardship, strategic competitors, strategic developments, strategic environment, strategic risk, submarines, Syria, Taiwan, Taiwan conflict, transition team, Trump, Ukraine, wargaming, wartime footing, world war III, Xi Jinping

ICBM EAR Report December 8th

Peter Huessy0 Comments

Executive Summary: Week of December 8, 2024 This report asserts that the United States is at a critical inflection point in global security, facing mounting threats from an increasingly assertive…

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Why India Made Up with China at the BRICS Summit

Archive, Strategic AdversariesAmit Gupta, Beijing-Moscow alliance, bilateral meeting, border skirmishes, BRICS, cellphone market, China, CRINK, de-dollarize, economic growth, economic ties, electric scooters, foreign direct investment, Galwan, high-tech industries, Hisense, Huawei, India, Indo-Pacific, Law Based International Order, Military Technology, Narendra Modi, Narendra Modi's internal standing, Paytm, Quadrilateral Alliance, United States, Xi Jinping

Why India Made Up with China at the BRICS Summit

Amit Gupta0 Comments

For the past six years India-China relations have been at a low point with the two countries getting into skirmishes along the border. The worst of these was in 2020,…

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America’s Downward Slide

Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesChina, cold war, Gulf War I, Iraq, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Korean War, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear modernization, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, proliferation, Russia, Soviet Union, Taliban, Xi Jinping

America’s Downward Slide

& Peter Huessy0 Comments

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes, The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever.…

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