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Busch cited by the Hinrich Foundation on Trump’s trade order

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Global China Hub program assistant Samantha Wong featured in Semafor

By Samantha Wong

On February 7th 2025, Global China Hub program assistant Samantha Wong was quoted in Semafor on Gen Z’s views on TikTok’s national security risks.

GCH nonresident fellow Leland Lazarus in NPR

By Leland Lazarus

On February 3rd, GCH nonresident fellow Leland Lazarus was quoted in NPR on how China’s significant trade in Latin America as Secretary of State Marco Rubio makes his first tour to the region.

Soofer quoted in Matthew Kroenig’s Foreign Policy article arguing for an ‘Iron Dome’

By Atlantic Council

On February 5, Forward Defense senior fellow Robert Soofer was quoted in a Foreign Policy article by Matthew Kroenig, Vice President and Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center. The argument piece was titled, “The United States Needs an Iron Dome.” Kroenig quotes Soofer’s recent report, “‘First, we will defend the homeland’: The case for homeland […]

Braw featured in Deutsche Welle discussing sabotage of cables and pipelines

By Elisabeth Braw

On February 6, Transatlantic Security Initiative senior fellow Elisabeth Braw was featured in a television interview on Deutsche Welle discussing cases of cables and pipelines being illegally tampered with, and how the NATO alliance is acting in response to these hybrid threats.

CBDC tracker cited by Mastercard Newsroom on global CBDC progress and adoption

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Elliot Ackerman outlines the strategic case for taking Afghan refugees after 2021 Taliban takeover in a New York Times article

On February 1, Elliot Ackerman, a nonresident senior fellow at Forward Defense, published a piece in the New York Times that discussed the hundreds of remaining Afghan refugees, especially those who assisted US and allied forces, still struggling to find a new home abroad. In the opinion piece, Ackerman argued that accepting the “stranded” Afghans […]

T.X. Hammes proposes containerized weapons for US Navy merchant fleet in US Naval Institute Proceedings

On February 3, T.X. Hammes, a nonresident senior fellow at Forward Defense, wrote with Captain R. Robinson Harris, US Navy (ret.) in the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings, that deploying containerized weapons on merchant ships would bolster the US Navy’s capacity to manage the growing threat from China.

Charai in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune: President Trump: Kuwait Should Be Next!

By Atlantic Council

McNamara published in Pell Center series on espionage of US intellectual property

By Atlantic Council

On February 5th, Whitney McNamara, nonresident senior fellow at Forward Defense, published a piece in the Pell Center’s series on China’s widespread espionage targeting critical intellectual property threatens US economic and military power.