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February 29, 2016

Cybersecurity
Paying Ransom on Ransomware Should be Illegal

Two weeks ago, a California hospital paid $17,000 to cyber criminals who had broken into its computer network and taken its data hostage. The attackers used ransomware, a type of malicious software, …

Kim Dotcom CFR Cyber Net Politics

February 2, 2012

China
China’s Diplomacy 2.0 and Hu Xijin

This week the China-watching twitterverse was surprised to discover that Hu Xijin, the editor of the Global Times, was now tweeting. That the editor of the Global Times, an "angry government mouthpie…

Hu Xijin's Tweet on January 31, 2012.  (Hu Xijin/Courtesy Twitter)

February 2, 2012

Pakistan
U.S.-Pakistan Relations: The Year Past, The Year Ahead

Join Steve Coll, Robert Grenier, and Daniel Markey for a look at the past year of changes in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship and recommendations for moving forward. This meeting reconvenes three membe…

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October 19, 2011

United States
TWE Remembers: The Battle of Yorktown

  As anyone who has ever watched “The Simpsons” knows, Americans like to make fun of French military prowess—or the supposed lack thereof. But today is a day to remember that the United States is …

Battle of Yorktown

July 16, 2021

Wars and Conflict
Five Movies Worth Watching About Love and War

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about romance amid conflict.

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: Casablanca (black and white, a man and a woman look at each other); A Farewell to Arms (a man and woman look worriedly off to the side); The English Patient (a man and woman look off to the side, a desert and airplane behind them).