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Isaac Stone Fish

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Past articles by Isaac:

China’s hostage diplomacy and the depths of Huawei’s state links

Huawei serves the Chinese Communist Party, and the party helps Huawei. → Read More

Why does everyone assume that Russia and China are friends?

Moscow has good reason to beware the ambitions of its "ally" to the east. → Read More

Beijing wants U.S. business leaders to plead its case. Here’s why they shouldn’t.

American CEOs are wading into dangerous territory. → Read More

The Chinese Communist Party just showed Jack Ma — and the rest of us — who’s boss

Even one of the world's wealthiest businessmen can't stand up to the power of the party. → Read More

America’s maps are still filled with racist place names

It's time to ditch the 'Chinaman' label. → Read More

Why Disney’s new ‘Mulan’ is a scandal

The company's desire to please Beijing means ignoring a genocide. → Read More

Why can’t the world do a better job of calling out racism in China?

The pull of the Chinese market is warping the moral standards of the international community. → Read More

Why do we keep treating China as a source of reliable information?

Why China’s coronavirus statistics should always come with an asterisk. → Read More

Why China is picking on American journalists

Beijing has honed a strategy of feints and misdirections for decades. → Read More

Even if Trump trusts Huawei, here’s why America shouldn’t

China's telecoms giant is trying to hide its ties to the military. → Read More

North Koreans are starving. Shouldn’t we do something?

Pyongyang’s crimes against its own people do not absolve those who can help but don’t. → Read More

China has access to Grindr activity. We should all be worried.

The social media app gives Beijing myriad opportunities for blackmail. → Read More

MBS should stand with the Uighurs in China

Criticizing China’s treatment of Uighurs would raise awareness of the issue throughout the Muslim world. → Read More

How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China

A million Uighurs are being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang. What can the US do? → Read More

A Chinese company’s surprising ties to the Brookings Institution

Electronics giant Huawei has cultivated a close relationship with a leading Washington think tank. → Read More

Yes, the U.S. is in bad shape. But China shows what real authoritarianism looks like.

The United States, for all its troubles, is still a long way from becoming a dictatorship -- or a failed democracy. → Read More

Is America Over-Reacting to the Threat of Chinese Influence?

American civil and political discourse has seen a growing number of reports about worrying Chinese governmental influence in the United States. Most recently, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence decried the “malign influence” of China in the United States, via students, politicians, and corporations acting at Beijing’s direction, and sometimes with Beijing’s money. And the White House reportedly… → Read More

Dear Nobel Committee: Don’t even think about giving a prize to Kim Jong Un

It would make a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize. → Read More

Why are U.S. companies working for a Chinese firm that’s implicated in ethnic cleansing?

Congress is starting to wonder. → Read More

How a restriction on Chinese-made subway cars makes life harder for commuters

The story of a protectionist measure that doesn't protect anyone. → Read More