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When the Lights Went Dark in Penghu: Why Taiwan should employ SMART Cables for strategic defense

On a cold February morning in 2025, residents of Taiwan’s Penghu Islands awoke to an unsettling silence. The whir of routers and the flow of digital communications, so ordinary as to be unnoticed, had vanished. ATMs blinked uselessly, online banking froze, and even the Taiwanese Coast Guard’s secure lines faltered.

Saving Taiwan’s Silicon Scientists: The Coming War for Taiwan’s Semiconductor Talent

In February 2023, CIA Director William Burns revealed that, according to U.S. intelligence, Xi Jinping had ordered the Chinese military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027. Since then, China’s coercion has shifted from sporadic brinkmanship to a steady campaign of naval maneuvers and near-daily air incursions into Taiwan’s air defense zone.

Bridging Trust and Strategy: A U.S. - Pakistan Partnership at a Crossroads

Last week in Washington, I had the honor of moderating a fireside chat with Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, as part of a special convening hosted by the Truman National Security Project.

Why is the United States siding with Russia to undermine German democracy?

Last month, tens of thousands of Germans and legal immigrants received fake “deportation tickets” in their mailboxes telling them to go back to their “country of origin.”

Darkest Before Dawn: Reflections on the Anniversary of October 7th

The saying “the night is darkest just before dawn, but the dawn is coming” feels a very apt and yet aspirational saying on the eve of the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023.