The #Tracker - your weekly #ObservingChina newsletter is out now!
💻 Cyber expert warns that 🇬🇧 should brace for more cyberattacks from 🇨🇳
🏥 Medical data of 🇬🇧 citizens listed for sale on 🇨🇳 website
🇯🇵 joins annual military exercises near 🇹🇼 for the first time
Yesterday, we hosted a #GeostrategyForum at The In & Out (Naval and Military Club)
We were delighted to be joined by Maj. Gen. J.R.S. Boivin OMM MSC CD, Deputy Commander, Canadian Army, to discuss the Canadian Army’s warfighting transformation and the evolving demands of the defence of 🇨🇦
Yesterday, we hosted a #WhitehallBriefing at the In and Out (Naval and Military Club)
We were delighted to be joined by Helen Walker-Fleming, Deputy Head Strategy, National Security Secretariat, to discuss strategic indispensability in a geopolitically volatile era 🌍
Strengthening 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 naval cooperation across #NATO’s northern flank ⚓
Yesterday, we were delighted to partner with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung UK & Ireland to host a timely discussion on how 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 can more effectively support their shared maritime interests.
This week, we are proud to celebrate five years of the Council on Geostrategy!
💡 Here is a look at the numbers behind our impact.
We look forward to continuing to shape Britain’s strategic ambition in a more competitive geopolitical era over the next five years and beyond!
What has Beijing learnt from the near-closure of the #StraitofHormuz?
We asked 5 experts in today’s #Tangram
✍️ @george17.bsky.social, Andrew Yeh, Owen Au, @gracetheodoulou.bsky.social, @willfreer.bsky.social
#ObservingChina
The true revelation from the crisis is not 🇺🇸 military strength, but 🇨🇳 economic resilience and diplomatic agility
✍️ @james-rogers.bsky.social unpacks how 🇨🇳 has leveraged the standoff in the #StraitofHormuz to its advantage, and what lessons 🇬🇧 should draw from this
@theipaper.com
Is 🇬🇧 overly subservient to international law?
We asked 7 experts in today’s #BigAsk
✍️ Dr Hillary Briffa, Brig. (rtd.) Rory Copinger-Symes CBE, Deniz Güzel, David Landsman OBE, Dr Timothy Less, Danielle Reeder, The Rt. Hon. Anne-Marie Trevelyan
#BritainsWorld
While long-term defence partnerships like #AUKUS and #GCAP will deliver significant combat capabilities, we can’t let them distract from the need for deterrence today
🔗 Read the new #Primer by Dr Euan Graham and Patrick Triglavcanin: www.geostrategy.org....
#IndoPacificProject
Evidence from the Council on Geostrategy featured in the Foreign Affairs Committee report on foreign interference
✍️ @gracetheodoulou.bsky.social, our International Fellow, highlighted growing 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 coordination on disinformation and how 🇨🇳 is tailoring disinformation for each target country.
Six training objectives for #AI enabled systems the British Armed Forces should implement immediately 👇
👉 Read the latest analysis for The #Broadside by Dr Robert Johnson, our Honorary Fellow, published in partnership with Capita Plc
Long-term defence industrial investments like #AUKUS and #GCAP generate significant combat capabilities, but risk distracting from deterrence today.
Read our latest #Primer by Dr Euan Graham and @p-triglavcanin.bsky.social 👇
#IndoPacificProject
🇬🇧 must procure cost-effective vessels and counter sub-threshold threats to protect its Overseas Territories and prevent the erosion of its global influence
👉 Read the #Memorandum for #BritainsWorld by @robinpotter.bsky.social
Is the Moon the new high ground for global competition? 🌑
Gabriel Elefteriu FRAeS, our Senior Research Fellow in Space Power, joins @channel4news.bsky.social Fourcast podcast to reveal the geostrategic motivations behind the #ArtemisII mission
🇷🇺 strategic intent remains the dismantling of the European security architecture.
✍️ Read the latest analysis for @theipaper.com by @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founder (Research)
‘The answer to the question must be “yes”. Slavery is a critically important question, but the way it was posed before the UN was badly misguided,’ writes Martin Plaut, University of London
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
🗣️ ‘The refusal even to begin a conversation is denting 🇬🇧 moral leadership, creating distrust, and preventing the formation of sorely needed new alliances,’ says @alanlester.bsky.social, University of Sussex
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
‘🇬🇧 abstention on the #UN vote on slavery reparations is a political choice. It is not a principled position. It is an evasion,’ writes @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, @uaces.bsky.social
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
✍️ ‘It would be against all the principles of English and Scottish law to criminalise retrospectively something that was once legal,’ argues Prof. Lawrence Goldman FRHistS, @ox.ac.uk
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Was 🇬🇧 right to abstain from the #UN vote on slavery reparations?
We asked 4 experts for their take in this week’s #BigAsk
✍️ Prof. Lawrence Goldman FRHistS, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, @alanlester.bsky.social, Martin Plaut
#BritainsWorld
📣 To expose Beijing's attempts to portray itself as a global peacemaker, the international community must challenge 🇨🇳 to publicly renounce the use of force against 🇹🇼.
Read the latest #Thinker from #ObservingChina by Gray Sergeant, our Research Fellow
We are excited to announce that @covertshores.bsky.social is joining us as an Adjunct Fellow!
🔗 Read the full announcement here: www.geostrategy.org....
Your weekly People’s Republic of China news roundup is out now!
🤝 Tehran asserts that 🇨🇳 pushed them to accept the ceasefire with 🇺🇸
🌌 Joint European and 🇨🇳 space mission for scientific research
💰 Minister of Finance of 🇨🇦 concludes visit to 🇨🇳
#Tracker #ObservingChina
To effectively bolster regional security, 🇬🇧 and its allies must overcome fragmented defence spending by using #JEF framework to aggregate demand and collectively procure through the #NATO Support and Procurement Agency
🌍 Read the #Memorandum from #BritainsWorld
The 🇺🇸-🇮🇷 #ceasefire is not synonymous with peace.
✍️ @willfreer.bsky.social, our Research Fellow, unpacks the geopolitics of the 🇺🇸-🇮🇷 ceasefire, exploring operational capability, political resolve, and public narrative
@lbc.co.uk
The #Tracker - your weekly 🇨🇳 update - is out now!
📝 Joint statement from 🇮🇷 and 🇨🇳 on Middle East peace
🌏 Chairwoman of 🇹🇼 main opposition party accepts invitation for 🇨🇳 visit
🚢 Two 🇨🇳-flagged ships transit #StraitofHormuz
Read the full briefing in #ObservingChina 👇
🇬🇧 should reclaim its role as Europe’s indispensable ‘offshore balancer’, leveraging its advantage in entrepreneurship, orbital launch capability, and subsea infrastructure
Read Dominic Selby’s latest #Memorandum for #BritainsWorld
As the 🇷🇺 threat in the #HighNorth escalates, 🇬🇧 should lead the Joint Expeditionary Force in building a unified Anti-Access/Area Denial shield to bolster NATO's collective deterrence
⚓ Read the #Memorandum by @bbaxendalesmith.bsky.social, our Adjunct Fellow, in #BritainsWorld
UK and Germany should collaborate to build a sovereign, European-led sub-strategic nuclear deterrent within the #NATO framework to deter Russian aggression.
💡 Read the latest #Memorandum by @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founder (Research), for #BritainsWorld
💡 ‘Major conflict in Europe fundamentally alters 🇬🇧 threat calculus...🇷🇺 full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 has broken previous assertions that conventional mass capability was a thing of the past,’ says Dr Anisa Heritage, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
#BritainsWorld #StrategicDefenceUnit