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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 26/02/2026

What's driving great power competition in the Arctic today? And how do China and Russia perceive President Trump's approach? @ibkardon.bsky.social and @alexgabuev.bsky.social discuss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRs5...

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How China & Russia View Trump’s Greenland Policy

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Jason Davidson @profjwdavidson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

100% I'd also recommend this article from 2025 by @ibkardon.bsky.social and @alexgabuev.bsky.social Annexing Greenland would destroy NATO and NATO allies--Norway, the UK, and Iceland--are necessary for securing the Arctic. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/26/t...

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Trump’s Greenland Obsession Will Not Secure America

Countering Russia and China in the Arctic requires leveraging alliances, not fracturing them.

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This is not unlike PRC regulators deciding that fintech or education prep are no longer viable industries…ask Jack Ma! Not a good model to emulate, but at least in Chinese case they eliminate industries based on national interests, not personal profit or delusions about windfarm autism…

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 13/11/2025

For more from Sheena, @ibkardon.bsky.social, and Cameron Waltz on how China is training police forces across the world, see their latest Carnegie paper: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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China’s Foreign Police Training: A Global Footprint

New data reveal how China’s foreign police training programs have become an integral part of Beijing’s strategy to remake global security.

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 13/08/2025

“Analysts and policymakers are used to thinking about China’s military as a global security actor,” says @sheenagreitens.bsky.social‬. But its internal security apparatus also plays a significant role. Sheena, @ibkardon.bsky.social, and Cameron Waltz explain: youtu.be/X0Vtai8xccE?...

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Inside China’s Global Security Playbook

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 06/08/2025

China’s internal security agencies are using global engagement to legitimize its national security vision via non-military security cooperation. @ibkardon.bsky.social, @sheenagreitens.bsky.social, & Cameron Walz analyze China’s foreign security policy: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under the Global Security Initiative

Global outreach by China’s internal security agencies is expanding. This nonmilitary security diplomacy plays a crucial yet overlooked role in Chinese foreign security policy.

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Jennifer Lind @proflind.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

At Blue Blaze, our Scouted series discusses exciting new work in IR and foreign policy. Tune in Wednesday for our first Scouted podcast—in which I host @sheenagreitens.bsky.social & @ibkardon.bsky.social discussing their work on China as an internal security provider

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 17/07/2025

How should we understand China’s system of party-state capitalism, and what sets it apart from other countries with strong state intervention in the economy? Meg Rithmire discusses on #TheWorldUnpacked with @ibkardon.bsky.social: youtube.com/shorts/Qly5_...

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What Makes China's Party-State Capitalism Different?

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 15/07/2025

Subsea cables carry 95% of the world’s data but are largely invisible in global policy debates. @ibkardon.bsky.social, Jane Munga, and @sophiabesch.bsky.social discuss the geopolitics, economics, and risks surrounding undersea data infrastructure on #TheWorldUnpacked: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJIq...

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The New Geopolitics of Subsea Cables

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 15/07/2025

What are subsea data cables, and why are they important to European security? @sophiabesch.bsky.social explains on the latest #TheWorldUnpacked, with Jane Munga and @ibkardon.bsky.social: youtube.com/shorts/twSI9...

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Subsea Cables and European Security

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 16/07/2025

Why are subsea data cables so critical for Africa's socio-economic future? Jane Munga discusses on the latest #TheWorldUnpacked, with @ibkardon.bsky.social and @sophiabesch.bsky.social: youtube.com/shorts/oArgQ...

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Subsea Cables and Africa's Future

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 17/07/2025

How does capitalism function in China, a party-state that tries to maintain “rule by market” without ceding too much control to private capital? @ibkardon.bsky.social discusses with Meg Rithmire on #TheWorldUnpacked: youtu.be/BMb3S8Jin_A?...

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Now available in video: my chat with @ibkardon.bsky.social about my new book. (And definitely the first podcast I’ve done on nukes that ends in a hug!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjOp...

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Why We All Need to Care About Nukes Again

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 10/06/2025

“The Life of the Party: Past and Present Constraints on the Future of the Chinese Communist Party" Yvonne Chiu, @ibkardon.bsky.social, & Jason M. Kelly’s co-edited publication contains essays from experts on persistent patterns and new developments in Chinese politics since the CCP’s founding.

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

On this 6/4, sharing a new piece out at Irregular Warfare Initiative with @ibkardon.bsky.social on "Does China's Growing Security Outreach Matter?" (Spoiler: Yes.) Grateful to @atwellkyle.bsky.social & the entire IWI team for the chance to share our analysis: irregularwarfare.org/articles/doe...

