Cybersecurity

Europeans are racing to create their own artificial intelligence chatbots to stop U.S.-made tech from gobbling up their economies, culture and even languages themselves. From Madrid to Sofia, European Union countries have launched and supported a flurry of initiatives aimed at creating chatbots that are truly fluent in local …

Paul Pillars From TikTok to AIPAC, intense partisanship provides a channel for foreign states to interfere in U.S. politics and policy. The Chinese ownership of the video app TikTok—targeted by a bill that the House of Representatives passed with a large bipartisan majority—might indicate a severe concern about …

Adnan Naser  With the country calling for a withdrawal and the region heating up, might the U.S. military presence in Iraq finally come to an end? So much has been reported on what the United States aims to do in the recent collision of interests between itself and …

The idea of global free trade as an end in itself is obsolete in a multipolar world of several great powers and shifting coalitions, in which today’s friendly trading partner may be tomorrow’s enemy determined to cut off essential supplies. THE RISE of China as a great power …

In today’s digital era, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a crucial component across various sectors, particularly in developing countries that face unique cybersecurity challenges associated with the use of this technology. AI has played a significant role in the education sector, where, according to a UNESCO report, its …

Jacob Helberg TikTok could be the biggest foreign intelligence operation in U.S. history. It’s time for Congress to act. As the war rages between Israel and Hamas, TikTok’s proliferation of anti-Israel content has reignited the debate about whether the platform should be legal in the United States. While …

Dov Sakheim There was far less to the Biden-Xi APEC meeting than either man was willing to acknowledge. President Joe Biden was, in that quaint British expression, “cock-a-hoop” over what he considered a successful summit meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. Biden claimed that the two men had made …

Graham Allison What is the significance of the Biden-Xi summit on Wednesday? In one line: two adult leaders engaging in serious, candid, private conversation about the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. What is the significance of the Biden-Xi summit on Wednesday? In one line: two adult …

North Korea policy in the first Trump administration allowed the U.S. to test the proposition that maximum sanctions pressure on the North Korean economy, combined with the allure of summit-level diplomacy with the U.S., would sufficiently alter Kim Jong Un’s calculus about giving up his nuclear deterrent. That …