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China unveiled a motion-controlled combat robot, and it’s unsettling

China’s latest military gadget looks like it was ripped from a science fiction storyboard: a motion-controlled combat robot ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

China and the United States need a framework for nuclear arms control. It isn’t New START

Editor’s note: This article belongs to a two-part series about addressing the nuclear arms control trilemma. Read the second article in the series. The extended New START arms control agreement ...
CNN

China is building new villages on its remote Himalayan border. Some appear to have crossed the line

High in the mist-shrouded Himalayas, a winding mountain road opens to a clearing in the pine forested valley, revealing rows of uniform Tibetan-style houses, each topped with a Chinese flag.
Newsweek

NATO’s Defense Vulnerable to China’s Control Over Seven Materials

NATO's military capabilities face significant risks from China's near-total dominance in seven critical materials essential to defense technologies. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign ...
SpaceNews

China launches experimental cargo spacecraft, opaque tech demo mission and remote sensing satellite

A Long March 4B lifts off carrying the Ziyuan-3 (04) remote sensing satellite, Dec. 16 (UTC), 2025, climbing above the snow-dusted hills surrounding Taiyuan spaceport. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China ...
The Conversation

China is struggling to control its provinces as they expand distant-water fishing

Hang Zhou receives funding from TransOceanic Fishers (European Research Council, Grant No. 802223, 2018) and Changing Work at Sea (SSHRC Insight Grant, # 435-2024-1435, 2024) for this research.
The Diplomat

China’s Third Plenum: Political Control Drives Economic Reforms

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...