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China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline

The territory aims to prove that a non-free society can be a global financial hub

The War Room newsletter: Did a Russian weapon spook Trump?

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, talks missile protection—in Yorkshire

What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?

Europe must offer Ukraine a big enough financial package to deter the Kremlin

Risky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: L3Harris Trenchant b...

Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating

The view from Canada, as Trumpian threats fly

China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s f...

Risky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: China has been rumma...

Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen

Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the F5 hack

In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the F5 incide...

The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, looks at an espionage fiasco in Britain

The icy cold war America is busy losing

Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska

Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: FBI intervenes in Sc...

China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump

Xi Jinping’s bet that dramatic escalation is the way to win a trade war

Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

Years of expeditionary operations leave it vulnerable if America abandons the continent

The Economist today newsletter: What happens when migrants stop coming?

We are witnessing a turning point in migration, writes Adam Roberts, our digital editor

Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week...

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Secret Se...

A made-in-China plan for world domination

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

The UN’s grim future 

Going rogue, decay or Trumpification

Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Shai-Hulud worm prop...

Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia

Top Gun—without Maverick

Drones ride into the danger zone

Risky Business #806 -- Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement is a big deal

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Apple ruins exploit ...

Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance

For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour

Ukraine has been trying to bring the war to Russia. More Russians are beginning to feel it

America owes the Philippines more than empty praise