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...

Much to the surprise of absolutely no-one.

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…

Editor’s Note: Following the publication of this article, the Beijing Times published an editorial with the headline “Beijing Times Clarifies Independence: No Ties to the Chinese Government, Ending…

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE A National Business Book Award Summer Reading List selection: The Canadian Deep Dive (Politics, Policy & Power) A Hill Times’ Top 100 Best...

Investigates how Chinese state entities have compromised British business and politics at the highest levels.

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

An invisible drug kingpin was just found. So what? Use code searchparty at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: https://incogni.com/searchparty Europe’s most wanted…

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…

Despite ongoing efforts to derisk supply chains, the global pharmaceutical industry continues to rely heavily on active pharmaceutical ingredients and other related products manufactured in XUAR…

In this analysis, we examine and map the relationships between Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region-based mines reliant on forced labor and global networks of finance and trade — including hundreds of…

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.