GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Xi Jinping needed, once the Party Congress was over, to re-assert calm over his domestic and international arenas, but there seems little he can do to blunt the PRC’s worsening economic situation and accompany-ing social unrest.
SOVEREIGNTY
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
PERSONNEL
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Turkish National Intelligence Service is the President’s primary power base.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
China’s communists have now placed their fate, and the fate of China’s unwilling people, firmly in the hands of one man. The probable result is the deliberate implosion of mainland China’s economy, a key catalyst in an already unstable global strategic architecture.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The civil war within the party moves into a new phase of suppression of Xi’s opponents and the broader public. The damage to the international economy will be immense. The cost to the Chinese people will be immeasurably more severe.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Important New Strategic Literature
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Cold War II has taken on a more global definition as the Eurasian bloc emerges.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The stark East-West divide — or re-divide — was not irrevocable until now.