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Cipher Brief Analysis: If the U.S. Doesn’t
Get China Right, Nothing Else Will Matter
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General Michael Hayden, the co-host of The Cipher Brief’s
Annual Threat Conference for the past two years,
has famously said that the world has been more dangerous in the past,
but it has never been more complicated.
He has also said
that if the U.S. doesn’t get China right, nothing else will
matter.
- This week, we spoke
with Christopher Johnson, who holds the Freeman Chair in
China Studies at CSIS. He is one of
the most respected analytic voices on the China issue and has
served as a senior China analyst with the CIA as well as in the
U.S. government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities,
advising senior White House officials, cabinet officials,
congressional and military leaders.
- Today, he’s briefing
us. With China and the U.S. generating consistent
headlines over trade issues, espionage allegations, a massive
technology race, lunar landings and military build-ups, we asked
Johnson to brief us on what he sees as the key aspects of the
U.S.-China relationship and why it’s important to get it right.
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Cipher Brief Expert Take: What a Safe
Zone in Syria Would Actually Look Like
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A senior Kurdish official has dismissed the idea of
creating a 20-mile wide safe zone in Syria presented by Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, something that Erdogan says would
require both logistical and financial support from the U.S. and other
allies.
- The idea of creating
the zone comes as the U.S. works out logistics of a troop
withdrawal.
- Cipher Brief Expert
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt (Ret.), who worked as the
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs as
well as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle
East Affairs, lays out the real-time issues that would be
created by a safe zone.
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