Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Sharing a new piece in @ForeignAffairs: Xi is pursuing a preventive grand strategy centered on regime security. But in CCP thinking, ostensibly defensive ends at home require increasingly assertive behavior abroad: foreignaffairs.com/china/xis-secu…

Update: Taiwanese voters appear to be rejecting *all* the recalls, in what looks to be the biggest electoral win for the KMT since 2018

“Whatever the reasons for the recent purges, they will almost certainly degrade China’s combat readiness and the Chinese leadership’s confidence in the PLA’s capabilities.” Great analysis by ⁦@fravel⁩ foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-m…

Look forward to reading this - and to hosting @heguisen in Austin for a book talk with @AsiaPolicyUT this coming academic year!

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

The posthumous retrial of Kim Jae-gyu, spy chief who assassinated Park Chung-hee, begins this week. A reflection back on Korea’s military-authoritarian period: bbc.com/news/articles/…

Presenting our Summer 2025 roundup! A thread of all the articles from our latest issue. 🧵 tnsr.org/latest-print-i…

⁦1/ @ZackCooper:⁩ “It is very difficult to get allies to provide specifics about what they would do in a Taiwan conflict when they don’t know either the scenario’s context or America’s own response.” on.ft.com/44q2D5J

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This is important from @Dimi because it gets at a core expectation gap that could split the US from key Pacific allies. In 25 years, I never thought I would write a piece with the words "crisis" and "US-Australia alliance" side by side. Last month, I did. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/06/…

Quite the operation:

Delighted to talk with Jon Finer, Ben Jebb, & Jackie Giunta @IrregWarfare about China's growing security outreach (based on the recent @IntSecJournal article with @IBKardon). Podcast here: irregularwarfare.org/podcasts/secur…

Why is being a journal that's open to different types of research so important? Scholar Daryl Press explains why TNSR is such a vital outlet for the national security community.

This should be a huge scandal: Spain government paid 12 mill € to China’s Huawei to manage the storage of court ordered police wiretaps. The recordings are stored at OveanStor severs developed by the Chinese tech company. Spanish law enforcement agencies have expressed concern.

Under the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine with few parallels in modern times. Now it is giving up its secrets. wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ

I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters, who were at the summer camp, in the disaster caused by flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.

This week, the Dalai Lama didn’t mention China in his statement, but said that the responsibility for finding his successor rested solely with his office, the Gaden Phodrang Trust, and that “no one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter.” wsj.com/world/the-dala…

.@HerbLinCyber has five principles he believes should guide the responsible application of #AI in a nuclear weapons context. Read more in the @TXNatSecReview ↘️ ow.ly/xmah50WhcHw

Besides the expulsion of Miao, which was expected, what is more noteworthy is the expulsion of Vice Admiral Li Hanjun, chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army Navy, and Liu Shipeng, deputy chief engineer at state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation, from the National…

【🇨🇳Safeguarding National Security II🇭🇰】 EP4️⃣Common Tactic of Colour Revolutions—Online Radicalisation A young woman recalls how radical msgs online brainwashed her into breaking the law amid the 2019 riots & how society & her family helped her start afresh upon her imprisonment…

“Ancient cities reimagined for contemporary visitors”…. “Reimagined” meaning this demolition of Kashgar’s old city, @PrincetonUPress?