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I Ran the N.S.A. This Is How to Defeat China’s Hacker Army.

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Behind the pageantry that will be on display during President Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping of China this week is a less pleasant reality. For at least the last decade, Beijing has been actively targeting America’s telecommunications networks, intellectual property and electrical and water utilities in a sustained campaign of intrusion. The summit provides an opportunity to raise the issue more forcefully with Mr. Xi than American leaders have in the past. But America also has its own unpleasant reality to face: Protecting the country from bad actors in…

How the U.S. Is Trying to Ensure the Dollar’s Dominance During Economic Turmoil

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The summit between President Trump and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week is likely to include tense discussions about tariffs, Taiwan, Iran and sanctions. But simmering below the surface is another battle between the United States and China: an intensifying currency war. Concerns about America’s mounting debt load and its aggressive use of sanctions to cut adversaries off from the Western financial system have raised doubts about the safety of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Those fears have led to growing demand for gold and…

Why Some in Taiwan Are Training for War

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new video loaded: Why Some in Taiwan Are Training for War <img src="https://www.chinastrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/why-some-in-taiwan-are-training-for-war.jpg" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width < 1024px) 100vw, (width A group of civilians in Taiwan are stepping up defense training amid rising tensions with China. Beijing’s claim to the island is expected to be discussed by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Trump this week. By Shawn Paik and Julie Yoon May 11, 2026 NYT

What Middle Powers Fear from the Trump-Xi Summit

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Poland will soon host production lines for South Korean tanks. Australia is buying warships from Japan. Canada will send uranium to India, while India offers cruise missiles to Vietnam, and Brazil builds military transport planes for the United Arab Emirates. All of these deals were sealed in the past few weeks. Each one represents an attempt by middle powers to protect themselves as the conflict in Iran throttles global energy supplies, and as a high-stakes summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping of China looms. Global polls show the world…

Why the Trump-Xi Summit Matters, Even if Little Seems to Come of It

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President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, are scheduled to meet in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit that could shape the next stage of rivalry between the world’s two major powers. Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi are expected to discuss the war in Iran, trade, Taiwan and other points of contention during a two-day summit beginning on Thursday. Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi last met in October in South Korea, where they agreed to pause a bruising trade war in which the U.S. imposed triple-digit tariffs on Chinese…

An Emboldened New China Spells Trouble for Trump

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One of the most widely shared viral memes on Chinese social media today is “the American kill line.” Borrowed from video game slang for the threshold at which a weakened character can be easily finished off, it refers to the widely held notion in China that millions of American families are teetering on a precipice — one lost job, illness or unexpected expense away from ruin. It has become the prevailing Chinese metaphor for an America seen as mired in economic decay, violent crime and irreversible decline. This is, of…

How China May Have Sought to Recruit a House Aide to Spy on the U.S.

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When a man identifying himself as Chris Chen reached out this winter to an aide on a House committee focused on threats from China, he came armed with a lucrative offer. The staff member, Mr. Chen proposed, could earn $10,000 or more by barely lifting a finger. All he would need to do is agree to phone calls every other week to share information about the committee’s work and U.S. foreign policy about China. Insights into U.S. trade or national-security issues, including the Trump administration’s plans for Venezuela in the…

In Hungary, Voters Exposed the Limits of China’s Ties to Orban

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The gigantic Chinese lithium battery factory under construction for three years on the edge of Hungary’s second biggest city hasn’t started production yet. But it has already contributed to a political earthquake. As the biggest Chinese investment in Europe, the $8.5 billion project in the eastern city of Debrecen had been hailed by Hungary’s outgoing prime minister, Viktor Orban, as proof of the economic benefits of his close relations with China. Instead, the factory helped bring about his downfall. In the April 12 election, Mr. Orban’s Fidesz party lost all…

This Is What Should Unite the Right and the Left on A.I.

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We come from different parties and have guided artificial intelligence policy under very different presidents. But we agree: A.I. has become so powerful that, along with its tremendous promise, the technology poses immediate risks to national security. The United States is competing with authoritarian powers for control of A.I.’s future. Yet the country lacks a strong plan to protect the nation from A.I.’s profound dangers. There are clear steps the government can take that both parties can agree on. But Washington lacks urgency. Unless we change course, A.I. systems will…

Trump Shouldn’t Expect Much From His China Trip

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When I first moved to Shanghai from Virginia in 2008, China still looked up to America. Much of what China did, how it saw itself, what it strove for and its place in the world was measured against “Meiguo” — the “beautiful country” — as America is known in Chinese. Fresh out of college, I had no work experience. But just being American was enough. I landed jobs at top high schools and universities where I taught classes such as Western culture. But there wasn’t really a curriculum. All the…