WORLD ROUNDUP – 16-22 SEPTEMBER 2024Rethinking Economic Warfare with China | Inside Israel’s History of Inventive Assassination Methods | ‘Too Early’ for an Asian NATO | What Does Viktor Orban Want in Africa?, and more

Published 21 September 2024

CHINA WATCH

·  China Should Worry About Europe if It Attacks Taiwan

·  China-Connected Spamouflage impersonated Dutch Cartoonist

·  China Sanctions 9 U.S. Firms Over Military Sales to Taiwan

·  China’s Influence Campaign Intensifies as U.S. Election Nears

·  Rethinking Economic Warfare with China

·  The Chinese Chipmaker at the Heart of the U.S.-China Tech War

·  Poliovirus That Infected a Chinese Child in 2014 May Have Leaked from a Lab

·  Are New U.S. Export Controls Rules on Chips and Other Critical Tech Good Enough?

MIDDLE EAST

·  Pagers Atack Brings to Life Long-Feared Supply Chain Threat

·  How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

·  Hezbollah Pager Attack Latest: British-Educated Woman Denies Making Devices

·  Inside Israel’s History of Inventive Assassination Methods

·  Lebanon Attack: Mossad’s History of Unlikely Explosives

·  The Terrible Blunder That Exposed Hezbollah’s Fighters to Audacious Pager Attack

·  Israel’s Strategic Win

·  The Mystery of Hezbollah’s Deadly Exploding Pagers

·  The Crude System of Coded Messages Keeping Hamas’s Leader Alive

·  How Dangerous Is the Islamist Victory in Jordan’s Elections?

·  Could the Gaza War Revitalize Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Middle East?

·  Netanyahu Is Playing into Khamenei’s Hands

·  Israel and the Coming Long War

·  The ‘Fabrications’ and Resignations that Plunged The Jewish Chronicle into Crisis

THE LONG VIEW

·  A New Era in Sabotage: Turning Ordinary Devices into Grenades, on a Mass Scale

·  The Private Sector Won’t Save America’s Indo-Pacific Policy

·  ‘Too Early’ for an Asian NATO: U.S. Official

·  The Worrying Nuclearization of Northeast Asia

·  Russian Army to Overtake U.S. as World’s Second Largest

·  Global Democracy Continues to Decline, Says Watchdog

·  German Police Reintroduce Spot Controls at All Borders

MORE PICKS

·  Backlash Erupts Over Europe’s Anti-Deforestation Law

·  Europe’s New Defense Chief: ‘A King Without a Kingdom’?

·  What Does Viktor Orban Want in Africa?

·  Washington and the West Struggle for a Way Forward with Putin’s Russia

·  U.S. General Explains U.S. Movements, Partnerships in West Africa

·  Germany: Number of Refugees Reaches New High in 2024

·  Dutch Demand Opt-Out on EU Migration Rules

·  Two-Tier Justice in Northern Ireland

·  Another Blow to Trudeau: Liberals Lose a Long-Held Seat

·  Narendra Modi Starts Losing Battles

·  Biden’s ‘Escalation Management’ in Ukraine Makes the West Less Safe

·  Germany Begins Expanded Border Controls to Control Migration

CHINA WATCH

China Should Worry About Europe if It Attacks Taiwan  (Agathe Demarais, Foreign Policy)
European Union sanctions would matter more than U.S. ones in a Taiwan war scenario.

China-Connected Spamouflage impersonated Dutch Cartoonist  (Wenhao Ma, VOA News)
China has created a network on X of “spamouflage” accounts, which pretend to be the work of real people but are controlled by robots sending out messages designed to shape public opinion.

China Sanctions 9 U.S. Firms Over Military Sales to Taiwan  (Taejun Kang, RFA)
The U.S. announced on Monday the sale of aircraft spare parts to Taiwan.

China’s Influence Campaign Intensifies as U.S. Election Nears  (Lin Yang, VOA News)
Social media accounts are linked to China’s Spamouflage network — a state-sponsored operation aimed at supporting the Chinese government and undermining its critics.

Rethinking Economic Warfare with China  (Adam Leslie and Mariana Rosado-Rivera, National Interest)
Given China’s approach, the West must recognize the economy as a domain of war and take concrete steps to counter China’s economic warfare while preventing escalation to physical conflict.

The Chinese Chipmaker at the Heart of the U.S.-China Tech War  (Ana SwansonJohn Liu and Paul Mozur, New York Times)
Efforts by the Beijing-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, to break through innovation barriers have landed it in a geopolitical tech battle.

Poliovirus That Infected a Chinese Child in 2014 May Have Leaked from a Lab  (Kai Kupferschmidt, Science)
Samples destined for destruction at a Paris institute trigger a virological “detective story”

Are New U.S. Export Controls Rules on Chips and Other Critical Tech Good Enough?  (Ian J. Stewart, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
There is so much political focus and urgency in addressing contemporary issues that finding the time and energy to rework international export control governance will be a challenge. But  given current global security challenges, now is the time for action.

MIDDLE EAST

Pagers Atack Brings to Life Long-Feared Supply Chain Threat (Eva Dou and Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post)
Everyday electronics rigged to explode reflect the near-impossibility of securing modern, globalized electronics supply chains.

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers  (How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers, New York Times)
The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse. (Cont.)