Tag: Technology

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  Cracks in the Network: Cybersecurity Failures, SALT Typhoon, and U.S. Cyber Leadership

  On April 23, the Center for the National Interest and the National Security Institute (NSI) hosted a joint discussion on cybersecurity challenges in telecom networks, with a particular focus on the SALT Typhoon threat actor and its broader implications for U.S. national security. First publicly disclosed in 2024, the hack saw Chinese state actors infiltrate

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  Countering China’s Economic Might

  China’s economic heft presents unique challenges that go well beyond traditional defense. According to the International Energy Agency, China’s investment in manufacturing has increased about 600% since 2005, and its share of value added in global manufacturing has almost tripled. As a result, China now generates one-third of global value added in manufacturing and has

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  China’s Trajectory: Up or Down?

  In the wake of the forthcoming presidential election, the incoming administration will begin to develop policy toward China. U.S. perceptions of China’s capabilities and intentions provide an essential foundation for American strategy and policy. Since strategy and policy are oriented toward not only the present, but also to the foreseeable future, U.S. assessments of China’s

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  Competition and Cooperation in Energy, Technology, and Critical Minerals in the Indo-Pacific Region

  The collision between geopolitics, energy, and technology may be a defining aspect of the international system in the 2020s. Even as the United States and its allies work to diversify their supply chains to avoid over-dependence on geopolitical competitors, they are in simultaneous cooperation and competition with one another. In some areas, such as fossil

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  Chips, Apps, and U.S.-China Competition

  As the Biden administration and the Congress increasingly focus on U.S. competition with China, policymakers confront complex problems illustrated both by microchip supply chains and by current debates surrounding TikTok. These problems raise fundamental questions: What forms of trade, investment, and commerce should the United States allow? What should it limit? Which goods can and

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