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A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world.
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"Isolated strikes like the ones carried out by the United States last night are unlikely to significantly reduce the terrorist threat in the region or reverse Nigeria’s growing insecurity," write CSIS Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program experts.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/why...
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"If the digital yuan becomes the settlement standard for AI services, the United States loses hundreds of billions in sustained dollar demand," notes @navingirishankar.bsky.social.

Read more from @est.csis.org on the importance of building a compute-dollar system: www.csis.org/analysis/tur...
Turning the AI Revolution into Dollar Dominance
Navin Girishankar argues that President Trump's Gulf chip deals enable billions in AI exports but miss what ensures dollar dominance. A compute-dollar successor to the petrodollar will keep China’s offer of AI plus digital yuan settlement in the rearview mirror. 
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December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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What would happen if China initiated a blockade of Taiwan in the coming years?

To understand the military challenges in countering a blockade, CSIS ran 26 wargames using a wide variety of scenarios: www.csis.org/analysis/lig...
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A new CSIS report identifies eight countries in the Global South that will play an outsized role in determining the state of the global order going forward:
🇧🇷Brazil
🇲🇽Mexico
🇿🇦South Africa
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
🇹🇷Turkey
🇮🇩Indonesia
🇮🇳India
🇦🇪UAE

Learn more: www.csis.org/zbchair/proj...
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Ukraine and its Western backers need to resurrect the idea of commerce raiding and broad-based economic war to bust the ghost fleet and impose costs on Putin’s war machine," @futures.csis.org writes.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/gho...
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Though rare, subsea cable attacks impose real costs. But leading technologies are democratizing maritime data and deterring would-be saboteurs. To further deter intentional cable attacks, cable owners should aggressively pursue legal remedies.

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December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New analysis from the CSIS Center for the Industrial Base outlines the challenges facing the U.S. naval shipbuilding enterprise, their underlying drivers, and some efforts the government has taken to mitigate them.

Learn more: www.csis.org/analysis/out...
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"U.S. policymakers need to act quickly in coordination with allies and partners to address the economic and national security threats posed by China’s shipbuilding industry," write CSIS Hidden Reach experts.

Learn more about China's dual-use shipyards: www.csis.org/analysis/shi...
Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire
China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign companies are inadvertently helping. This report outlines how the United States and its partners can confront China's dual-use shipyards.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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On the latest episode of The Last Line of Defense, Kari Bingen joins Seth Jones to look back at major defense and military shocks of 2025, including Russia’s poor performance, Operation Midnight Hammer, and China’s military parade.

Listen: www.csis.org/podcasts/las...
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Japan would benefit from additional preparatory measures for many national security–related contingencies, such as disputes with Beijing over contested islands or Chinese pressure related to a blockade or invasion of Taiwan.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/str...
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"Xi and Putin have their differences, but they are united in their desire to weaken America," argues CSIS's Seth Jones in The Wall Street Journal.

Read more about China and Russia's "no limits" alliance: www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"The Navy needs to build ships now rather than begin long development programs that will take years to produce usable capability," writes CSIS's Mark Cancian on the newly-announced class of battleships.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/gol...
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Despite the Navy’s plans for growing the fleet and bipartisan efforts and funding from Congress, the U.S. shipbuilding enterprise has failed to consistently produce ships at the scale, speed, and cost demanded," writes the CSIS Center for the Industrial Base.

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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Safeguarding minerals supply chains is an economic and national security imperative. Yet significant vulnerabilities persist despite ongoing efforts by government and businesses to address them.

See recommendations from @minerals.csis.org: www.csis.org/analysis/cri...
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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China’s structures in the Yellow Sea and its harassment of South Korean vessels resemble “creeping sovereignty” grey zone tactics that Beijing employed in the South and East China Seas. How should the U.S. and Korea respond?

@victordcha.bsky.social discusses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3A...
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"The accelerating rise of the so-called Global South is reshaping the geopolitical landscape and challenging long-standing assumptions about how power is expressed in the international system."

Read more from Jon Alterman and Lily McElwee: www.csis.org/zbchair/proj...
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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As global power diffuses and multilateralism fractures, rising Global South states are increasingly reshaping institutions, challenging Western dominance, and forcing the United States to rethink how it engages a rapidly changing world.

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December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"The evidence suggests that Russia has largely failed to achieve its primary objectives and has suffered high costs," CSIS Defense and Security Department experts write about the war in Ukraine.

Learn more about Russia's battlefield woes: www.csis.org/analysis/rus...
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"The demand to increase the Navy’s ship count has only grown as China’s navy has overtaken the U.S. fleet in terms of size with the blistering rate of production of its own shipbuilding industry."

Read more about challenges to U.S. naval shipbuilding: www.csis.org/analysis/out...
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The 2025 @poni.csis.org Nuclear Scholars explore the future of nuclear strategy, offering perspectives from emerging experts on disruptive technology, intensifying geopolitical rivalries, and strategic stability.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/hor...
On the Horizon, Vol. 8
The 2025 PONI Nuclear Scholars explore the future of nuclear strategy, offering perspectives from emerging experts on disruptive technology, intensifying geopolitical rivalries, and strategic stability.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In a new report, @csishumanrights.bsky.social director Andrew Friedman explores potential means for utilizing America's procurement capacity and creating greater space for human rights protections within federal government procurement.

Read the full report: www.csis.org/analysis/imp...
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Trump administration recently released its National Security Strategy, with a large focus on the Western Hemisphere. Is China’s policy paper a response to the NSS, or should it be read in a different light?

Read analysis from @geopolitics.csis.org experts: www.csis.org/analysis/chi...
China’s Third Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean: Expanding Influence and Ambitions
China’s third policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean outlines an institutionalized strategy to deepen regional engagement and secure support for Beijing’s geopolitical goals, with significant implications for U.S. policy in the region and for Taiwan.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The strength of the United States’ innovation system does not rest on government spending alone, but on the mutually supportive partnership between public investment, university research, and private enterprise.

More from CSIS Renewing American Innovation: www.csis.org/analysis/uni...
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Countering Russia’s ghost fleet requires more than sanctions. A coordinated strategy using open-source intelligence, maritime law, and multilateral diplomacy can impose real costs on illicit trade networks fueling Moscow’s war.

More from @futures.csis.org: www.csis.org/analysis/gho...
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“More than anything, Brazil desires a more equitable share of power globally,” note CSIS Americas Program experts.

Learn more about Brazil's “striving for seriousness”: www.csis.org/analysis/str...
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM