2025 Issue 31

Michael Kovrig, the Canadian citizen who was held hostage by the Chinese Communist Party for 1,019 days writes that foreign nationals are “playing a kind of Chinese roulette” if the visit the PRC as the CCP “ruthlessly uses foreign citizens as bargaining chips” to coerce foreign governments.

The Economist criticizes the Trump Administration for easing up on AI chip export controls, primarily impacting Nvidia’s chips, at exactly the wrong time, a concern echoed by national security professionals on both sides of the political spectrum.

And as Nvidia weathers criticism in the United States for placing profits before national security, the PRC’s cyber regulators have summoned Nvidia’s representatives in the PRC to assure them that the chips do not pose a security risk.

The Wall Street Journal releases an investigative journalism piece into the deadly rise nitazenes, a more potent form of synthetic opioids than fentanyl that come almost entirely from the PRC and are killing more Europeans each year.

Senator Roger Wicker, the Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee will lead a bipartisan delegation to Taiwan to speak with Taiwanese leaders about the security threats facing them and their plans on defense modernization in the face of an increasingly aggressive Communist China.