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Does China’s Growing Security Outreach Matter? Tracing Implications for Irregular Warfare and U.S. Security Cooperation

More countries are turning to both the U.S. and China for different types of security support. Learn what “security hybridization” means and why it matters.

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 27/05/2025

President Trump’s desire to “get” Greenland isn’t keeping the U.S. secure. By working with – not against – its allies, Washington can counter Russia and China in the Arctic. @ibkardon.bsky.social‬ and @alexgabuev.bsky.social‬ explain for @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/26/t...

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Trump’s Greenland Obsession Will Not Secure America

Countering Russia and China in the Arctic requires leveraging alliances, not fracturing them.

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Appreciate the extensive quotations and use of my data in this excellent article, which puts the Panama Canal ports in their proper global context. context. We are still waiting for the other shoe to drop in this maritime mega-deal…watch this space.

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 31/03/2025

President Trump’s efforts to take the Panama Canal may now be in limbo thanks to a Chinese antitrust investigation. Carnegie’s @ibkardon.bsky.social explained for @nytimes.com . Read the full article here: buff.ly/FkEMSR2

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Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

CK Hutchison is accused of "disregarding national interests and national justice and betraying and selling out all Chinese people" over its sale of Panama Canal ports to US. firm BlackRock in a state media commentary posted by China's Hong Kong and Macao office. www.hmo.gov.cn/sgazx/gayw/2...

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

With co-author @marsecbradford.bsky.social maritime guru at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Just published this short piece on the big Panama Canal port deal and implications for US-China (maritime) competition, and the middle powers squeezed in between. BLUF: BlackRock acquired a huge port-folio of port terminals, planting US flag in a long-neglected sector. rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...

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IP25026 | American Consortium’s Purchase of Hong Kong-Owned Port Terminals Has Implications Far Beyond Panama

SYNOPSIS The announcement that the American consortium BlackRock will be buying Hong Kong CK Hutchison’s port operations business has been heralded as a success in support of President Donald Trump’s ...

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Fascinating piece from @ibkardon.bsky.social and @sheenagreitens.bsky.social on US-Chinese rivalry www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Of course, the US has no recognizable claims on the Canal, nor has it been 'reclaimed' - but this is a seismic shift in the global commercial maritime landscape. Hutchison is selling off its Panama holdings - and also another 41 terminals in 22 countries. Big deal!! www.reuters.com/markets/asia...

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CK Hutchison shares jump 22% after Panama Canal stake sale to BlackRock

CK Hutchison stock gained more than 22% on Wednesday after the Hong Kong conglomerate sold a majority stake in a $22.8 billion ports unit, including assets along the Panama Canal, to a group led by U.S. buyout firm BlackRock .

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Excited to share my latest piece with @sheenagreitens.bsky.social, just out with International Security: Quarterly Journal (doi.org/10.1162/isec...). Builds on our prior work in @foreignaffairs.com (www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...) Paywalled for now, but here's the gist: (1/6)

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Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry

Many countries get external security from Washington—and internal security from Beijing.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Delighted to see Dr. Chestnut Greitens’ much anticipated book arrive!

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Caught in the act. Taiwan’s coastguard said it caught a Chinese-owned freighter cutting a subsea communications cable off its western coast early on Tuesday. www.ft.com/content/eb4a...

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Taiwan catches Chinese-owned ship in act of cutting subsea cable

Confrontation comes after Taipei launched crackdown on Beijing’s ‘shadow fleet’

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As a result, more & more countries want security assistance from both US and China, and are well-positioned to take advantage of each great power's differentiated strengths. This is a moving target and warrants further studies on PRC bilateral security relationships. (6/6)

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"Regime security" is China's fundamental goal, at home and for partners abroad; America's security outreach, by contrast, seeks to produce "regional security." (Even as the current administration walks back certain commitments in this vein, the basic architecture remains). (5/6)

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

China's security cooperation keys on its partners' internal and non-traditional threats, prioritizing action against threats to authoritarian efforts to control their populations and to repress & intimidate their political opposition. (4/6)

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We see the rise of "security hybridization" as a consequential phenomenon in the contemporary international security environment, wherein states seek security from China and the US simultaneously, but not symmetrically. (3/6)

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We argue that the global security landscape has been shifting under our feet. If there is a "cold war" with China, it bears little resemblance to the "Cold War" with the Soviet Union - and not only because of dramatically higher levels of economic integration between US and its main adversary. (2/6)

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Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry

Many countries get external security from Washington—and internal security from Beijing.

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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So Adani (which had its DFC funding pulled due to US corruption against its owner) still got a better deal at Colombo than China Merchants? Go figure… www.maritimegateway.com/slpas-collab...

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