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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

Don’t miss AFPC Senior VP Ilan Berman's latest piece, "Russia's Economy Is Ailing. Its Influence Campaign Isn't."

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/N8s44N2TA3

#Russia #Putin #RussianEconomy #DefensePolicy #ForeignAffairs

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CHINA POLICY MONITOR NO. 1679

01: Military must "forge a political soul loyal to the party"
02: In search of tax revenue, China targets offshore trusts
03: The MSS targets Trump world
04: PLA uses electronic warfare on Dutch warship in South China Sea
05: China pulls visa of Times reporter

Read CPM No. 1679 here: https://t.co/0ERLDref0H

#China #SouthChinaSea #Trump #PRC #ForeignPolicy

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RUSSIA POLICY MONITOR NO. 2731

01: Putin's quest for immortality... fuels speculative science
02: Some deterrent messaging from NATO
03: Ukraine strikes at the heart of Russian naval power...
04: ...And targets Russian oil refineries
05: The economic strains of the Ukraine war continue to mount

Read RPM No. 2731 here: https://t.co/ZePgor48VX

#Russia #Putin #Ukraine #DefenseStrategy #ForeignPolicy

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

Don’t miss AFPC Fellow in National Security Affairs Rob Pierce's latest piece, "How to Counter China’s Fishing Fleet in the Western Hemisphere."

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/Fdk1K3DwX3

#CoastGuard #China #EconomicPolicy #DefensePolicy #ForeignAffairs

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CHINA POLICY MONITOR NO. 1678

01: China to buy 200 Boeing jets following Trump-Xi summit
02: U.S. arms sales to Taiwan unrelated to Iran war
03: Xi and Putin tout ties, warn of U.S. "hegemonic countercurrents"...
04: ...And condemn Trump's "Golden Dome"
05: Moscow, Beijing rally for Raúl Castro

Read CPM No. 1678 here: https://t.co/ladREbcYOV

#China #Iran #Taiwan #PRC #ForeignPolicy

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

Don’t miss AFPC Senior VP Ilan Berman's latest piece, "Macron's 'third way' is not all it is cracked up to be."

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/XhPfjdId1G

#France #Paris #EmmanuelMacron #DefensePolicy #ForeignAffairs

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INFORMATION WARFARE WATCH NO. 53

01: China's informational inroads in the Caucasus
02: The Iranian regime versus Starlink
03: Russia's European information offensive

Read IWW No. 53 here: https://t.co/8p0Tjf11BN

#InformationWarfare #China #Iran #DefenseStrategy #ForeignPolicy

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RUSSIA POLICY MONITOR NO. 2730

01: An armed anti-regime movement emerges in Russia...
02: ...While Putin's support continues to slip...
03: ...And the Russian president does damage control
04: Russia's hybrid assault on Europe

Read RPM No. 2730 here: https://t.co/0Sf22xDSQ8

#Russia #Putin #Europe #DefenseStrategy #ForeignPolicy

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CHINA POLICY MONITOR NO. 1677

01: Household registration restrictions to be relaxed - state council
02: PRC nationals help Mexican cartels launder drug money
03: Japan demands safety guarantees after Shanghai stabbing
04: China expands crackdown on Myanmar scam compounds
05: China removes tariffs on African imports

Read CPM No. 1677 here: https://t.co/LjgAnzkRmL

#China #Japan #Myanmar #PRC #ForeignPolicy

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

Don’t miss AFPC Senior VP Ilan Berman's latest piece, "The Abraham Accords Should Be More Than A Bargaining Chip."

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/OXDgvFJ2uD

#AbrahamAccords #Iran #DefensePolicy #ForeignAffairs

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GLOBAL ISLAMISM MONITOR NO. 141

01: ANKARA MOVES AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE
02: SHIFTING PALESTINIAN PUBLIC OPINION
03: IRAQ'S MILITIAS DIG IN...
04: ...AS IRAN'S PROXIES COLLABORATE

Read GIM No. 141 here: https://t.co/ow5X8vkvSx

#Islam #Turkey #Iraq #Iran #ForeignPolicy

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By dramatically lowering the cost of moving mass in space, mass drivers could enable large-scale industrialization of the Moon, rapid deployment and repositioning of orbital infrastructure, and fundamentally new approaches to logistics in space.

Check out our new special report on operational lunar mass drivers by Andre Sonntag here: https://t.co/sneTdez0Pe.

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🎧 Listen NOW to our newest Space Strategy Podcast

Peter Garretson sits down with Christopher Stone to break down what the Space Force got right, what it got wrong, what's missing, and where U.S. space strategy should go from here.

🔗 https://t.co/1a7XrubA7U

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As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, the human and economic tolls of the conflict continue to mount.

Check out our new special report by Lindsey Cliff here: https://t.co/4ftVXZT8Qt

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

Don’t miss AFPC Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Lawrence J. Haas's latest piece, "The Iran War and the Home Front Dilemma."

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/P7RRlvxl3h

#StraitofHormuz #Iran #IranWar #DefensePolicy #ForeignAffairs

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Watch AFPC's @CACI_SilkRoad Program Director Laura Linderman's recent testimony before the @HelsinkiComm on Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary election with regard to the country’s choices on peace, security, regional integration, and democracy amid ongoing normalization efforts with neighbors, unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh tensions, and potential Russian influence. [starts at 5:09] https://t.co/0AzqCoGhj1

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NEW AFPC SPECIAL REPORT!

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated population decline in its resource-rich outlying regions, which are dying off faster than the rest of the country. These areas power the nation’s oil, gas, and timber industries, making them both economic engines and human reservoirs. As working-age men are killed or sent to the front, labor shortages in vital industries deepen. Replacing these workers is increasingly difficult: rising xenophobia and legal barriers push migrants away, while improving conditions in Central Asia reduce the flow of foreign labor to Russia.

Click below to read AFPC Junior Fellow Lindsey Cliff's full report!

https://t.co/9PXUQuxp5n

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"It’s the most important story that most people aren’t watching.

Late last month, Islamist militants affiliated with Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate active in Africa’s lawless Sahel region, spearheaded a series of coordinated attacks across the nation of Mali. Over the span of two days, the group – working in tandem with ethnic Tuareg separatists – struck military targets in and around the capital, Bamako, hit the country’s international airport, seized the northern city of Kidal, and assassinated the country’s defense minister." Read AFPC senior vice president Ilan Berman's latest for @Forbes

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China Policy Monitor No. 1676
Beijing blames "foreign forces" for youth malaise;
Tehran and Beijing affirm strategic partnership ahead of Trump visiit;
Taiwan indicts former news host for PRC espionage;
Two former Defense Ministers receive suspended death sentences;
Over a million corruption cases investigated in 2025
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