[ad_1] Many U.S. observers are waiting in dread for China to attempt a military takeover of Taiwan sometime before 2027, but beneath the threshold of armed conflict, China is already attacking vital Taiwanese information streams, both physically and virtually, while the island develops new tools and techniques to resist. In April, a Chinese fishing vessel, ...

[ad_1] It may take the Navy “years” to recover from the promotion delays caused by a military nomination hold, the nominee to lead the service said during her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. “Senator, I think just at the three-star level, it would take about three to four months to move all of the people around, ...

[ad_1] LONDON—Even as a war rages on the European continent, European defense spending is stuck slightly above neutral, with an overlapping set of political and industrial problems blocking any quick increases in capabilities and styming supplies to Ukraine.  European defense spending rose at a rate of four percent in the last ten years and may ...

[ad_1] Chinese researchers are already investigating how to use generative AI tools—similar to ChatGPT—to manipulate audiences around the world and will likely use such tools to shape perceptions about Taiwan, according to researchers from RAND. “Given the [People’s Liberation Army] and the Chinese Communist Party’s prior intentions, their prior actions…we think is logically the next ...

[ad_1] Many of the largest tech companies in the United States are so intertwined with China that they likely would not survive a massive geopolitical crisis between the two countries, research from data services company J.H. Whitney shows.  Such a crisis would also likely bump leading tech-associated companies like Meta (parent company of Facebook) and ...

[ad_1] Shein acquired a stake in rival fast-fashion retailer Forever 21, expanding its online offerings and establish a brick-and-mortar store presence in the U.S. The Singapore-based retailer already generates a large portion of its sales in the U.S. It’s trying to shift to an Amazon-style marketplace where sellers can list their own products alongside those ...

[ad_1] A recent academic paper out of China proposes a new method for controlling drones and steering them to targets in environments where GPS is under attack, a new sign of the growing importance of drones in conflicts where adversaries have advanced electromagnetic jamming capabilities.  The paper, published at the end of July in the ...

[ad_1] A potential new way to protect sensitive electronics from the extreme heat generated by flying at high speed could give the United States an edge in the race to deploy hypersonic missiles and new spacecraft. A July research paper in the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Nano describes one potential solution that uses  focused ...