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Financial Times: Voice of China for the Globe

Emily Feng March 22, 2018
China is consolidating its state-run media including television broadcaster CCTV, China Radio International and China National Radio. The media giant will be known as Voice of China and will continue to target a global audience, presenting “Communist party theories, guidelines and policies” and a Chinese model of governance as an alternative to Western democracy and media reports. “China’s state...

ChinaFile: A Clash of Cyber Civilizations

Geoffrey Hoffman March 21, 2018
Various cultures are emerging on the internet, and “as the international system slips away from American unipolarity, a competing model of cyber sovereignty has emerged in China that seeks to bind cyber borders to online censorship and surveillance,” writes Geoffrey Hoffman for ChinaFile. Distrust also emerges, and he questions if the two models can coexist. China enforces cyber borders and that...

Channel 4: Cambridge Analytica Election Consultants Filmed

March 20, 2018
Cambridge Analytica executives claim to have consulted on more than 200 elections around the globe - the website claimss 100 - and an undercover investigation in London suggests the company may have used extreme measures to support candidates in violation of the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Channel 4 News reporters posed as prospective clients over four months, filming...

Reuters: US Issues Alert on Utility, Infrastructure Cyberattacks

Dustin Volz and Timothy Gardner March 17, 2018
The US has publicly accused Russia of waging cyberattacks against the power grids and other key infrastructure sectors over the past two years. Some facilities and companies may not yet realize they have been infiltrated by malware, phishing and remote access. “The campaign targeted engineers and technical staff with access to industrial controls, suggesting the hackers were interested in...

Reuters: World Steel Markets Unfazed by Tariffs

Maytaal Angel March 14, 2018
The US is proceeding with 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 15 percent on aluminum. Canada and Mexico are exempted for now. The US is the world’s second largest consumer of steel, at just under 100 metric tons, lagging far behind China at almost 700 metric tons. The US is the fourth largest producer, again lagging behind China, responsible for half the world’s steel and driving global...

Times of India: Road to Trade War

Nayan Chanda March 14, 2018
Just before a special election in a congressional district spanning suburbs and rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania, the US president announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports for the purposes of national security. The hope was to rally blue-collar and rural workers to vote for the Republican candidate, the “world economy be damned,” as YaleGlobal founding editor Nayan Chanda notes....

New York Times: US Foreign Policy Under Pompeo

David E. Sanger March 14, 2018
The rest of the world must adjust to another US secretary of state. Donald Trump fired Rex Tillerson, long at odds with the US president, and announced plans to nominate Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Trump suggests that Pompeo’s world views are more closely aligned with his own. Writing for the New York Times, David Sanger describes Tillerson as “a restraining...