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This product helps decode the “black box” of Chinese politics through interactive visualizations and explainer essays that map the Chinese government’s formal institutions, informal networks, key decision-makers, and major policy trends.

Amid the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and against the backdrop of armies’ experiences of power in the Arab world and even across the Third World, some Lebanese recall a phenomenon called Fouad Chehab. This man, who passed away 50 years ago — on April 25, 1973 — at the age of 71, embodied numerous qualities and contradicting dimensions. He was the descendant of an Arab family

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

The U.S. response to China’s cyber attacks should involve not just all the elements of government but the private sector as well.

Veteran Iranian socialist <strong>Shahab Borhan</strong> warns of the dangers of relying on spontaneity. The movement needs leadership, organisation and clear politics - article translated from Farsi by Yassamine Mather

New revelations on the laundering of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda through local actors in the Czech Republic point to an underresearched aspect of influence operations. The CCP’s tactic of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海, jie chuan chu hai), i.e., coopting local media outlets to serve as proxies, has long been known to involve organs in the …

Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images A man walks past a twelve-story Shanghai building alleged in a February 19, 2013 report by the Internet security firm Mandiant to house a Chinese military-led cyber hacking group. Mandiants hundreds of investigations traced to this building hacking attacks on U.S. newspapers, government agencies, and companies. On China’s Twitter, Discussion of Hacking Attacks Proceeds Unblocked February 20, 2013 As The New York Times reported yesterday evening, U.S.-based cybers...