2024 Issue 30

New evidence on how Hong Kong aids Russia, Iran, and North Korea with evading sanctions and technology controls and a report by Hugo Bromley and Eyck Freymann at the Hoover Institution on economic contingency planning for a PRC attack on Taiwan.

The Chinese Communist Party restricts teachers, students, bankers and anyone with access to sensitive information on China from leaving the country, just as the U.S. Department of Justice prosecutes a Chinese national for smuggling in fentanyl that could kill millions of Americans.

Commentary from CSIS on the Third Plenum and reports that the PRC and Russian militaries are conducting combined patrols with nuclear capable bombers just off the coast of Alaska.