Sanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short.

The same architecture of surveillance and control underpins China's presence in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong, built on procurement networks designed to stay a step ahead of…

Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...

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Leaked documents reveal over 50 Russian defense companies operating Western industrial high-precision machinery — produced by Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden — to manufacture weapons used against…

Ablet Turdi and Erk Altay EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Chinese government has built an integrated digital surveillance apparatus in East Turkestan (officially called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) as…

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You are warmly invited to join the launch of our latest report, titled Through the cracks: How loopholes in U.S. sanctions let western investors pour billions into China’s military-industrial…

C4ADS has released vtrr-queue, an open-source Python library built for Bring Your Own Data, which allows investigators to upload their own files and search them alongside Horizons’ billions of public…

Despite years of Western export controls, restricted NVIDIA AI chips continue to reach China. New C4ADS analysis maps those active pathways, including university acquisitions, Southeast Asian…

Russia, Europe’s most powerful nuclear-armed military, is quietly building a security network across North and West Africa, linking Algeria and Haftar-controlled Libya with Mali, Burkina Faso and…

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Introduction In December 2025, the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) held elections for its Eighth Term, and the Members began serving in January 2026. This is the second LegCo Term following…

A model built for maps, not institutionsFor most of the modern interdiction era, the cocaine corridor has been understood as a line on a map: a sequence of depa

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Un rapport de l’ONG américaine C4ADS lève le voile sur la logistique aérienne d’Africa Corps. Sept compagnies, dont des opérateurs publics russes et africains, alimentent les bases au Mali, au…

Analyzing 19 months of flight-tracking data, C4ADS identified 75 flights resupplying Russian state-aligned military operations in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — revealing a logistics network that…

DHS, on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), announced the addition of 43 companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, as well as technical updates…

C4ADS launches Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on Horizons, enabling users to upload their own files and search them alongside 3+ billion public records in one private, access-controlled workspace.

Analyzing 19 months of flight-tracking data, C4ADS identified 75 flights resupplying Russian state-aligned military operations in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — revealing a logistics network that…

C4ADS launches Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on Horizons, enabling users to upload their own files and search them alongside 3+ billion public records in one private, access-controlled workspace.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has long been plagued by accusations of corruption, fraud, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation — now, a combination of Chinese BRI, corporate,…

C4ADS launches Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on Horizons, enabling users to upload their own files and search them alongside 3+ billion public records in one private, access-controlled workspace.

C4ADS welcomes General (Ret.) Charles A. Flynn — a 39-year Army veteran and former Commanding General of U.S. Army Pacific — to our Board of Directors.

C4ADS has released followthemoney-neomodel, an open-source tool that automatically converts the Follow the Money data standard into Python classes for Neo4j, letting analysts build and query…

C4ADS launches Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on Horizons, enabling users to upload their own files and search them alongside 3+ billion public records in one private, access-controlled workspace.

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Donald Trump can’t seem to decide whether or not he wants China to have access to chip supplies – but in the interim, China is setting up its own markets.

C4ADS launches Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) on Horizons, enabling users to upload their own files and search them alongside 3+ billion public records in one private, access-controlled workspace.

Since 2019, a China-based fleet of at least 56 supertankers has funneled more than 400 million barrels of illicit oil between high-risk states like China, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela — now, Oil &…

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