In this episode we explore how China spies. China’s role in geopolitics continues to expand, yet finding even the basics on China’s organizations responsible for foreign intelligence collection and espionage is a challenge. Jamestown Foundation Fellow Peter Mattis and CSIS…
By Lisa Collins — A fake report about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by a female suicide bomber from a secret Pyongyang brothel set the Twittersphere on fire late June 16 and early June 17. The South…
By Victor Cha — An investigation recently opened by federal authorities – the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles – and analyses by private cybersecurity firms such as Symantec and Bae Systems in the past month have renewed…
This week we discuss the outlook for Myanmar’s upcoming general elections with the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell. Ambassador Mitchell describes some of the key issues the U.S. government is monitoring in Myanmar in the run up to voting…
On September 25, during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States for meetings with President Obama, the U.S. government announced that a new agreement was reached China on cybersecurity. In this short video, James Lewis Director and…
In this episode we take a broader look at the Asia Pacific’s economic and security architecture. Dr. Evan Medeiros, former senior director for Asia affairs at the National Security Council, now the Managing Director for Asia at the Eurasia Group,…
The CSIS Asia Program is launching a new weekly CogitAsia podcast that will review and analyze developments and trends in the Indo Pacific. On the podcast this week we are joined by Dr. Jonathan London, professor at the City University…
This week sectarian violence erupted between Buddhists and Muslims in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila, leaving at least 20 dead, though the tally is likely much higher, and includes men, women, and children. The clashes, triggered by a dispute…
China’s government, embroiled in an ongoing row with the United States and other governments over cybersecurity, shared figures on the number of attacks that the Chinese Ministry of Defense website absorbed last year. A defense ministry spokesperson indicated that the…
By James Lewis This is the fourth of a five-part series on Asia in the age of cyber by CSIS’s Dr. Jim Lewis cross-posted from the Lowy Institute’s blog, The Interpreter. See Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. China may…
