CHINA WATCHChinese Subsidiary of British Investment Bank Now Includes Communist Party Committee By Lin Yang Liam Scott Published 3 August 2022 British bank and financial services giant HSBC, a longtime presence in East Asia, has become the first foreign lender to install a Chinese Communist Party committee in its investment banking subsidiary in China. British bank

ENERGY SECURITYGermany Mulls U-Turn on Nuclear Phaseout By Richard Connor Published 3 August 2022 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has raised the possibility of lengthening the life of the country’s nuclear power stations. Berlin’s decision to get rid of the plants has come under question amid energy security concerns. The German chancellor on Wednesday said it might

CHINA WATCHChinese Subsidiary of British Investment Bank Now Includes Communist Party Committee By Lin Yang Liam Scott Published 3 August 2022 British bank and financial services giant HSBC, a longtime presence in East Asia, has become the first foreign lender to install a Chinese Communist Party committee in its investment banking subsidiary in China. British bank

TERRORISMU.S. Kills Al-Qaida Leader Aymen al-Zawahiri By Anita Powell and Ayaz Gul Published 1 August 2022 In a rare counterterrorism operation over the weekend, U.S. forces killed top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was deputy to the terror group’s founder, Osama bin Laden, when they orchestrated the September 2001 attacks against the U.S. The United States

WAR IN UKRAINEMight Russia Turn to Terror Bombing Civilians in Ukraine? By Karl P. Mueller Published 1 August 2022 Recent Russian missile attacks against civilian targets in cities far away from the front lines have killed scores of Ukrainians, leading to widespread outrage. These events raise the question of whether the war in Ukraine is

EXTREMISMTexan Who Prosecutors Say “Lit the Match” of Jan. 6 Riot Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Prison By Eric Neugeboren Published 1 August 2022 Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old Wylie resident, never entered the Capitol but helped ignite the crowd “into an unstoppable force,” a prosecutor at his trial said. His sentence is the

ENCRYPTIONA Key Role for Quantum Entanglement Published 1 August 2022 A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists, including ETH physicists, has now demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, an approach to quantum key distribution that uses high-quality quantum

DISASTER EVACUATIONEvacuating Outside the Lines Published 1 August 2022 Researchers at the University of Tsukuba show how extending evacuation options to shelters outside the borders of a city can help increase the efficiency of flood responses, which may reduce the disruption caused by natural disasters. Tsukuba, Japan—Scientists from the Division of Policy and Planning Sciences at

ARGUMENT: SECURING ENCRYPTIONHack Post-Quantum Cryptography Now So That Bad Actors Don’t Do It Later Published 1 August 2022 In February, the cryptography community was stunned when a researcher claimed that an algorithm that might become a cornerstone of the next generation of internet encryption can be cracked mathematically using a single laptop. Edward Parker and

THE RUSSIA CONNECTIONU.S. Imposes Sanctions, Files Charges Over Russian Influence Campaign Published 30 July 2022 U.S. authorities have charged a Russian national with recruiting political groups in the United States to sow discord, spread pro-Moscow propaganda, and interfere with U.S. elections. Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a Russian national, has been charged with “foreign malign influence campaign”