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Dec 17, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
Russia has recently become less discreet and more aggressive in its "gray zone" attacks on NATO countries. Cutting subsea data cables linking European nations is one option in Moscow's broader toolkit of hybrid aggression. It is especially effective in the Baltic Sea, which is a strategically important waterway that sees a tremendous amount of ship traffic. Moscow did not disguise its ire when Finland and Sweden decided to join NATO.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
United States President-elect Donald Trump is assembling an extraordinary administration. In its upper ranks at least, looks likely to resemble a convocation of China hawks. They would do well to take note of a recent analysis of differing opinions in middle-power countries about the challenges China poses to the US and its allies.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
The United States and other Western nations are increasingly the target of cyberattacks and corporate espionage by a number of threat actors from around the world. Foremost among these is China. Michael C. Casey, director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center, recently spoke at the 2024 CNBC CEO Council Summit in Washington, DC. At the summit, Casey revealed that China continues to be the most serious threat in terms of corporate espionage.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
The shocking incident in which a young Japanese schoolchild was fatally stabbed on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen at the end of September has received considerable attention. Not just in Japan, but attention in China as well. A month later, the research center Carnegie China published an online commentary titled The Commercialization of Cyber Nationalism in China.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek this July, American presidential candidate Donald Trump said: "Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we're no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn't give us anything. Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It's 68 miles from China." Last of two partsRead Part 1: Scorn China Expertise at Your Own PerilThe fate of Taiwan might not concern Trump that much. However, Japan likely sees the situation through a very different lens.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
"We are now in the foothills of a great power hot war." This is a recent declaration by Matt Pottinger, a China expert who served as deputy national security advisor in the Trump Administration. Pottinger is now a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. First of two partsChina is engaged in the largest military buildup since World War II. That is especially true for the Chinese navy.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
On August 5, Shujun Wang, a 75-year-old naturalized United States citizen was convicted in Brooklyn federal court of acting as an unregistered agent for China. He was accused of providing information on pro-democracy activists to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS). First in a series on China's United Front"The indictment could have been the plot of a spy novel, but the evidence is shockingly real," according to Breon Peace. He is the US District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | John Carroll
Until the armed forces of Ukraine launched their lightning foray into Russian territory in early August, many observers had concluded that Kyiv's prospects for maintaining control of much of its national territory were bleak. Close to half a million invading Russian troops were continuing to inexorably press forward along the more than 1,000km-long (620-mile) front line like a plague of locusts.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Carroll |Jonathan Clark |Stephen Fox
On July 3, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered a limited, preliminary injunction barring the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its controversial Final Rule (“Rule”) which purports to ban almost all non-compete agreements. Importantly, Judge Brown’s preliminary order only enjoined enforcement of the Final Rule against the named plaintiffs who opposed it.
